latest gamescope doesn’t work on Polaris (RX4xx/5xx) GPUs

I’m not sure what’s going on, I don’t think I did anything that should change the default session, but nothing is letting me return to gaming mode.

I tried the desktop shortcut “Return to Gaming Mode,” I’ve tried logging off, and I’ve even tried rebooting. It just comes back to the desktop.

Solution

now on stable

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𝒃𝒓𝒊「𝘴𝘩𝘦/𝘩𝘦𝘳」OP•6/8/24, 6:06 PM

Honestly I’m not even sure how to troubleshoot this

I don’t really want to reinstall but I’m not sure what else I can do at this point.

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𝒃𝒓𝒊「𝘴𝘩𝘦/𝘩𝘦𝘳」OP•6/8/24, 6:11 PM

I just realized I’m on testing so I’m rebasing to stable and gonna see if that fixes it

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𝒃𝒓𝒊「𝘴𝘩𝘦/𝘩𝘦𝘳」OP•6/8/24, 6:21 PM

Nope

mk•6/8/24, 6:27 PM

is your user in wheel group

mk•6/8/24, 6:27 PM

what happens when you do systemctl start return-to-gamemode.servicesystemctl start return-to-gamemode.service from terminal

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𝒃𝒓𝒊「𝘴𝘩𝘦/𝘩𝘦𝘳」OP•6/8/24, 6:42 PM

Let me try, one moment

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𝒃𝒓𝒊「𝘴𝘩𝘦/𝘩𝘦𝘳」OP•6/8/24, 6:44 PM

I am in wheel. starting that service logs out of the desktop and right back in

mk•6/8/24, 6:48 PM

are you on bazzite-deck:stable now?

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𝒃𝒓𝒊「𝘴𝘩𝘦/𝘩𝘦𝘳」OP•6/8/24, 6:48 PM

Yes

mk•6/8/24, 6:50 PM

I'd rollback to a previous commit

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𝒃𝒓𝒊「𝘴𝘩𝘦/𝘩𝘦𝘳」OP•6/8/24, 6:54 PM

Rollback doesn’t work because I rebased from testing to stable, so the only previous deployment I have wasn’t good either

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𝒃𝒓𝒊「𝘴𝘩𝘦/𝘩𝘦𝘳」OP•6/8/24, 6:54 PM

I should have pinned it but I’m not certain it’s an ostree thing either

mk•6/8/24, 6:55 PM

what does systemctl status return-to-gamemode.servicesystemctl status return-to-gamemode.service show

mk•6/8/24, 6:55 PM

I'm not familiar with systemd but I'm sure some error will show up

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𝒃𝒓𝒊「𝘴𝘩𝘦/𝘩𝘦𝘳」OP•6/8/24, 6:57 PM

Pardon the photo, I don’t have discord set up on here

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𝒃𝒓𝒊「𝘴𝘩𝘦/𝘩𝘦𝘳」OP•6/8/24, 6:59 PM

Nothing in sudo journalctl -xeu return-to-gamemode.servicesudo journalctl -xeu return-to-gamemode.service either

mk•6/8/24, 7:13 PM

sorry no idea

mk•6/8/24, 7:14 PM

something weird happened when rebasing to testing probably

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𝒃𝒓𝒊「𝘴𝘩𝘦/𝘩𝘦𝘳」OP•6/8/24, 7:19 PM

It was working fine on testing until it updated today

mk•6/8/24, 7:19 PM

I would try removing the local steam installed files?

mk•6/8/24, 7:19 PM

and see what happens

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𝒃𝒓𝒊「𝘴𝘩𝘦/𝘩𝘦𝘳」OP•6/8/24, 7:20 PM

Where are they? ~/.steam? Steam does work in desktop mode oddly enough though

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𝒃𝒓𝒊「𝘴𝘩𝘦/𝘩𝘦𝘳」OP•6/8/24, 7:20 PM

