So, just popping in to say that one week after installing my new AMD vidya card, I couldn't be happi

So, just popping in to say that one week after installing my new AMD vidya card, I couldn't be happier with my "just running Bazzite, Windows can go to hell now" gaming rig

unclemarcOP•11/13/23, 3:34 PM

@wolfone88 basic question...did you install the nvidia based image?

Uunclemarc @wolfone88 basic question...did you install the nvidia based image?

Lupone 1988•11/13/23, 3:34 PM

Yes, I did

Lupone 1988•11/13/23, 3:35 PM

Fair question, as I'm a complete Linux noob, but I did read the installation guide and I did choose the Nvidia image

Uunclemarc So, just popping in to say that one week after installing my new AMD vidya card,...

Lupone 1988•11/13/23, 3:35 PM

That's exactly what I want to achieve

unclemarcOP•11/13/23, 3:35 PM

I would check to see if you have Secureboot active in the BIOS. I THINK the Nvidia driver might need to be signed if it's active

Lupone 1988•11/13/23, 3:35 PM

Disabled that already

unclemarcOP•11/13/23, 3:35 PM

Damn

Lupone 1988•11/13/23, 3:35 PM

Although I did not reinstall after disabling, is that necessary?

unclemarcOP•11/13/23, 3:36 PM

As a mere user, I'm running out of quick hits here!

unclemarcOP•11/13/23, 3:36 PM

Maybe?

Lupone 1988•11/13/23, 3:36 PM

I did try to search for an answer and I saw an user with the same issue a few weeks ago here in the discord but didn't find out if they solved it

Lupone 1988•11/13/23, 3:37 PM

Also I think THINK that actually the video card is recognised and works after the system finishes loading. I did try running a game and it seemed to work. How can I check if it's running with up to date drivers?

unclemarcOP•11/13/23, 3:39 PM

What does "modinfo -F version nvidia" return at a command prompt?

Lupone 1988•11/13/23, 3:40 PM

535.129.03

unclemarcOP•11/13/23, 3:40 PM

So that means it loaded the kernel module

Lupone 1988•11/13/23, 3:40 PM

So why the error?

unclemarcOP•11/13/23, 3:40 PM

It could be that your initramfs doesn't have the proper driver since that was built when you still had secureboot on

Lupone 1988•11/13/23, 3:41 PM

It must have loaded the module AFTER the error

unclemarcOP•11/13/23, 3:41 PM

And then once the system gets going, it can load the module properly

Uunclemarc It could be that your initramfs doesn't have the proper driver since that was bu...

Lupone 1988•11/13/23, 3:41 PM

Ok how do I rebuild it?

unclemarcOP•11/13/23, 3:41 PM

So, with a regular ol' Linux, you can fire off a command

unclemarcOP•11/13/23, 3:41 PM

With Bazzite, since it's immutable...I'll defer to someone who knows it better than me

unclemarcOP•11/13/23, 3:42 PM

And this is just my working theory

unclemarcOP•11/13/23, 3:42 PM

I could be full of shit

Lupone 1988•11/13/23, 3:43 PM

Well thanks for the help anyway

Lupone 1988•11/13/23, 3:44 PM

As long as it works I can definitely ignore the error message and you helped me verify that.

Lupone 1988•11/13/23, 3:44 PM

Also another thing I noticed

Lupone 1988•11/13/23, 3:44 PM

If I go into the system information tab in the os gui it doesn't actually say i have a Nvidia card

Lupone 1988•11/13/23, 3:45 PM

But it says I have an Intel integrated graphics card. Which I do, but I don't think it should show up as default

unclemarcOP•11/13/23, 3:45 PM

it looks like if you fire off "rpm-ostree initramfs --enable" then the system will do it every time it generates a new update

unclemarcOP•11/13/23, 3:45 PM

Yeah, that's...not great

unclemarcOP•11/13/23, 3:46 PM

You may want to think about disabling that in the BIOS (which has some risk) and POSSIBLY doing a reinstall from scratch now that secureboot is off

Lupone 1988•11/13/23, 3:46 PM

If it helps I have an xmg Fusion 15 laptop

unclemarcOP•11/13/23, 3:46 PM

Depending on how much you've set up already

Lupone 1988•11/13/23, 3:46 PM

And no I thought of that already but I can't seems to disable the igpu from the bios

unclemarcOP•11/13/23, 3:47 PM

THAT being said, you're most likely using the proper card because it did load the module. What game did you launch and would it have laughed at the integrated card?

Lupone 1988•11/13/23, 3:47 PM

Yeah definitely I tried Control

Lupone 1988•11/13/23, 3:47 PM

So it would have melted the integrated card

unclemarcOP•11/13/23, 3:48 PM

At this point, you need to decide "do I tweak to try and fix or nuke from orbit?"

unclemarcOP•11/13/23, 3:48 PM

And it seems like the error message is not a big deal

Uunclemarc At this point, you need to decide "do I tweak to try and fix or nuke from orbit?...

Lupone 1988•11/13/23, 3:48 PM

I have a question before I can answer that

unclemarcOP•11/13/23, 3:49 PM

My old nerd friend Paul would coach me "it's Linux. Try and fix it, so you learn. Nuking is the Windows way"

Lupone 1988•11/13/23, 3:49 PM

Can I do the reinstall from scratch without losing my user data? I downloaded 300 gigs of games already so it would be annoying to do it again

unclemarcOP•11/13/23, 3:49 PM

I don't think so

Lupone 1988•11/13/23, 3:50 PM

Then fix it is

unclemarcOP•11/13/23, 3:50 PM

To try and remove the error, I wouold try the "rpm-ostree initramfs --enable" command. And then use "just update"

Lupone 1988•11/13/23, 3:50 PM

Ok doing it right now

unclemarcOP•11/13/23, 3:50 PM

Warning - rebuilding the initramfs can take a LONG TIME. 15 minutes or more

unclemarcOP•11/13/23, 3:50 PM

Depending on your hardware

Lupone 1988•11/13/23, 3:51 PM

Yeah I remember it taking a bit of time during install

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