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Error when trying to install Bazzite specifically (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by Lumisal@lemmy.world to c/bazzite@lemmy.world
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It's the GPU hardware that was the problem ๐Ÿ˜ญ. This post can be closed.

But happy ending: replaced the GPU and Bazzite installed flawlessly.

Credit to Clearwater who figured out the real issue early on.

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Possible big update Display port doesn't seem to work. Could it be the GPU? (Tested while Cachy is installed)

Also nvidia-smi did not find anything, so checking drivers now.

I get the following error message:

amd_pstate: failed to register with return -19

And there's more but then the screen turns into a creepy pasta gif looking thing of white and green shifting blocks, except for a few random letters.

But the issue doesn't happen when I used a Garuda xfce I had laying around I used for an older PC (that was maybe too old for Bazzite?). That went into the installer and live iso environment without issues.

It's a newish build I'm making for someone as a gift with the following hardware:

Asus Prime B550M-K AM4 microATX Kingston FURY Beast DDR4 3600 MHz AMD Ryzen 5 4500 AM4

And a used Nvidia RTX 3060ti.

I have secure boot off I think (the Asus EZ bios is weird)

Update

I managed to install it using the text installer, but now it does this:

Then blank screen. Ctrl-Alt-F2 gives me a terminal at least and I did just get-logs which gives me the following:

Is this a Wayland issue?

Update 2:

Not a Wayland issue. But tried installing Fedora Kiinoite to rebase it to Bazzite, but Fedora has the same issue Bazzite did when trying to install, only it doesn't mention the Elf 19 error, and it frezzes allowing me to take a picture:

I really love Bazzite and run it on my own computer, but I'm starting to think it doesn't really run on older desktop hardware.

Update 3: Updating Bios didn't work...

Update 4:

Could not figure out how to install it. Cachy however has installed and loads fast, but also has the 720p porridge issue. Specifically, looks like this:

Wondering if Bazzite isn't installing due to a GPU issue? Would explain why the text installer and terminal only mode worked

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[โ€“] Clearwater@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Reading into the logs you provided (see the pastes), I see an ungodly number of kernel: NVRM: gpuHandleSanityCheckRegReadError_GM107: Possible bad register read: addr: 0x110100, regvalue: 0xbadf5620, error code: Unknown SYS_PRI_ERROR_CODE lines followed by some messages about the GPU failing to initialize.

If you have another Nvidia card available (16xx or above), swap it into the system and see if it suddenly works. Your card may be a dud.

Odds are that pstate is entirely unrelated.

[โ€“] Lumisal@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Oh no, that's what I feared most. It's the only used part.

I do luckily have another I can test it with, but before I swap it and take it out - would plugging into the motherboard HDMI still cause the problem if it's the GPU?

[โ€“] Clearwater@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Since that CPU has no iGPU, it's most likely that it'll result in no video out at all.

If push comes to shove, you can try using the bazzite image for older Nvidia GPUs as that uses a different driver (but still compatible with 30xx). If you're lucky, it might do the init in a different way which doesn't trigger any hardware quirks. Just know that come with a caveat that any future upgrade would (most likely) involve switching drivers.

[โ€“] 4am@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 days ago

amd_pstate indicates to me this might be a bios issue. Make sure the bios is the latest version and enable CPPC in your bios settings (if you have it) and see if that fixes it.

[โ€“] statler_waldorf@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 days ago

A search on "amd pstate -19" didn't return any bazzite specific answers but have me a few hits on other distros like Arch and Cachy.

General consensus looks like upgrade or downgrade your BIOS.

[โ€“] TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz 2 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Concur with the others - in an arch forum they advise that specific error indicates the installed BIOS is too old

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=301797

[โ€“] TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz 3 points 6 days ago

Oh - and for the curious, amd_pstate is a CPU performance scaling driver: https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/pm/amd-pstate.html

[โ€“] Lumisal@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Didn't work...

[โ€“] Lumisal@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

In can't across this too but wasn't sure if it applied since Bazzite is based on Fedora but not Arch and isn't Hyperland. The irony being the Garuda Linux version I used for testing did install and is based on Arch (but is Wayland).

Still, will be updating bios

[โ€“] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You can try Nobara with nvidia ISO and boot into the live environment and diagnose any issues, like by running nvidia-smi to see if your GPU is working as intended. Nobara is also based on Fedora, but simple, non-silverblue, non-atomic OS.

If everything works as expected then there might be some compatibility issues with Bazzite. If so, then I would recommend sticking to Nobara. It is not the most stable OS, but you get almost every feature Bazzite has to offer. Also, Nobara is maintained by Glorious Eggroll, who also maintains a popular fork of proton, called proton-ge.

Another thing I would like to mention is that I also bought a used 3060, recently, and faced some graphical glitches. I also bought a new PSU, and it had 2 6-pin connectors and one of them gave me those issues. Plugging in the other one solved it. I doubt if it was a PSU problem since it was new and rated Silver.

[โ€“] Lumisal@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I've known about nobara but the lack of stability makes me nervous, since this PC is for someone who has never used Linux

[โ€“] pishadoot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

Definitely don't recommend nobara for a Linux noob. Most unstable distro I've ever personally tried to daily drive.

[โ€“] Lumisal@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Thanks everyone, will try updating the bios and see if that works. I really hope it does .

Edit: Didn't work. Same error. Didn't have high hopes since when I looked, I saw the bios firmware wasn't too old - January 2025 - but yeah... I'm not sure what else to try next...

[โ€“] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Different direction, try downgrading. According to the CachyOS forum people downgraded to a BIOS from 2024.

[โ€“] Lumisal@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Didn't work