For the first time I am actually switching my main PC from Windows to Linux.
Problem: When booting into Fedora there was no display output, I changed it to safe graphics to install everything and that fixed it but after the install finished I tried turning it back off and there was still no display output
What I have already tried: I’ve tried installing drivers and everything I could find although that shouldn’t be the problem since I have an AMD 6700xt and Fedora comes with AMD drivers built in. I also tried Installing Linux Mint thinking maybe the distro was the problem but it came up with the same issue.
And if anyone suggests it no there is no way I am going to daily drive on safe graphics.
Edit: I am dual booting on a single 500gb ssd with windows already installed on the other half of the drive, not sure if that would be the problem. Also a similar problem was happening on windows if I left the screen in login for too long without signing in the display would show no signal and it wouldn’t wake up if I moved my mouse or clicked or pressed any keys.
sounds like a secure boot issue.
could you explain how I might fix that?
Try switching to X11, see if the issue persists.
Also which screen size options does your monitor see? In my experience it could act problematic with high refresh rate 4K displays, try reducing them until it feels fine.
In safe graphics my resolution is locked on 1024*768 at 60hz, I have a 1080 144 hertz monitor.
And it looks like changing to x11 didn’t fix anything.
Please post your full specs first.
amd ryzen 5 1600 cpu amd radeon 6700xt gpu 16gb ddr4 3200 ram 500gb wd blue sata ssd aoc 24g2 monitor
Could you try any other display to rule out things like EDID issues?
yeah I tried using another display and switching out the display cable didn’t help at all.
Try using Bazzite, it’s based on Fedora and it’s geared towards ease of use, it comes pre-configured with great defaults. That’s why I believe it might work for you. bazzite.gg
If that doesn’t work, make sure you’re plugging the cable to the GPU and that the GPU is set as main display output in the bios.
Bazzite has the same issue. Still no display output. And yes I’m sure my hdmi cable is plugged since it still works with safe graphics on and windows works perfectly with no issues.
Can you check if the iGPU works ?
its a amd ryzen 1600 it doesn’t have an igpu. Although I have a spare gtx 1660 I might try that.
Yeah I’ve seen this distro seams really good and my main use case is gaming. I will give it a go.
Does your system have two graphics processors? One of my laptops won’t work with many distros as they boot to blank screens after install. Fedora was one that does work in my case.
It’s a laptop with two GPUs.
No it only has the 6700xt no integrated graphics either so I can’t even test that. I might be able to borrow my friends 3050 for troubleshooting. Although I would still need the 6700xt working even if the 3050 fixes the issue.
Do you see any errors/failures/timeouts/etc in the logs when you use
journalctl?Yeah there are a lot although I would still consider myself a beginner at Linux and the terminal so I’m not really sure what the logs mean and which ones specifically I should be looking for.
unless you’re using a very old or niche distribution, all of your logs are centralized in to a single space and the command
journalctlwill let you look at them.in your situation i would use the command
journalctl -fto get a live action printout of all the things that are happening as you try to start your x server and you can look through them to find messages in the logs that contain something like “failure” or “error” or “timeout” to find clues as to what’s causing your problem.you don’t need the xserver to run linux and most distributions give you 7 virtual terminals that you can log into without the xserver and each one can be accessed using the keyboard combinations alt+crtl+f1 through alt+crtl+f7.
when i used to be in situations like yours i would log into two virtual terminals. i would use one of them to run
tail -f $lognameand the other to start the xserver.tail -f $lognameis the older deprecated version ofjournalctl -fand they both show you what’s happening in your computer as it occurs. you’ll likely only need to see it once or twice to get a sense of what’s happening and what the interval looks like and you can accomplish something similar if you keep track of your own timestamps by hand and then look through the logs searching for those timestamps in the logs.share the log messages with errors/failures/timeout/whatever in them and we can both look for clues using google or ai.