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UBUniversal Blue
Created by Happy_Hammy on 3/2/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Secondary HDD refusing to Mount, It also causes strange CPU Load
That is totally going to catch out unsuspecting users in the future when they decide to upgrade their existing HDD or SSD to a newer large one and find that theirs no simple 1-Click solution to do it. They have to spend hours transferring data across drives when it should be a very simple 10-20 minute process removing the old drive physically, then physically inserting the new drive even for a newbie to Computers that task alone is already something most people would consider to be potentially stressful, adding stress is not what We (As a community)/Bazzite should be doing. This feels like a huge misstep by the Bazzite Developer Team, I'll raise this in general discussion and see what they think of the suggestion, I certainly don't agree that Raid 0 is a good Default, not with the risks and complexities (for new & uneducated users) that it comes with.
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UBUniversal Blue
Created by Happy_Hammy on 3/2/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Secondary HDD refusing to Mount, It also causes strange CPU Load
Okay, I've been really stupid all this time..... So you are right, it is a Raid 0 Volume, I honestly didn't know that Raid 0 was done by default so that has caught me by surprise to be totally honest. I wasn't looking for it so I didn't see it, and being the stubborn person that I am I had assumed that the drive just wasn't mounted, because that was the case in other distributions that I had used. Once again I didn't see anything in the installation guide about Raid 0 being used by Default, so that 100% needs to be mentioned and updated, I will try to see about getting a GitHub issue opened about that so it can be fixed. Because I won't be the last person to come along wondering where my storage is and why I can't mount my drives after a fresh/recent Bazzite installation. Thanks for you help @wolfyreload, Greatly appreciated!
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UBUniversal Blue
Created by Happy_Hammy on 3/2/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Secondary HDD refusing to Mount, It also causes strange CPU Load
I'm trying to primarily understand, where is all my storage space LOL
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UBUniversal Blue
Created by Happy_Hammy on 3/2/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Secondary HDD refusing to Mount, It also causes strange CPU Load
Oh right, in that case why would it be that I cannot access it? Does that mean in the Dolphin File Manager that the "/home" directory should conceivably be roughly 80GB (from my 120GB Boot SSD) + roughly 960GB (from my 1TB HDD). I list less than the full sizes because parts of the drives are preallocated to stuff, or at least that is what Bazzite seems to think for them, 25GB of the HDD is used on.... Something.... Not entirely sure what, but if it is in a Raid 0 configuration then that might explain that 25GB being set aside as part of the Raid 0 setup allowing it to function as some sort of intra-drive cache between the SSD and the HDD. My knowledge in the specifics of how exactly Raid functions and effects a individual drive is really limited when it comes to Raid 0 because I am pretty against Raid 0 and so never really use it, I am more of a Raid 1 person, redundancy over performance, although for this PC I was sort of hoping I could just have two drives and the redundancy would be something I would consider at a later date of the data on the system ever became important to me. I back up important data all of the time, I had off-site critical data backups, no cloud backups though, my data isn't that important to me such that I need it back immediately if a drive dies or my system goes up in flames. I still couldn't find mention of Raid 0 in the installation instructions when I looked esrlier, so if you're any good at making pull requests for the Wiki could I type out a dew suggestive lines to add to the Wiki and have you do a pull request, assuming you know how to use Git. I don't know how to use Git, and I have on numerous occasions tried to learn in but frequently get brain blocked, I basically get overwhelmed by all the terms and phrases, all the buttons in the GitHub GUI, all the expected ways things should be submitted. When I want to submit something I am doing it because it is on my mind and I think it would help others, I don't do any Git myself.
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UBUniversal Blue
Created by Happy_Hammy on 3/2/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Secondary HDD refusing to Mount, It also causes strange CPU Load
No enclosure but I have got a powered USB 3.0 to SATA Adapter so hopefully if the drives okay that will show it as such if I do need to remove it from the system. I'm trying my best to not need to remove it from the system at all if I can, instead I'll just wipe the Bazzite install since it's new and try out other Distributions of Linux to see if the issue persists across different Linux variations, if it does then I'll do a quick check in a live Windows PE Environment, and if it fails there too then it's Officially Done. It's not a major loss, but I would rather not need to have to pay out for another drive if I can avoid needing to do so. I'm not made of money and this is meant to be a relatively low cost system made from odd parts that I already had + some cheap but necessary upgrades to core Components that simply can't be ignored (like the power supply).
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UBUniversal Blue
Created by Happy_Hammy on 3/2/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Secondary HDD refusing to Mount, It also causes strange CPU Load
Given the age of the drive I am for now going to assume that the drive is dead, it is a 1TB Seagate drive that is around 15-Years old. Their is a non-zero chance that during me moving the drive it has somehow experienced a big enough vibration to be damaged even just slightly but enough to cause it to have issues. I am extremely careful with hardware most of the time, but I will admit that sometimes I may jolt a piece of hardware suddenly when trying to move cables and other things like that out of the way of whatever I am doing, and so that action could conceivably cause maybe a G-Force of Possibly as much as 5G-6G. I am not sure how resilient these late-2010's HDD's are but if it has failed then at least that would answer why I am having issues. I will report back once I have checked the drive in other OS's to see if the behaviour is consistent between OS's, including different LiveOS's.
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UBUniversal Blue
Created by Happy_Hammy on 3/2/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Secondary HDD refusing to Mount, It also causes strange CPU Load
I have confirmed their is no RAID volumes active on my system.
