I got Bazzite Gnome installed on my Legion Go. When I connect an eGPU and I’m clicking on anything or try to drag a windows, the computer completely freezes, only a hard reboot solves it. I’m using Gnome because it has a virtual keyboard I can use with a mouse on external display. The funny thing …

I didn’t have to use anything on KDE so I have no idea what to do

According to my experience KDE has better hotplug support but using all-ways-egpu script with method 2+3 or method 1 is delivering better performance under KDE. Regarding Gnome itself I was never able to get egpu running without using that script (last time I checked was 2023 honestly). In case you …

@Zetarancio Are you running into hard locks from sleep/wake? I have a Legion Go and I am experiencing this where my device is able to sleep but freezes on wake. My device doesn’t turn on but the eGPU does.

Sleep undee egpu does not work correctly under any combination of circustance/device/linux distro I owned or tried :partying_face:

That’s my understanding as well. I will create a DRM bug as it’s likely the driver causing the lock ups :(. BTW, are you also experiencing similar issues with sleep/wake where the device hard locks on wake?

Unfortunately I currently use my ayaneo geek 1s and it has its own issue with sleep (as detailed in the wiki) which is solvable but not permanent untill ayaneo drops (eventually) a bios fix. So I can’t really tell for sure if the hard lock is related to the egpu, but: -when fix is applied it freeze…

@Zetarancio I narrowed this down due to an upstream kernel bug with the Thunderbolt drivers. See: 219422 – Hard crash when USB4 cable is disconnected during sleep Hard lock with External GPU on sleep/wake cycle (#3706) · Issues · drm / amd · GitLab

@Zetarancio I may have a fix! You need to create a system unit to unbind the amdgpu drivers before sleep. My eGPU is now able to sleep/resume without hangups. I outlined the rough steps here: Hard lock with External GPU on sleep/wake cycle (#3706) · Issues · drm / amd · GitLab

Bazzite freezes with eGPU

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Zetarancio June 3, 2024, 4:10pm 2

Are you using all-ways-egpu script for setting up egpu?

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