I’ll try renaming that and reboot…

mk•6/8/24, 7:20 PM

.local/share/steam and .steam

mk•6/8/24, 7:20 PM

there are multiple directories

mk•6/8/24, 7:21 PM

.steampath I believe too

mk•6/8/24, 7:21 PM

too many

mk•6/8/24, 7:21 PM

seems rather a bad idea

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𝒃𝒓𝒊「𝘴𝘩𝘦/𝘩𝘦𝘳」OP•6/8/24, 7:26 PM

If I launch big picture mode on the desktop it’s going at very low fps which makes me think something is up with my GPU’s drivers or something. It’s an AMD RX580 though so it should be fully supported.

mk•6/8/24, 7:27 PM

GPU acceleration in steam settings is enabled?

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𝒃𝒓𝒊「𝘴𝘩𝘦/𝘩𝘦𝘳」OP•6/8/24, 7:29 PM

Oh jeez, I found the problem: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/issues/1066

GitHub

Gamescope not working on RX 580 · Issue #1066 · ublue-os/bazzite

Gamescope not working on Polaris so gamemode ui doesnt work for me, but my rx 5600 rx 6600 and rx 6400 works fine ATTENTION: default value of option vk_khr_present_wait overridden by environment. A...

mk•6/8/24, 7:30 PM

then rebasing to a very old bazzite commit work maybe

mk•6/8/24, 7:30 PM

before May

mk•6/8/24, 7:31 PM

something like https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/pkgs/container/bazzite-deck/192495857?tag=39-stable-20240318

mk•6/8/24, 7:32 PM

try rpm-ostree rebase ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-deck:39-stable-20240318rpm-ostree rebase ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-deck:39-stable-20240318

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𝒃𝒓𝒊「𝘴𝘩𝘦/𝘩𝘦𝘳」OP•6/8/24, 7:45 PM

I don’t wanna go back that far, so I’m trying 40-stable-20240424 because that’s the last day before gamescope was updated past 3.13.19 which the issue mentions was working on RX580

mk•6/8/24, 7:49 PM

nice

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𝒃𝒓𝒊「𝘴𝘩𝘦/𝘩𝘦𝘳」OP•6/8/24, 7:55 PM

That did fix it. But it’s very frustrating that this is broken. I’m going to try and look around the builds.

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𝒃𝒓𝒊「𝘴𝘩𝘦/𝘩𝘦𝘳」OP•6/8/24, 8:06 PM

@Kyle Gospo can i poke you and ask for your thoughts? it seems like the current version of gamescope is broken on my GPU

Kyle Gospo•6/8/24, 8:06 PM

What's your GPU?

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𝒃𝒓𝒊「𝘴𝘩𝘦/𝘩𝘦𝘳」OP•6/8/24, 8:06 PM

RX580

Kyle Gospo•6/8/24, 8:06 PM

Yes it's broken

Kyle Gospo•6/8/24, 8:07 PM

You can rebase to an older bazzite until valve fixes it

Kyle Gospo•6/8/24, 8:07 PM

Or rebase to the desktop build

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𝒃𝒓𝒊「𝘴𝘩𝘦/𝘩𝘦𝘳」OP•6/8/24, 8:08 PM

okay, sounds good. i'll follow the upstream github issue https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope/issues/1218 and just stay on 20240424 until i see that it's updated for that

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𝒃𝒓𝒊「𝘴𝘩𝘦/𝘩𝘦𝘳」OP•6/8/24, 8:08 PM

thank you!

DerHammerclock•7/20/24, 10:47 PM

In case someone else searches for this if they have a RX580: This issue is still existing

Kyle Gospo•7/21/24, 6:25 AM

Latest :testing:testing build may resolve this

DerHammerclock•7/21/24, 10:38 AM

Lets go!!!

latest gamescope doesn’t work on Polaris (RX4xx/5xx) GPUs

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