Bluefin randomly freezes

Bluefin
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I tried Bluefin again today, and it froze again. So it’s not fixable on Bluefin right now? Does Bluefin have a version with the Bazzite kernel?

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Yes - bluefin-hwe, or bluefin-dx-hwe if you want the developer version.

rpm-ostree rebase ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bluefin-hwe:latest
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I’m going to try this. Should I switch back to the regular kernel at some point?

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If it works it works. I’ve been using -hwe (previously -asus, but I think they’re the same?) for a year without any issues.

You could switch back to stable once the kernel in that gets updated.

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Well, it didn’t work. It froze on -hwe.

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At this point I feel like you’d probably want to give up, but if you want to persist, did do the other important point from my earlier post? This part was critical for me:

  • Using the hwe:latest image, and testing out different combinations of:
    • Refresh rate (60Hz worked for me)
    • Adaptive sync (“Always” worked for me)

And did you try this one?

  • Going back to a build before November (i.e. keep going back in time month-by-month until you find something stable)

You can find all the images here: Package bluefin · GitHub

No doubt there’s a way to actually troubleshoot this and discover the root cause, but I don’t have the skill for that so I’m just sharing what bypassed the issue for me.

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I’m not going to go back to older builds. I have the refresh rate at 60Hz, but I can’t find the setting for Adaptive sync. Where would I find this?

Thanks

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Hi there,

I have a similar issue with bluefin-dx-nvidia:stable. it imo started after setting up my Librewolf for hw acceleration and enabling VRR in Gnome.
I’m currently trying MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0, because I’ve set this to 1 for the hw acceleration.
ujust logs-last-boot gives me:

Mär 05 13:46:27 kernel: nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: Error while waiting for GPU progress: 0x0000c77d:0 5:0:3620:3600

You can enbale VRR with:

gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features “[‘variable-refresh-rate’,‘scale-monitor-framebuffer’]”

maybe needs sudo.

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I tried again last week, and it looks like everything is working. I booted into Bluefin and updated it, and it hasn’t frozen in a week. I’m on—hwe.

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Same here.
Looks like disabling VRR worked in the end. But can’t say for sure it was the fix. Some updates were installed too.