How do I update AMD drivers on Bazzite? If I get no signal from the previous driver should I not eve

How do I update AMD drivers on Bazzite? If I get no signal from the previous driver should I not even update it? Im so confused. After bios screen and selecting which OS version of Bazzite to use, I kept getting no signal on my monitor and a black screen, so I added the nomodeset to the boot options and now I can enter the desktop.

LLady Sylvanas How do I update AMD drivers on Bazzite? If I get no signal from the previous dri...

Kyle Gospo•1/13/24, 5:48 PM

AMD drivers are built into the Linux kernel, there's nothing to update

Kyle Gospo•1/13/24, 5:48 PM

What GPU do you have?

Lady SylvanasOP•1/13/24, 5:50 PM

AMD RADEON RX 6800 XT

Lady SylvanasOP•1/13/24, 5:51 PM

Im not sure how to fix whatever is causing the issue so i can put the display mode back to normal

Lady SylvanasOP•1/13/24, 5:52 PM

the screen resolution while doing this is terrible

Kyle Gospo•1/13/24, 5:55 PM

Something silly going on, I'm daily driving a 6900 XT without issue

Lady SylvanasOP•1/13/24, 5:56 PM

Could it be a desktop effect in system settings? If so I dont even know how to turn it off if I cant enter the desktop with normal boot options

Lady SylvanasOP•1/13/24, 5:56 PM

is there a way to put stuff at default for screen resolution etc, for when i boot normally

Lady SylvanasOP•1/13/24, 5:57 PM

without nomodeset

Lady SylvanasOP•1/13/24, 6:32 PM

I tried entering recovery mode with init=/bin/bash/ in grub boot settings, but it had the same issue as starting the desktop normally getting no signal again

Lady SylvanasOP•1/13/24, 6:32 PM

Basically I need to revert the KMS(for display) to default settings somehow, but I have no idea how to do so.

Lady SylvanasOP•1/13/24, 6:49 PM

Made a little summary here; Problem:
Was using desktop normally and had to reboot after desktop froze.
The monitor now gets no signal when attempting to boot into the OS.
I attempted to boot into a recovery mode and that also gets no signal.
Adding nomodeset in grub, allows me to boot into and access and use the desktop.
I'm using an AMD RX 6800 XT GPU.

Possible Solution Question:
How do you revert KMS Display Settings to default if you can only access the desktop with nomodeset? While in nomodeset I don't even see everything I had installed like desktop effects for instance, so I don't know how to remove them if I can't see them. I assume that if I were able to revert KMS display settings to default and save them, that next time I try to boot normally, I will be able to see the desktop again without getting no signal.

CCharlieBros If you would be so kind to share the draft before friday, I’ll appreciate it, un...

tryhardsoccermomswag•1/13/24, 7:07 PM

when i get on the desktop ill link the draft. It's a public hackmd link. Need to improve it but you can have the link saved somewhere and do it whenever

pure•1/13/24, 7:31 PM

Is this something I need to worry about? Unsure if it meant run that now, or after the update has been applied.

HikariKnight•1/13/24, 7:35 PM

ehh you on a bios install? not uefi install?

HHikariKnight ehh you on a bios install? not uefi install?

pure•1/13/24, 7:38 PM

Yeah I'm on bios install so that would make sense. Odd that it would notify me about that then...

Ppure Yeah I'm on bios install so that would make sense. Odd that it would notify me a...

HikariKnight•1/13/24, 7:40 PM

it notifies you about it since bios install is really not expected as far as i know, it is not an expected install due to it being deprecated many years ago so there is no check in place if you are on a bios install or not.

HikariKnight•1/13/24, 7:45 PM

but yes @pure you can ignore the message since its only needed for secure boot

Ppure Yeah I'm on bios install so that would make sense. Odd that it would notify me a...

Kyle Gospo•1/13/24, 7:50 PM

Out of an abundance of caution it's notifying everyone

Kyle Gospo•1/13/24, 7:51 PM

When the next update launches next weekend that message will disappear for you and everyone else

Kyle Gospo•1/13/24, 7:51 PM

It was the best way to make sure everyone was aware of it

Kyle Gospo•1/13/24, 7:51 PM

I suppose in your case it's also useful because you should not be using the bios mode regardless

matt_schwartz•1/13/24, 9:09 PM

@Kyle Gospo is your Gamescope still built from source or did you also transition over to Chimera’s Gamescope-plus?

Mmatt_schwartz @Kyle Gospo is your Gamescope still built from source or did you also transition...

Kyle Gospo•1/13/24, 9:11 PM

Chimera is slightly behind so I made a patch from their commits and applied it against the latest tagged upstream

Kyle Gospo•1/13/24, 9:11 PM

And that's what we build

matt_schwartz•1/13/24, 9:12 PM

got it, thanks. using it as one final testing sample.

matt_schwartz•1/13/24, 9:19 PM

I’m getting close to filing a Gamescope issue for this HDR nits issue totally separate from our refresh rate findings. Going to try one more Neptune kernel build and see if it makes a difference.

Vanilla Neptune seemed promising at first but then after one or two reboots my HDR metadata nits went back to half of what it should’ve been, leading me to believe it’s getting conflicting drm info somehow and then writing that as the new normal. I’m going to double check Bazzite’s output one more time to see if I overlooked anything.

matt_schwartz•1/13/24, 9:20 PM

unlike refresh rate if this one isn’t kernel dependent it seems in-scope of Valve issue reports

LTT Screwdriver•1/13/24, 9:48 PM

I have a question about rebasing? Can I rebase without losing files?

BBrenIngham not sure what you've tried already, but you could try a service that on boot tha...

Pixel 🔜 SF 🎧•1/13/24, 10:03 PM

you'd want to

find -type d

find -type d

that chmod, but you've got the idea that I had if I did run it as a service, however, I'd also want to trigger it on login
systemd should have a target for that, though, I think? every time a user logs in, execstart a script
that, or I just use cron, or monitor for filesystem changes--I have plenty of options, just have to see what the least overkill method would be

LLTT Screwdriver I have a question about rebasing? Can I rebase without losing files?

HikariKnight•1/13/24, 10:05 PM

rebasing does not touch your $HOME folder (other than creating config files for new applications when you run the progam for the first time)
however it is strongly discouraged to change between KDE and Gnome due to the 2 separate desktop environments having conflicting configs so you risk getting an unusable userprofile

HHikariKnight rebasing does not touch your $HOME folder (other than creating config files for ...

LTT Screwdriver•1/13/24, 10:43 PM

Thank you. I'm just putting my 1tb drive from my LCD onto my OLED. I'll be keeping KDE. I just wanna be on the testing branch for OLED & HDR.

LLTT Screwdriver Thank you. I'm just putting my 1tb drive from my LCD onto my OLED. I'll be keepi...

HikariKnight•1/13/24, 10:49 PM

the stuff in testing is getting merged into main/stable next week btw

PPixel 🔜 SF 🎧you'd want to `find -type d` that chmod, but you've got the idea that I had if I...

BrenIngham•1/13/24, 11:03 PM

why would i need the

find

find

command here? the -R should be enough to ensure everything in that directory has the same permissions (and you only really want to set the 777 permission here so that your user service wont need root to re-take ownership, you can use a more sane permission for when your user owns it)...though thinking about it, it will need to run as root to set the permssions again afterwards

BrenIngham•1/13/24, 11:04 PM

no one else uses my computer but now im interested in setting this up