I have Endeavour Mercury installed on my Thinkpad, and I have tried installing steam from flatpak and from pacman, but when i open it then it crashes, if it doesnt crash, then going to another tab on steam does make it crash. I’ve updated my system, and when installing steam, i install the vulkan-radeon packages for steam, because my Thinkpad has an AMD CPU/iGPU. Someone, please help
Welcome to the community! 
Need some clarity here:
- Does your laptop crash?
- Or does Steam crash?
Also, have you met Ted?
And lastly, please post the outputs of the following:
inxi -Fxxc0z
pacman -Q | grep -A 0 -E "(nvidia|amd|intel|linux|headers)"
Firstly, my laptop crashes. secondly the output of those commands are, respectively:
System:
Kernel: 6.12.13-1-lts arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.2.5 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM
Distro: EndeavourOS base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 20KV000YUS v: ThinkPad E585
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: LENOVO model: 20KV000YUS v: SDK0J40697 WIN
serial: <superuser required>
part-nu: LENOVO_MT_20KV_BU_Think_FM_ThinkPad E585 UEFI: LENOVO
v: R0UET84W (1.64 ) date: 11/28/2023
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 16.6 Wh (97.1%) condition: 17.1/45.0 Wh (38.0%)
volts: 12.3 min: 11.1 model: LGC 01AV445 serial: <filter> status: charging
CPU:
Info: quad core model: AMD Ryzen 7 2700U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx
bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen rev: 0 cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 2 MiB
L3: 4 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2847 min/max: 1600/2200 boost: enabled cores: 1: 2847
2: 2847 3: 2847 4: 2847 5: 2847 6: 2847 7: 2847 8: 2847 bogomips: 35148
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Raven Ridge [Radeon Vega Series
/ Radeon Mobile Series] vendor: Lenovo driver: amdgpu v: kernel
arch: GCN-5 pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: eDP-1
empty: DP-1,DP-2,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:15dd temp: 72.0 C
Device-2: Chicony Integrated Camera (1280x720@30) driver: uvcvideo
type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-2:3 chip-ID: 04f2:b604
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.15 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.5
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: Lenovo 0x40ba res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142
diag: 395mm (15.5")
API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi device: 1 drv: swrast
gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi wayland: drv: radeonsi x11:
drv: radeonsi
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 24.3.4-arch1.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon Vega 3 / 10 Graphics
(radeonsi raven LLVM 19.1.7 DRM 3.59 6.12.13-1-lts) device-ID: 1002:15dd
display-ID: :1.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.303 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland device: 0
type: integrated-gpu driver: N/A device-ID: 1002:15dd
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info
x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP
Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s
lanes: 16 bus-ID: 05:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:15de
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h/19h/1ah HD Audio
vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 05:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3
API: ALSA v: k6.12.13-1-lts status: kernel-api
Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off
Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.2.7 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Lenovo driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
port: 3000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8822BE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WiFi adapter vendor: Lenovo
driver: rtw_8822be v: N/A pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 2000
bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:b822
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8822BE Bluetooth 4.2 Adapter driver: btusb v: 0.8
type: USB rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-1:4 chip-ID: 0bda:b023
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: down bt-service: disabled
rfk-block: hardware: no software: no address: N/A
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 685.61 GiB used: 46.32 GiB (6.8%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Lenovo model: LENSE30256GMSP34MEAT3TA
size: 238.47 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 33.9 C
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: PNY model: CS1311 480GB SSD size: 447.13 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 438.06 GiB used: 46.16 GiB (10.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 72.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 72.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 29.25 GiB used: 5.26 GiB (18.0%)
Processes: 307 Power: uptime: 6h 34m wakeups: 2 Init: systemd v: 257
default: graphical
Packages: 1134 pm: pacman pkgs: 1109 pm: flatpak pkgs: 25 Compilers:
clang: 19.1.7 gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.37 running-in: konsole
inxi: 3.3.37
And:
amd-ucode 20250109.7673dffd-1
--
archlinux-keyring 20250123-1
--
linux 6.13.2.arch1-1
linux-api-headers 6.13-1
linux-firmware 20250109.7673dffd-1
linux-firmware-whence 20250109.7673dffd-1
linux-headers 6.13.2.arch1-1
linux-lts 6.12.13-1
linux-lts-headers 6.12.13-1
--
util-linux 2.40.4-1
util-linux-libs 2.40.4-1
--
vulkan-headers 1:1.4.303-1
--
xf86-video-amdgpu 23.0.0-2
Thank you!
Hmm. Seems I missed this one or forgot to respond.
Let’s try the previous LTS kernel:
yay -Syu linux-lts66 linux-lts66-headers
Next thing is that your BIOS hasn’t been updated since 2023. Is that a choice? I checked Lenovo’s site, but it doesn’t allow me to see if updates are available. So, you can try checking for updates by reviewing the following link:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Flashing_BIOS_from_Linux
If you still have Windows installed, you can use/install Lenovo Vantage to update your BIOS.
i installed the AMD AMDVLK drivers and it fixed it! thank you very much. and with the bios, i will update it soon, i thought that since it was so old, then it wouldnt have updates?
there is a newer update that looks like it was release just a couple of weeks after your version
https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/ds503790-bios-update-utility-bootable-cd-for-windows-10-64-bit-thinkpad-e485-e585
do i download the bios update iso and boot from it and use it? and it will work for and e585/e485 regardless of os or serial number? (lenovo website was asking for serial number)
I would read the documentation on the Lenovo website for what they recommend if you do not know what you are doing. Other wise I always just download the firmware update and boot into Hirens and update from within that windows environment. I didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to what the update was just saw that it was a newer version than the one you seem to have.
so i just decided to reinstall endeavour completely, however it still freezed and crashed, only one time, but still. also, with the bios, the one on the website is the same version as the one i currently have? what can i do? also, ps, when i installed endeavour again, i didnt install the lts kernels, and changed to grub instead of systemd, i decided to install the lts kernels after the install and an option to load into them is not appearing on grub.
Please help, thank you
If you’re having hardware or firmware issues, reinstalling an OS/distro will never fix the issue. Unless it’s firmware-related and the OS/distro automatically installs a firmware update for you.
When you install a kernel, you may need to regenerate your GRUB config.
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Before you do the above, though, please show the output of the below:
pacman -Q | grep -A 0 -E "(grub|systemd|dracut|mkinitcpio|linux|headers)"
ok, so i just tried updating the bios, and it says it doesnt need updated. also i did fix the boot option not appearing problem. But my installation is still crashing frequently. what do I do, please help me
Have you done a disk check?
wait, i think i know why its crashing so much now. my installation is running on an old 480 gig ssd. when i had my installation on my nvme, it wasnt crashing at all. Thank you!
Edit: my computer kept crashing. changing the ram fixed it, thank you
UPDATE: my laptop is still crashing Is it normal for endeavouros to crash so much? - #15 by ElmBroken
Please help, thanks in advance