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UBUniversal Blue
Created by Happy_Hammy on 3/2/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Secondary HDD refusing to Mount, It also causes strange CPU Load
Well, the drive doesn't seem to have any fstab entries (which is really strange). Because the system uses BTRFS everything is using UUID's instead of standard drive names such as /dev/sdXX or /dev/nvmeXXXXXX (This system doesn't support NVMe currently, I would need to install a PCI-E card to add support for it.) So I don't actually know which one would be the combined Raid 0 volume. All the relevant partitions appear, at least for running the OS, things like "/boot", "/", "/boot/efi", "/home", &, "/var". But their is no sign of the size of these volumes either, and when using KDE Partition Manager the drives just appear as their Encrypted BTRFS volumes, again with no indication of the existence of any Raid configuration in the GUI. Although because I have never and would never use Raid 0 in such a setup I don't actually know how KDE Partition Manager even displays a Raid 0 configuration if one is present. I shall see what commands I can find Online for listing active Raid Volumes on the system.
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UBUniversal Blue
Created by Happy_Hammy on 3/2/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Secondary HDD refusing to Mount, It also causes strange CPU Load
I'll give fstab a shot and see what it shows. I wasn't aware that by default it setup drives in Raid 0, I must have glossed over that the first two times I followed the installation instructions, this time around I didn't follow the instructions until much later in the process so it is possible I missed mention of Raid 0 being a default config option when multiple drives are selected. Given my preferences for data reliability Raid 0 is not something I would want anyway, so if fstab does suggest that Raid 0 is in use then I shall reinstall and make sure to avoid that bump in the road.
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UBUniversal Blue
Created by Shartking on 11/11/2024 in #🛟bazzite-help
Audio only outputting stereo even when setting to 5.1 or 7.1
Surround Sound Audio under Linux has been an absolute pain in the rear for the entire time that I have been using Linux as my primary OS. Be glad that 5.1 & 7.1 are even detected as possible options within BazziteOS in ANY form, for most Linux Distributions 5.1 & 7.1 Surround Sound aren't often available as Output options, at least when you're using Optical Audio Out for the interface type, regardless of the Audio Co-Processor that your particular Motherboard or USB/PCI-E Attached Audio Device uses. My solution so far has been to rely on Arch Linux based Distributions as they seem to be the only Distribution type that has consistently allowed me to utilise 5.1 & 7.1 Surround Sound as a Output option. A lot of this is caused by a lack of people that actively run 5.1 & 7.1 Surround Sound Systems while using a Linux-based Computer, additional friction is caused by the fact that most Audio Formats, but especially those used for Surround Sound, are Proprietary, Closed-Source, and, Require a Per-Device License, as well as a Commercial Distribution License in order to be accessed, these License's are NOT Cheap. Linux currently as a community doesn't have enough funds to Pay for the Developers & Hardware resources needed to overcome these limitations by developing truly Free & Open-Source replacement solutions that are fully Compatible with the Proprietary Closed-Source Standards without at all relying on the need to pay for any subsequent Licencing that the Proprietary Closed-Source Software License Holders require you to have in order to use your hardware the way you want to use it. So, in short, you can blame excessive Licensing Fee's and Limited Appeal to develop Free & Open-Source replacement solutions for the core reasons as to why 5.1, 7.1, and other Surround Sound formats are not currently widely supported under Linux. As for the BazziteOS Gamemode Specific problems it sounds like it is defaulting to a "Stock" mode for Audio Output when you switch to Gamemode.
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UBUniversal Blue
Created by Happy_Hammy on 1/6/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Anaconda Installer not Showing the GUI
So this was the solution; 1• Remove all the display outputs on the secondary GPU. 2• Remove all but 1 display output on the primary GPU 3• Start the computer and go through the entire installation process using 1 Display. 4• After installation has finished shutdown, plug in all of your displays again, then boot back up. 5• Success.
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UBUniversal Blue
Created by pastrami on 5/28/2024 in #🛟bazzite-help
Can anyone get ckb-next working?
The issue is that really CKB-Next needs to be rebased to work with Wayland, you're best off reaching out to the developer of CKB-Next via GitHub, and, opening a new issue over there if one doesn't already exist that requests a move to Wayland. Relyjng on XWayland won't be an option forever so the software will have to make the switch eventually.
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UBUniversal Blue
Created by Happy_Hammy on 1/6/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Anaconda Installer not Showing the GUI
To note, I have TWO AMD Graphics Cards Installed, they are a REQUIREMENT of my current setup, if Bazzite isn't going to be compatible with such a Hardaare Configuration then I will save everyone a lot of time if that's the issue and simply use a different Distribution instead, such is the way things go sometimes. GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro W5700 8GB GPU 2: AMD Radeon VII 16GB Both Graphics Cards work fine under Arch Linux (EndeavourOS Derivative).
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UBUniversal Blue
Created by Happy_Hammy on 1/6/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Anaconda Installer not Showing the GUI
If you couldn't tell, I've dealt with Manjaro Linux being broken before, so I know some basics in regards to navigating the TTY, but I've stuck as to how to fix this, and I haven't even managed to install the OS yet. Additionally under TTY4 (CTRL+ALT+F4) it keeps on saying things about a WiFi Scanning Process and also Bluetooth being unsupported, which is strange because I am not even that far into the installation process yet to need those components..... Why are they triggering like that? Maybe it is a unrelated bug in the OS? Something to keep in mind that may be worth looking at, especially as it could be slowing down the Boot Up of the OS. I have included some poor smartphone photos for reference. Thanks to anyone that can help!
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