cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39410719
Error when trying to install Bazzite specifically
I get the following error message:
amd_pstate: failed to register with return -19
And there's more but then the screen turns into a creepy pasta gif looking thing of white and green shifting blocks, except for a few random letters.
But the issue doesn't happen when I used a Garuda xfce I had laying around I used for an older PC (that was maybe too old for Bazzite?). That went into the installer and live iso environment without issues.
It's a newish build I'm making for someone as a gift with the following hardware:
Asus Prime B550M-K AM4 microATX Kingston FURY Beast DDR4 3600 MHz AMD Ryzen 5 4500 AM4
And a used Nvidia RTX 3060ti.
I have secure boot off I think (the Asus EZ bios is weird)
Update
I managed to install it using the text installer, but now it does this:
Then blank screen. Ctrl-Alt-F2 gives me a terminal at least and I did just get-logs which gives me the following:
Is this a Wayland issue?
Update 2:
Not a Wayland issue. But tried installing Fedora Kiinoite to rebase it to Bazzite, but Fedora has the same issue Bazzite did when trying to install, only it doesn't mention the Elf 19 error, and it frezzes allowing me to take a picture:
I really love Bazzite and run it on my own computer, but I'm starting to think it doesn't really run on older desktop hardware.
Jump on the Discourse if possible. https://universal-blue.discourse.group/c/bazzite/5
Looking through those centos logs it's an Nividia firmware issue linked with their open-drivers
sudo rpm-ostree resetFailing that and the fact you don't have a lot of time I would take the suggestions of just popping Mint, PopOS, CachyOS(you said no arch, but I've had good reliability), PikaOS small team Debian variant of the Linux gaming distros. Give your self a way to be able to jump remotely with their consent like Rustdesk, Tailsacle+Remmina or Teamviewer.
Other immutable/atomics Vanilla OS
NixOS (my current distro and if you're into making and maintaining for friends a great option as you can just make the gaming distro you want and distrubute it to them.)
GLF (French gaming distro based on Nix, I steal their configs for my gaming.nix :D)
Currently trying CachyOS - it's also still blurry, but the installer is currently also blurry similar to Garuda. That said Cachy does at least look much better and offered more option, and will install a CPU microcode which I'm hoping will fix some issues.
Also it's a bit less blurry if I change the setting in my monitor to "aspect".
I just hope it'll work well at it's installed. At least the live iso is running much faster as well.
Cool if you go BTRFS with Limine that will give them snapshots
Works great too! Im having a great cachyos experience so far, switching from mint.