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Issues with VacuumTube not displaying anything.

Hi, so I'm looking to spin up a couple of bazzite boxes to serve as HTPCs using some older lenovo boxes. Main purpose is to run vacuumtube for YouTube functionality, jellyfin, and Retroarch, maybe a few really light steam games. Boxes are lenovo M75q - Ryzen 3 3200ge - Radeon Vega 8 igpu - 8gb ram - 128gb nvme. I've done clean installs of bazzite using both gnome and KDE-plasma, retroarch seems to run fine, the couple steam games I've tried have run OK but I think that's the hardware being at the bare minimum to run them....

ARC RAIDERS: Latest version of AMD driver has known issues error on boot (9070XT)

Hi! I have been playing ARC Raiders just fine since the server slam. I had no issues on my 9070XT while playing on Bazzite Linux. This morning I woke up to an update that prevents me from getting into the game, the game boots but during the loading screen/popup and just before the actual game should start and get to photo sensitivity warning screen and all that, the game crashes to a popup saying something like "Latest version of AMD driver has known issues. Installed:35.0.99999.9999 Recommended: 25.9.2" or something. So, my current Mesa drivers are version 25.2.6, which has nothing to do with the Windows driver version recommended on the crash message, I think. The latest Mesa Drivers 25.3 were released yesterday, and I don't know if that would fix it. Is there a way to bypass this? or update to 25.3 to see if that would fix it?...

Steam Overlay with RetroDECK - Steam Game Recording

Hi there, After installing the flatpak version of RetroDECK through Bazaar, it added itself to Steam, however when running it through steam, the steam overlay doesn't work nor does game recording - is this expected behaviour, or is there a way to enable this feature?...

Bazzite fails to rpm-ostree update

Had Bazzite installed for months now but have not been able to update it correctly for a similar period of time.. Firstly, running rpm-ostree update gives the following error error: Updating rpm-md repo 'fedora-cisco-openh264-debuginfo': cannot update repo 'fedora-cisco-openh264-debuginfo': Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: Status code: 404 for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-cisco-openh264-debug-43&arch=x86_64 (IP: 152.2.23.104); Last error: Status code: 404 for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-cisco-openh264-debug-43&arch=x86_64 (IP: 35.158.105.37) Any ideas how to solve please ???...
Solution:
you have way too much stuff layered, use rpm-ostree reset and then update again

Steam Deck OLED | Emudeck always launches fullscreen

As title states. I'm no noob but Linux isn't my forte. Is there a workaround or alternative install method such that Emudeck can launch windowed rather than fullscreen?

Secure boot in MSI CLAW A8(Z2E)

Hi experts, I am installing dual boot Bazzite with win11 on my MSI CLAW A8(Z2E). I mainly refer to this video instruction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxPsKhJGTrs&lc=Ugx7UtyYKNS6GTD3JI94AaABAg.APADUIN2_vNAPAMmydPBL0 Everything works fine except the secure boot part. ...

Asus Z13 2025 Questions

Potentially getting a Z13 flow soon. Would like to run Bazzite on it as a daily driver but have some questions that I haven’t been able to find with search. 1) SimpleDeckyTDP apparently supports undervolting using ryzen-adj for Strix Halo now, but I believe this would conflict with HHD and its integration with TDP controls on steam ui. Will there or is there an option for undervolting via HHD? 2) Z13 display is advertised as supporting Dolby Vision HDR. Is there an HDR implementation for the display under steam UI and the desktop?...

Black screen Final fantasy 16

So I'm attempting to play this on bazzite with a hx370 AMD based handheld PC. Game runs fine but I'm at a point in the game where certain cutscenes/movies just glitch out or trigger a black screen. Happening in both gaming and desktop mode. I dual boot and when I test on windows, the cutscenes play as they should. Not sure what the issue could be. Attached a screenshot of the subtitles showing but no video....
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Cider Music App in Game Mode making Frame Rate Drop

I recently was able to install Cider and save it as a none steam game to launch in game mode. And it works no problem when I’m just running the app, however if I run Cider and play a game at the same time my Game’s FPS drops dramatically. I’m rocking an Rx 6800 and Ryzen 5 5600x with 16gb of Ram. Never have problems running in desktop mode. Please help!

SMB Share added to Places closes Dolphin?

I've added a few network shares to Network, and I've opened them from Network without a problem. If I right-click one and Add to Places, then when I click it under Remote in the sidebar, it'll think for a second before just closing the window. Not sure what's going on here....

