Jump to content

Recommended Posts

Posted

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.

image.thumb.png.cc480ca14df35121df24cae1780985f3.png

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:

image.thumb.png.42f6fa9a9a93f0979a2895068c2019d4.png

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

Posted

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:

image.png.7a254337d2218bafdf3ddc77fa36ea05.png

Posted (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 by Pils
Posted

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.

image.png.0a0ade52b338e83a9d0805c552dc820f.png

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

Posted

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.

 

Posted

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?)

Posted

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!

  • Like 1

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

Loading...
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...