Justin They are mostly working, just HotS, Hearthstone and W3:Reforged beta that are crashing once I hit the play button/launch then. I got a bit better and could not install anything, just use lutris install script, but point it for my already installed battle.net app and launching all games from it. I had to reinstall Solus though, because I installed all the DEs as explained in the help center, then I removed everything letting only budgie and tryed to reinstall lightdm, when I rebooted I couldn't login, so I had to reinstall since as a noob I would't know how to fix it.

At least, now I can learn Linux as I wanted. I didn't log in windows since I got it working haha.

      Soultrigger Good to hear you got it working, I've re-installed Solus so many times it's not a number any more. But I learnt each time from my mistakes. Just remember your backups and any mistake is easy to learn from. 😁

        7 days later

        @Justin That has not gone well, in fact, I need help fixing a subsequent issue as a result of attempting to do it myself.
        watched several how-to videos on youtube, none addressed the issue i was having. Searching the Solus Forums, i found an post about DRI3, thinking it might help, i used nano to create the file, and upon reboot, only see the Solus login in blue letters in top-left. After logging in, i attempted to remove that specific file from the Konsole/Terminal, which has failed to produce positive results. the OS is not accessible past what I have described.

        Any instructions? And, TY guys for being great!

          @Justin Sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf

          contained this:
          Section "Device"
          Identifier "Intel Graphics"
          Driver "intel"
          Option "DRI" "3" # DRI3 is now default
          Option "TearFree" "true"
          Option "AccelMethod" "sna" # default
          Option "AccelMethod" "uxa" # fallback
          EndSection

          I honestly do not know if i miss-spelled the name of the file, as i attempted to remove it from the "konsole/Terminal" input i found when loggin into the system in upper-left blue letters.
          i don't yet know how to search that individual folder for it's contents, and to remove that file. Also, I may have accidentally removed "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"

            catfishsushi I don't have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf, did you create one before to fix something?

            As for /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf did you succeed in removing it when you logged in to the TTY?

              @Justin yes, i created the file in an attempt to remedy/correct an after watching many youtube videos on how to fix most common issues with Lutris not working correctly. One of the issue flags was about a DIR3 not being present, so, searching the forums, i found how to create the file, and based on the success of the Poster's positive responses, made the file and rebooted......to a TTY.....so, any tips on how to get the contents of the /etc/X11 file in TTY and look for the offending file and possibly replace any correct one(s) i may have deleted by accident?

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                catfishsushi
                so you still have only a TTY on boot?
                -> login

                • cd /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d (-> cd = change directory)
                • now that you are in your xorg.conf.d directory type ls to list the content of the directory. You should see your
                  20-intel.conf file
                  you can just use nano again to edit the file. Looking at your content, i thing there can only be one line for Option "AccelMethod". Two lines, one with option sna and another with option uxa doesn't seem right.

                But first, i would remove your /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf and /etc/X11/xorg.conf (if exist). Or maybe just rename it to 20-intel.conf.bak / xorg.conf.bak first

                renaming on TTY can be done via the mv command, so it would be:
                sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf.bak for example

                If both, 20-intel.conf and xorg.conf are renamed, you should reboot (sudo reboot) and get to a GUI again.

                By the way, the TAB key is your friend on TTY for auto-completion. Just type the first letters of a folder/file and the TAB key auto-completes - misspelling is no problem anymore 😁

                  Just to let you know, as I said HotS, HS, and W3:Reforged were crashing once you run those. The fix was quite simple, on lutris, right click and go for winetricks and then add/install dll and install: d3dcompíler_47.dll and d3dx11_42.dll. All those games will stop crashing and run on dxvk/esync without issues.

                  @[deleted] Thank you kind one! Information will be tried out ASAP. BTW, what does the "bak" stand for?
                  @Soultrigger I have noted/written down the info and I will try that quickly!. I was thinking Lutris was having issues due to a possible me not configuring it correctly, having 3 monitors and the program not knowing which one to be on. Sad thing: i paid for FF-XIV on BOTH Steam & SquareEnix....ouch.... 🙁

                    catfishsushi bak is short for backup. it's a common convention for saving a backup of a file such that a script looking for *.conf files won't find something ending in .conf.bak 😀

                        @[deleted] That worked! Thanks! i now have my Primary Drive back in operation.
                        @Soultrigger I tried adding those files, but still not working. It either starts up and shows 1280 x 760 box with the FF-XIV Logo, and does nothing, or crashes outright.

                        [deleted] How to remove/purge all of the Lutris, WineTricks, Wine, & Steam files from my Primary drive? the "eopkg rmf --purge"
                        says no files to remove?

                        Thanks!

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                            catfishsushi is that really what you want to do? Remove everything? Well depends on what you want to achive. The installed packages can be removed with sudo eopkg rm <packagename> (lutris, wine, winetricks, steam), but i guess you know that (--purge can be added to the operation, i don't know the rmf option, i'm not on solus atm). But all that won't remove your installed games and stuff. You must remove that manually. Everything installed through lutris usually goes to /home/<your name>/.local/share/lutris (you need to enable hidden files in your file manager to see the hidden dot folders like .local, .config....easiest way: shortcut CTRL + H. So you could just delete the whole folder <lutris> over there. Maybe have a look at /home/<your name>/.wine (hidden dot folder again), if that one exists. Steam games go to /home/<your name>/.local/share/Steam (you see the pattern? 😁 ). There could be more stuff in /home/<your name>/.config for example. Maybe use the search but it can be ignored i would say. Usually in .config the config for something is stored (as the folder name implies) - data goes to the .local folder.
                            Hope that helps 😀

                              @[deleted] Thanks for the info! Very helpful and informative! 🙂
                              How are you with Network skills? I have had issues from a persistent pest that my ISP will not deal with anymore. Any help would be greatly appreciated !!! 🙂

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                                catfishsushi thanks, it's nice to be appreciated 😅
                                As for your network question, i would suggest you create a separate post/topic for that one. Then hope the best that people can help you. Maybe even i can help..... 😁

                                Edit: Forgot to say, that you were right. When i was back on my solus i checked and saw, there is indeed the rmf option for eopkg (stupid me, always rm'd followed by rmo)