So I have been getting green screen of death on this new computer build of mine. This new computer is the first time I have run linux as I am NOT paying Microsoft any more of my money. The green screens started happening immediately I had originally thought it was due to old drivers at first but I updated every last thing I could find and it is still happening. AI told me that it could be a corrupted file system and suggested a command but it did not seem to do anything and I do not know why. Please help with this and any other suggestions on why I may be greenscreening. It is very intermittent, if I am online for 17 hours it will happen once or twice. Anyway, here is the command the AI gave me and its results…

fsck / btrfs --check --repair fsck from util-linux 2.40.4 If you wish to check the consistency of a BTRFS filesystem or repair a damaged filesystem, see btrfs(8) subcommand ‘check’.

Probably a super newb question but I am a super newb here in Linux lol

X870 RX9070 XT Ryzen 9800X3D

Thanks in advance

  • Noxy ( noxypaws@pawb.social ) English
    10·
    1 年前

    Tell us more about what’s happening, is the whole monitor turning green or just parts of it?

    Does it stay green until you do something, or does it go away on its own?

    Does it happen only with certain games or applications, or does it happen regardless of what’s running?

    And please for the love of fuck do not run any commands you don’t personally understand, especially if it came from an “ai”. Don’t poison your brain (and the planet) with “ai” bullshit, please!

    • Necroscope0 ( Necroscope0@lemm.ee ) OPEnglish
      2·
      1 年前

      Solid green screen across the whole thing. The speaker starts humming the mouse and keyboard do not do anything and it does not resolve on its own (not within five minutes or so anyway). I have to do a hard reboot, then it works fine for the next 7-14 hours and then it happens again. Does not matter what I am doing. I have had it go green when I was reading plain text and not even touching the inputs.

    • Necroscope0 ( Necroscope0@lemm.ee ) OPEnglish
      4·
      1 年前

      I have not tried what you are asking in the second line because I have no clue what a secondary TTY even is, let alone the shortcuts or commands to do it. You were wondering if I tried this while the green screen is up or while everything is working normally?

      • WilfordGrimley ( WilfordGrimley@linux.community ) English
        4·
        1 年前

        While the green screen is up. I listed the shortcuts in the above comment. If there is an issue in the graphics pipeline you may be able to troubleshoot from a terminal only session using Ctrl+Alt+F2.

        Login to that text only eesison with the username a password you used when creating the image.

        Do you know which bazzite image you used? I think for your configuration it should have been bazzite-desktop. You might be having a green screen graphical issue if you accidentally downloaded a flashed bazzite-deck or bazzite-nvidia with an AMD graphics card.

        • Necroscope0 ( Necroscope0@lemm.ee ) OPEnglish
          3·
          1 年前

          It was desktop KDE I can not remember if it was the one with gaming mode or not. I think it was not but I could be misremembering. I used one of the first install and the other on the second.

          • WilfordGrimley ( WilfordGrimley@linux.community ) English
            1·
            1 年前

            Where you able to log in to a TTY session?

            All bazzite images support ‘gaming mode’. The deck images boot into it straight away which could cause problems with desktop hardware.

            Consider joining the ublue discord group and troubleshooting with the creators of bazzite in the bazzte channel. They are very knowledgeable and if your issue is reproducible they would be able to implement a fix in future images.

        • Necroscope0 ( Necroscope0@lemm.ee ) OPEnglish
          1·
          1 年前

          Yeah I was going to try messing with hardware next to see if it helps but I want to try all the software based stuff first, I hate fiddling with the hardware. I am just about there though, lol. Not much left software wise I don’t think

  • GregorGizeh ( GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip ) 
    3·
    1 年前

    I’m a bazzite user for a good year now, and also a first time Linux user. My hardware is amd as well, and for me the experience has been great, the most annoying issues having been compatibility workarounds for windows software. I would definitely recommend you to join their discord for support.

    A green screen of death does not sound healthy, even crashes or hard reboots have never produced something similar for me. To rule out hardware issues, can you install a windows copy and/or create a USB with a live Linux OS such as mint to compare? (For reference, some Linux distros are able to run entirely off a USB stick, albeit much slower due to the obvious bottleneck).

    If all this checks out I would suggest either reinstalling bazzite off a verified iso (there is a function before installing to make sure there are no errors) or using another distro.

    • Necroscope0 ( Necroscope0@lemm.ee ) OPEnglish
      1·
      1 年前

      Yeah everything boots and is installed and works great. Games, discord, everything works. It’s just that randomly the screen goes solid green and I have to hard reboot. It happens about once every 7 or so hours usually I would say.