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.

  • Peasley@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I think the problem is the insistence on using a gaming-focused OS. Boutique distros can make certain things easier, but they often make unwitting assumptions about hardware that dont actually work for everyone.

    Fedora has probably 10x or more the user base of Bazzite, so there are effectively +/- 10x the variety of of tested builds. Ubuntu/Debian is probably 10x over Fedora, so probably +/- 100x over Bazzite.

    If you want to use Linux with minimal headache, the best advice is to use a mainstream distro with well-tested hardware. If you are building a custom PC you will have the least hassle with 1-2 year old hardware (or older) on Mint or Ubuntu

    • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Hard no, with an Nvidia GPU you absolutely should go for a distro like Bazzite to avoid the driver headache.

      This is a BIOS issue anyway, not a distro issue.

      • AirBreather@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        Hard no, with an Nvidia GPU you absolutely should go for a distro like Bazzite to avoid the driver headache.

        I switched to AMD for my own use a long time ago because of how this used to be the case, so I can’t verify this for myself, but… these days, isn’t that no longer an issue for anyhing newer than Turing? I see RTX 3060 TI in there, which should be fully supported by the open-source drivers that NVIDIA themselves recommend for that hardware, no?

        Again, I could be wrong since I haven’t had direct personal experience with it since the days when I DO know that your statement accurately reflected the NVIDIA GPU + Linux driver situation.

        • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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          1 month ago

          NVK isn’t yet fully recommendable (otherwise gaming-oriented distros would save themselves all the hassle as well). It mostly works, but the performance often is horrendous. For gaming purposes as well as CUDA you still have to rely on the proprietary driver to get the most performance everywhere, and that thing is as awful to install as ever. It also got some issues on desktop for which distros like Bazzite implement workarounds and sane configurations that are known.

          Nvidia is just awful on Linux…

    • Fecundpossum@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I second everything above. If you use Fedora be sure to follow a post install guide, there’s plenty more of them out there. Otherwise, Mint, Ubuntu, and Pop!_OS are great options.

      If you want a little more challenge, EndeavourOS and CachyOS are great introductions to Arch. Avoid Manjaro.

      I’m really sick of everyone suggesting Bazzite non stop. I’m a serial distro hopper because I love learning about various distros as they grow and change, and bazzite and other immutables have always been problematic and janky for me, and their immutability makes it difficult to problem solve with tried and true resources and methods.