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Bazzite•9mo ago•
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Luca Vitiello

Black screen when switching to desktop mode

Hello, I recently got a mini PC and installed bazzite on it for home theatre use. Was all working fine yesterday but today when I tried to go into desktop mode I got presented with a blank screen.

I'm using Oculink and have an external GPU, but even disconnecting that and retrying yielded the same result.

I tried opening TTY and running steamos-session-select plasma but I got weird screen glitches and booted me back into Steam, tried again and got black screen one more time.

what is odd is that in TTY i tried to
echo $DISPLAY
echo $DISPLAY
and got nothing,
xrandr --listproviders
xrandr --listproviders
returned "Can't open display"

Tried renaming .config .local and .cache to *.bak folders.

Should I just reinstall?
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