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ChimeraOS
Black Screen after Installation
Hello,
Trying to install on Minisforum UM690 CPU : AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX GPU : Radeon 680M
Basically as title says, after installing on the SSD, when I reboot the screen stays black.
Similar situation to the Steam Deck with the recent update. After installing when you boot into the OS it's just a black screen.
Can you attempt to use a keyboard and press CTRL + ALT +F3 to see if anything comes up on the screen?
@ruineka , unfortunately nothing seems to pop up
Same as the Steam Deck... Interesting, apologies for the troubles I need to figure out what's causing this.
Appreciate your time with it! I doubt I'll be of much use, but let me know if I can help in anyway
I posted on the reddit sub about this with my lenovo laptop. @ruineka with some effort you can get ctrl + alt + f3 to show an underscore and even a login prompt but its in some kind of loop where it will go away quickly after you see it. Its almost like what i believe to be the gamescope session is continually trying to start and failing in a loop or something if i had to guess. Is there anyway i can boot my laptop on a liveusb linux distro chroot and force it into a desktop session ? on next boot
i've tried using a liveboot to change the default session however i'm clueless when it comes to btrfs filesystems and no matter how i've attempted to mount the filesystem as readwrite i can't change files on the fs and files are unwritable
I have a similar issue with a RX 6800 in a GPU passthrough VM, although switching VTs and logging in does work. ~gamescope-session still causes a black screen on restart, however.~ nvm, it's now loaded.
I have a similar issue with a gtx 970. Tried a older installer but no luck. Can press crt+alt+f3 to get a login in prompt. That than disperse after 20 secconds
I'm having the same issue. Ctrl+Alt+F3 displays the login for about 3 seconds then blank. I'm starting to believe it's Nvidia 900 series related. My box with a GTX 1070ti updated to v39 and gamepadui with no issues all be with some stutters. My other box with a GTX 960 2gb just has a blank screen. Even after a complete format and clean install.
I was able to login with "gamer" and type gamescope and got these results. Sorry for the bad picture. Trying to press Ctrl+Alt+F3 and take a picture.
I think you're right about the 900 nvidias, I have had this problem with two very different computers, one with a 970M and one a 980.
The 900 series Nvidia cards have issues using gamescope for some reason. The 10 series and newer "work" as good as anyone can expect Nvidia to work in it's current shape, but it seems either the 900 series lacks support for a required feature or their is a bug in the driver breaking anything older than Pascal GPUs.
For users with this broken setup can you try switching to the old big picture mode and see if games run at all? To do this get into the TTY and enter 'chimera-session bigpicture'. I'm curious if vulkan is failing entirely or just gamescope specifically.
Yeah I read on another Linux gaming forum that someone told them their 980 wouldn't work. I did try TTY and "chimera-session bigpicture" and it loaded up but only for a few minutes. It eventually went blank again. It seems a simple Steam update will force the gamepadui mode again. I think there is a way to stick with --prefer-vk-device, but I stopped reading up once night turned to day.
I eventually gave up and purchased a 5600XT for $130. I'm just kicking myself in the butt because I just bought the 1070Ti over the holidays and probably should spent a tiny bit more and got a 5700XT. Hopefully the 10xx series doesn't loose support anytime in the near future. The 9xx series is quickly approaching it's 12-13yr support road map Nvidia usually has.
Same with my RX6400 seems to me like it defaults to the internal GPU even if the only monitor that is connected is on the PCIe GPU. Try make a Scrips that detects what Devices are connected on boot and Set it by detecting on wich GPU a Screen is connected. But prettymuch every config with a APU or CPU with iGPU on wich you can't deactivate the iGPU or CPU Internal GPU will Fail cause the default seems to be hardcodet so the HDMI connected Screen is a Second screen if a iGPU is used even if the screen is connected to a GPU.
