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black screen when booting (linux)

A topic by cheesechair created Jan 31, 2024 Views: 1,124 Replies: 7
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hey

this may sound stupid but im trying this on a chromebook (hp chromebook 14a) with linux

and it just boots to a black screen


this is the terminal

thanks for the help

buh bye

i'm actually having the exact same problem! haven't found a solution yet either though :/

Unfortunately I don't have an obvious fix for you right now, but if it was an OpenGL bug it should show some kind of error, but it's not. If you press confirm (C on keyboard, A on controller) can you also hear the menu?

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Why is Mesa VirGL driver used? Are you running the game in a virtual machine (Qemu)? Ohhhh... Chromebook :/

Edit: if you're desperate, maybe try the software renderer:

$ LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=true ./Celeste64

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For what is worth, it's working fine for me on Fedora 39 (nvidia).

I'm having this same issue on the Linux partition on my Chromebook. Did you ever find a solution?

best solution afaik is to use software rendering like BloodScourge suggested, which can be enabled by running

export LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=true

Thank you, that did it!