Live USB blank screen

rick0612

Hi All,

First my setup:
Gygabyte B550 MoBo
AMD Ryzen 5 5500 CPU
Nvidia GTX 1070 GPU

The Solus 4.3 KDE live USB will not go to desktop. I get the Solus (KDE) screen but when it goes from there, blank screen.
The Budgie, Gnome and Mate versions all boot to desktop.
I used the same USB stick and the same software to create all four bootables.
Two downloads and sha checks of the KDE version were good.
I believe there is a bug in the KDE version.
It did install in a Virtualbox VM.
Just tried it on a spare laptop and it went to the desktop. Perhaps it is just my desktop PC setup?
What are your thoughts?

Would love to try Solus but I am partial to KDE.

tomscharbach

rick0612 Just tried it on a spare laptop and it went to the desktop. Perhaps it is just my desktop PC setup? What are your thoughts?

Based on what you are reporting, the issue sounds like an incompatibility between Solus Plasma 4.3's Live install and the Nvidia GTX 1070. KDE is not similar to any of the other Gnome-based DE's (Budgie, Gnome, Mate), a VM masks hardware issues in many cases, and your spare laptop probably has a different GPU setup, all of which might account for the differences you report.

I did about a half hour's research into black screen, KDE and the GTX 1070 and found numerous issues reported, all with other distros, but none of that research yielded anything worth reporting other than to try nomodeset as a possible workaround.

I do not personally use Nvida at all any more, but I hope that NVIDIA experts will comment quickly.

rick0612 Would love to try Solus but I am partial to KDE.

Solus Plasma is a superb KDE implementation. I use it as do many, many others in this forum. If you are just trying out Solus to see if it is a distro you might be interested in using going forward, you might work with the implementations in your VM or on your spare laptop for a while to see if Solus Plasma is worth pursuing.

WetGeek

rick0612 Would love to try Solus but I am partial to KDE.

Plasma user here, too. The Solus .IDE files are old, and don't install the drivers needed for the newest computers. The team is working hard on getting new ones released, but they don't announce ETAs, as a matter of policy. It should be quite soon, though. They're well aware that it's a serious problem for users of the newest hardware.

rick0612

Thanks for the replies. Guess I'll have to put KDE Neon on that particular PC and wait for the team to fix Solus Plasma.
Thanks again.

tomscharbach

rick0612 Guess I'll have to put KDE Neon on that particular PC and wait for the team to fix Solus Plasma.

Unless one of the Nvidia experts shows up today with suggestions, that makes sense. Sorry about my inability to help. The Ryzen 5 5500 CPU doesn't have onboard graphics capabilities; if it did, the fix would be simple. KDE Neon is built on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, deploys the 5.15 kernel, and uses x-graphics. KDE Neon had a lot of issues with the Nvidia 1070 GTX a few years ago (2016-2017), but those seem to have been resolved. I didn't find any reports of current issues in a quick search.