lillita Posted January 26 Report Posted January 26 I have just purchased the Challenger 650 and was very exited to start using it! However when I have started it up (i.e. battery on, APU avail and APU gen on) there is nothing displayed on the monitors. I have dug around similar forum posts which blame this on Zink, however I am not able to even (de-)select Zink as an option: I have attached my Log, but at a quick glance myself I don't see any obvious cause. Any ideas of things I could try? Log.txt
lillita Posted January 26 Author Report Posted January 26 Just been doing some further testing for this. Disabling all my plugins (I do have quite a few!) hasn't helped, and I notice that when I select a screen to get the popup, the display content is invisible there:
Pils Posted January 26 Report Posted January 26 (edited) Because you're using an AMD GPU, you're probably going to need to start X-Plane with --zink command line option. Please send a Log.txt with this option enabled and all third party plugins removed. Thanks. (What version of SUSE is this? We've never seen anyone use this distro before.) P.S. You absolutely don't need SkunkCraftsUpdater anymore: https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/292710-skunkcrafts-updater-standalone-client/ Edited January 26 by Pils
lillita Posted January 26 Author Report Posted January 26 Hi Pils, thanks for the quick response! I am running X-Plane through Steam (and unfortunately cannot run it without, as it insists on having Steam's environmental setup to start). Sadly, this seems to also prevent using the --zink option… log attached regardless. I am running openSUSE Tumbleweed, further details below. # System Details Report --- ## Report details - **Date generated:** 2025-01-26 22:11:19 ## Hardware Information: - **Hardware Model:** ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. TUF GAMING X570-PLUS - **Memory:** 24.0 GiB - **Processor:** AMD Ryzen™ 7 3700X × 16 - **Graphics:** AMD Radeon™ RX 7800 XT - **Disk Capacity:** 2.6 TB ## Software Information: - **Firmware Version:** 5013 - **OS Name:** openSUSE Tumbleweed - **OS Build:** (null) - **OS Type:** 64-bit - **GNOME Version:** 47 - **Windowing System:** Wayland - **Kernel Version:** Linux 6.13.0-1-default Log.txt
Pils Posted January 26 Report Posted January 26 That complicates things, unfortunately. LR have not been able to resolve this issue between themselves, Valve, and AMD, in almost 2 years. More details: https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/284304-x-plane-amd-zink-what-you-should-know/#comment-2514942 This may be something you have to reach out to LR support for. I'm not sure how to force Zink to be enabled. They may have a better workaround than what's mentioned here: https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/284304-x-plane-amd-zink-what-you-should-know/&page=7#comment-2517682 A user of our Discord said this: Quote The Solution was the LD_PRELOAD as mentioned in the thread you linked. But it initially didn‘t work as I had Steam installed as a flatpak which doesn‘t allow LD_PRELOAD. So the only way ist to install it natively and then use the above mentioned workaround. If you want the actual parameter you have to enter in the game settings in Steam I can provide that but the linked thread specifically asked not to share that so I would only do it on request here.
Pils Posted January 26 Report Posted January 26 The unappealing alternative is to purchase X-Plane 12 direct from LR. (Maybe they'd offer a coupon/discount if you speak to Support as this is their technical issue?)
lillita Posted January 26 Author Report Posted January 26 Ah, this kind of thing is where I thrive! I've set Steam's launch options to: LD_PRELOAD="/srv/steam/steamapps/common/X-Plane 12/Resources/dlls/64/zink/libGL.so" %command% --zink Which has actually worked! Very pleased! Hopefully Valve/AMD/LR can eventually agree on something… Thanks for your help! 1
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