Very low CPU usage while gaming

Hey all! I am often experiencing very low CPU usage while gaming. It doesn't really matter what game I am running, it's always like this. I first thought it was because I was playing in 4k, so I lowered it to 1440p, then 1080p, but this resulted in minimal fps increase (like +20 fps from 4k to 1080p) and both the GPU and CPU remains at the same usage. I also feel like performance gets worse over time, and restarting the game could easily give me 100+ extra fps. The experience is the same for pretty much any game. Counter-Strike, Civilization, random indie games, the GPU usage is really high and the CPU is hardly used. ...
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Auto-Login has given me multiple problems upon just wanting to try it out

I am quite burned out already trying to fix this so i'll just share it here to see if someone can help me somehow So basically everything was working fine until i wanted to try autologin, i know there was a command for it but i thought going on the settings panel would be the same thing anyways, i activated it and at first i didn't pick on which enviorement to have it be used, rebooted, stared at a black screen for an hour, ended up spending hours with ChatGPT trying to figure this out (I know that can be a foolish decision but i kinda panicked after waiting so long), thought it was about Docker but might not be ... and once i realized about the startplasma command to jump to desktop like all going back to normal now every time i reboot something weird happens that's attached to native steam, at one point once i disabled autologin it was constantly forcing me to login through steam big picture mode even though i didn't want it, i had to manually open terminal with the CTRL+ALT+F3 command to start the real desktop Except when i did that something was off, the steam that came with the OS and not the flatpak one i think was sticky, i tried closing it and it closed the whole session with the message in the corner that upon login i would jump into steam big picture mode until i manually force it to get me to plasma...
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Bazzite game mode not working

I have been at this for two days and here's what I got. So I installed bazzite as home theator for my HP 600 g4 sff PC with a Rx 6400 and I believe I did setup all correctly After I go through bazzite installation it opens up to desktop mode which I thought was weird so I clicked game mode and the screen goes black then opens up desktop mode again And to be fully clear steam does still work and this is game mode I'm having the issue with...

System is freezing randomly

Mouse and keyboard are unresponsive, system is completely unresponsive. Found this in journalctl:
Nov 05 23:43:32 DESKTOP-VUHCGKF kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: [drm] *ERROR* [CRTC:100:crtc-0] flip_done timed out
Nov 05 23:43:32 DESKTOP-VUHCGKF kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: [drm] *ERROR* [CRTC:100:crtc-0] flip_done timed out
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PS5 controller "native" support on bazzite

so the last 2 days, I have been dissapointed as its been heavily advertised online that ps5 controllers are natively supported on linux, and by extension I assumed that for Bazzite. So far, wired or wireless, nothing but the controller and the adaptive triggers work. Gyro, trackpad, and haptics and or sound does not work at all. I have tried many solutions, restarts, updating the controller, made sure my bazzite was up to date and made sure I was using proton/wine and not GE , incase the haptics werre supported on GE too. ...

mDNS not working (homeassistant.local not resolving)

Having some trouble with .local addresses not working in the browser. I know they work as Windows was able to get to them on the same hardware. Also Bazzite can get to them via the IP, so the sites themselves work. sudo avahi-resolve -n homeassistant.local also seems to resolve properly, so there's something odd going on. Tried to find an answer online but I'm not finding anything helpful.
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Davinci Resolve crashes on startup.

I have the latest version of Davinci Resolve installed on Bazzite, however, it has started crashing on startup out of nowhere. Running Resolve from the terminal doesn't seem to show any errors: ```ActCCMessage Already in Table: Code= c005, Mode= 13, Level= 1, CmdKey= -1, Option= 0 ActCCMessage Already in Table: Code= c006, Mode= 13, Level= 1, CmdKey= -1, Option= 0 ActCCMessage Already in Table: Code= c007, Mode= 13, Level= 1, CmdKey= -1, Option= 0 ActCCMessage Already in Table: Code= 2282, Mode= 0, Level= 0, CmdKey= 8, Option= 0...
Solution:
I decided to uninstall DaVinci Resolve and use the ujust script to install it (I did it manually myself last time), instead, worked like a charm

I wanted to connect my Steam game library from a second drive with Nobara 42. and i broke system.

I tried to connect a second drive with games that I had already installed on another Nobara 42 system to the Steam library. The drive is detected, but instead of finding the appropriate folder from steamaaps, Bazite created a new empty one on the drive. So I assigned the owner with this recursive option and probably changed the file system. As a result, Nobara no longer starts up, and it is my primary system. The game library is still not connected to Steam in Bazzite. Is there any way to fix th...
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Dragging into a web browser to upload files fails with invalid path.

Whenever I have tried to drag files into google drive to upload them (or any other service) the drag has always failed, presumably this is because the system can't decide if the user's home directory is /var/home/user or /home/user This should be corrected as it is impacting drag and drop functionality with websites....
Solution:
& givve it access to the folder

Problem witch full screen in games and media

Hello,I have a problem with full screen mode on anything.When I try to watch You Tube in full screen my screen goes dark the same in the games,also games are un stable.It looks like its jaming the screen.My components are: Cpu ryzen 7 5800 X Gpu Ryzen 6700 XT 16 gb ram...