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Friend will have Windows if can't figure this out (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 days ago by Lumisal@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.world
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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.

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[-] LostWanderer@fedia.io 12 points 5 days ago

Eh, honestly, Mint or Ubuntu would be a solid shout in this case. Both Linux distros are easy to use, having a lot of graphical tools that make interacting with the system easier. Steam+Heroic Launcher makes gaming a breeze for me (I'm running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on my gaming+productivity rig).

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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

  1. Clear any layered packages sudo rpm-ostree reset
  2. Rebase to the non-open NVIDIA image
sudo rpm-ostree rebase ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-nvidia:stable

sudo reboot

Failing 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)

[-] Lumisal@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 1 points 5 days ago

Cool if you go BTRFS with Limine that will give them snapshots

[-] Lumisal@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

It was the GPU, but yeah Cachy also looked nice (of what I could see). I especially like the Limine bootloader.

[-] Freakazoid@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

Works great too! Im having a great cachyos experience so far, switching from mint.

[-] Lumisal@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Solved

It's the GPU hardware that was the problem 😭. This post can be closed.

Credit to Clearwater who figured out the real issue early on.

[-] Lumisal@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

From my experience Bazzite is the easiest to use system for gaming on Linux, but I can't install it.

I tested Garuda, but even the Mokka edition I know my friend won't like the aesthetic of, and although it works, for some reason on my monitor it only shows 720p resolution - I don't know why. It even makes the bios go into 720p when it's otherwise fine. But that could be because I have a 2k monitor.

I was going to gift them the PC tomorrow since they leave the country for December, so also running out of time. Willing to try other gaming focused systems too that are very beginner friendly (so no arch recommendations I think - and ideally something immutable)

[-] bruce965@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

I installed Pop!_OS on a pendrive-shaped SSD for my girlfriend. Then I gave it a nice desktop wallpaper and installed Steam + Heroic Launcher. She ended up not using it, though.

If I had to do it again, I would replicate the same setup, but with Linux Mint instead of Pop!_OS.

[-] Lumisal@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

What was the reason? I remember Pop looks pretty nice.

I've had issues when I used to use Mint (from mucking around with dependencies and such granted, and python environments) but I'm short on time so I'll probably try it next. KDE usually looks nicer and controls peripheries better (like screen brightness).

[-] bruce965@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The reason why I'd prefer Mint to Pop!_OS? Because Mint is more "standard". Less surprises between upgrades.

I would say if your friend doesn't know Linux or doesn't need to do anything strange, Mint is a sensible choice, even though it's not immutable as Bazzite.

I like KDE too, but if Bazzite doesn't work and you want something as stable as Bazzite, I would go with Mint.

[-] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 1 points 5 days ago

I can't recommend Mint more. I ran it for years, only switching to Fedora for a newer kernel.

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