Is there any other disk mounted on the system?
Edit
What is the output of
lsblk
on the teminal?

    stylste

    I got this error when running sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/nvme0n1 bs=1M

    dd: error writing '/nvme0n1': No space left on device
    1+0 records in
    0+0 records out
    0 bytes copied, 0.000540503 s, 0.0 kB/s

    edit: I just changed the command to sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nvme0n1 bs=1M

    it appears to be running (no errors yet). In top it shows dd running at 90% CPU 🙂

    edit #2: Okay, weird, it ran for a while, but then still gave me an error:

    dd: error writing '/dev/nvme0n1': No space left on device
    953870+0 records in
    953869+0 records out
    1000204886016 bytes (1.0 TB, 932 GiB) copied, 784.706 s, 1.3 GB/s

    I'm learning a metric ton! Now what?

      Install nvme-cli to check your disk for errors
      sudo eopkg install nvme-cli
      and run it
      sudo nvme smart-log /dev/nvme0n1

        It did not like that. TON of "failed" errors when installing the pkg. Like, dozens.

        Says no space left on device. Going to reboot live USB and try again.

        stylste

        here's the output from sudo nvme smart-log /dev/nvme0n1

        critical_warning : 0
        temperature : 45 C
        available_spare : 100%
        available_spare_threshold : 10%
        percentage_used : 0%
        data_units_read : 17,305
        data_units_written : 2,058,962
        host_read_commands : 241,815
        host_write_commands : 2,122,446
        controller_busy_time : 14
        power_cycles : 24
        power_on_hours : 1
        unsafe_shutdowns : 10
        media_errors : 0
        num_err_log_entries : 33
        Warning Temperature Time : 0
        Critical Composite Temperature Time : 0
        Temperature Sensor 1 : 45 C
        Temperature Sensor 2 : 54 C
        Thermal Management T1 Trans Count : 0
        Thermal Management T2 Trans Count : 0
        Thermal Management T1 Total Time : 0
        Thermal Management T2 Total Time : 0

          stylste

          output appears to be the same

          Smart Log for NVME device:nvme0n1 namespace-id:ffffffff
          critical_warning : 0
          temperature : 45 C
          available_spare : 100%
          available_spare_threshold : 10%
          percentage_used : 0%
          data_units_read : 17,312
          data_units_written : 2,058,962
          host_read_commands : 241,954
          host_write_commands : 2,122,446
          controller_busy_time : 14
          power_cycles : 24
          power_on_hours : 1
          unsafe_shutdowns : 10
          media_errors : 0
          num_err_log_entries : 34
          Warning Temperature Time : 0
          Critical Composite Temperature Time : 0
          Temperature Sensor 1 : 45 C
          Temperature Sensor 2 : 54 C
          Thermal Management T1 Trans Count : 0
          Thermal Management T2 Trans Count : 0
          Thermal Management T1 Total Time : 0
          Thermal Management T2 Total Time : 0

            same output as last time:
            dd: error writing '/dev/nvme0n1': No space left on device
            953870+0 records in
            953869+0 records out
            1000204886016 bytes (1.0 TB, 932 GiB) copied, 759.482 s, 1.3 GB/s

            I'm trying to understand exactly what this is doing, so let me break it down, tell me where I'm wrong.

            I'm formatting an empty drive that's never had anything but 2 previous installations of Solus on it in order to get properly load the amdgpu drivers so two monitors will display. And now this brand new Samsung EVO 970 is broken? Which is why we're checking using nvme?

            How did you formated your disk earlier?

            Justin I believe I am -- I will double check when I run the install again tomorrow.

            @stylste GPT, I believe. The option that says "2TB and over" IIRC.

              @Justin and @stylste alright, I'm back!

              • I selected "automatically partition this empty disk and install a fresh copy of Solus"
              • I checked "use LVM in the new installation and did not check encryption
              • I enter the name of the computer
              • "Install a bootloader" is checked (with the SSD selected)

              Going through the install (again, time #3). Let's see what happens I guess.

              @Justin @stylste

              Update: no change. When I boot into Solus, the displays turn off. I have to ctrl + alt + f2 to get to tty, reboot, and set nomodeset to get in to the OS. Monitor is still 'unknown' and doesn't recognize there are two of them plugged in, despite the fact it works fine on Live USB.

              I don't expect it to "just work", but days just trying to get a monitor working by formatting a hard drive is starting to make me feel a little insane, lol. There's got to be something easy I'm missing.

                Justin Hey, I really appreciate you trying to help me! If you happen to wake up in a cold sweat at 3AM with the idea, let me know.

                For now I'm just going to have to go back to Windows 🙁