I am having the same issue on ChimeraOS 41 - I ran the 2023-03-28 installer, rebooted and ended up with a black screen I could not get past. I had to flash a different OS so I couldn't get logs but I'm using a ryzen 5600 (non x) and a rx 6700 (non xt) gpu which should mean I have avoided any nvidia or integrated gpu related issues. I had no issues with Chimera OS 39 as I was running that before.
As mentioned on the COS website, Intel HD 500 and upwards is supported, I'm just using a Intel HD 4600 iGPU and also get a blackscreen. Also checking with the latest installer, atleast in my case it seems to be related to https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope/issues/508
As mentioned on the COS website, Intel HD 500 and upwards is supported, I'm just using a Intel HD 4600 iGPU and also get a blackscreen. Also checking with the latest installer, atleast in my case it seems to be related to ValveSoftware/gamescope#508
According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_graphics_processing_units) Intel HD Graphics 4600 released in 2013 Intel HD Graphics 500 series released in 2015/2016
As mentioned on the COS website, Intel HD 500 and upwards is supported, I'm just using a Intel HD 4600 iGPU and also get a blackscreen. Also checking with the latest installer, atleast in my case it seems to be related to ValveSoftware/gamescope#508
According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_graphics_processing_units) Intel HD Graphics 4600 released in 2013 Intel HD Graphics 500 series released in 2015/2016
Good hint, weird naming scheme! O_o
I tried again with a reinstall - ctrl/alt/f3 gets me to a terminal and I can login, but the screen resets in a few seconds to a blinking cursor so I can't do much as every time I switch back to the terminal it will go back to the blinking cursor in a few seconds. Deleting .config/gamescope/modes.cfg didn't seem to work. I managed to get some logs though:
I do have the same issue with "seatd" failed to open seat. Seems like chimera is just uninstallable right now.
Edit : Using ryzen 5700x with rx 7900xt
Sad to see no fixes or any guide to avoid this problem, i will try now downgrading
Sad to see no fixes or any guide to avoid this problem, i will try now downgrading
Which version are you on?
i was on 41 downgraded to 39 but it still doesnt work. Any suggestions? The Hardware shoud be supported
i was on 41 downgraded to 39 but it still doesnt work. Any suggestions? The Hardware shoud be supported
I have tried this ISO and it worked : chimeraos-2023.02.15-x86_64 . I am however hesitant to recommend anything. It's worrisome to install something that is currently not even installable by default.
Is it possible to see Logs or anything?
With the new version we are about to release if there are issues you'll be sent to the desktop instead of a black screen making it much easier to investigate and get logs for these situations.
Is it possible to see Logs or anything?
With the new version we are about to release if there are issues you'll be sent to the desktop instead of a black screen making it much easier to investigate and get logs for these situations.
Can I ask if this will be the case only when strictly black screen is shown? I am asking because Nobara redirects user to the Gnome interface every time there is an issue in the steamdeckUI and it is very annoying. I very much prefer the way it is handled Chimera where just the steamdeckUI is restarted.
Is it possible to see Logs or anything?
With the new version we are about to release if there are issues you'll be sent to the desktop instead of a black screen making it much easier to investigate and get logs for these situations.
Can I ask if this will be the case only when strictly black screen is shown? I am asking because Nobara redirects user to the Gnome interface every time there is an issue in the steamdeckUI and it is very annoying. I very much prefer the way it is handled Chimera where just the steamdeckUI is restarted.
This will only be when there are multiple gamescope crashes in a small amount of time that should only occur when something is very broken and needs fixed. It prevents the issue where you can't set up SSH or get to the TTY because the looping takes focus away.
I have never tested gamescope-session on Nobara so I'm not sure how that behaves or how it's set up.
Try logging in with gamer/gamer chimera-session bigpicture Alt+ctrl+F7
It makes us go a step further
Having this problem as well. On the previous version somehow got the system to straighten itself out by running 'gamescope-session gamepadui' from the tty.
Updating the system seems to have broken things again and unfortunately I can't seem to get the system to consistently not get stuck booting into Gnome (running 'game mode' just pops me back to gnome again).
I'm on a i5-3570k and RX 5700XT.
