ckochandClaude Fable 5
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Sunshine segfaults (exit 139, crash loop) probing the Vulkan H.264 encoder on the BC-250 — the GPU has no VCN/video-encode hardware and the failed probe crashes instead of falling through. Software x264 is the only viable encoder on this chip anyway. Seeded only if no config exists, so user edits are never overwritten. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
bc250-console
A custom Bazzite GNOME (bootc) image for the AMD BC-250, built as a kid-friendly couch gaming console with remote parent administration. Recipes build with BlueBuild; the installer ISO comes from bootc-image-builder; installed consoles update over-the-air from this Gitea's container registry.
Image: git.lazypugs.com/ckoch/bc250-console-gnome:latest
Recipe: recipes/bc250-console-gnome.yml
What it adds on top of bazzite-gnome:stable
| Area | Change |
|---|---|
| GPU | cyan-skillfish-governor-smu (BC-250 DVFS governor, from the filippor COPR), enabled |
| Memory | ttm.pages_limit / ttm.page_pool_size kargs so the GPU can use the full 16 GB shared GDDR6 |
| Remote admin | openssh-server (enabled); Sunshine auto-serves the kid's session to Moonlight; tailscaled enabled. (RDP via bc250-remote-setup exists but is blocked by a mutter/GFX1013 crash) |
| Console behavior | All suspend paths masked, no screen lock/dim, GNOME animations off — always on, always reachable |
| Kid experience | Steam Big Picture autostarts for the kid account only |
| Apps | First-boot flatpaks: ProtonUp-Qt, Heroic, RetroDECK, Prism Launcher (Minecraft) — Steam, Firefox, auto-updates already in the Bazzite base |
| Cloud gaming | GeForce NOW native Linux app (beta) auto-installed on first boot from NVIDIA's flatpak repo — note the BC-250 has no hardware video decode, so streams decode on CPU; keep to 1080p |
| Fixes | hhd.service masked (crash-loops on BC-250) |
| Docs | Parent manual baked at /usr/share/doc/bc250-console/OPERATIONS.md |
Accounts
Build with build-console.sh + your console.env to
bake real usernames, passwords, and display names directly into the ISO
(see BUILD-CONSOLE.md). Without it, the ISO bakes the placeholder users
from iso-config.toml: parent (admin/wheel) and kid
(standard), passwords to change on first login.
The kid's account can be renamed post-install (see OPERATIONS.md) — the
Big Picture autostart follows CONSOLE_KID_USER in /etc/bc250-console.conf.
⚠️ The installer wipes the first disk with no prompts. Don't boot it on a machine whose disk you care about.
Documentation
BUILD-CONSOLE.md— build the image, generate the ISO, publish OTA updates (verified podman and docker paths, with workarounds)OPERATIONS.md— day-2 admin: connecting, installing games remotely, updates/rollback, GPU tuning, health checksWIRING.md— PSU/mains wiring, J1000 pinout, power-switch design (AC rocker + AUTO_PWRON), fans, first power-onBIOS-FLASH.md— backup + flash the modded firmware via the J4004 header, then the VRAM/IOMMU settings (ROMs are local-only, not in this repo)
Hardware prerequisites (on the board, not in the image)
Modded BIOS (see mothenjoyer69/bc250-documentation), then BIOS settings: 512 MB dynamic VRAM, IOMMU disabled, auto power-on.
Credits
Forked from 62fixolab/Latest-Bazzite-AMD-BC-250-Patched-Images, which builds on vietsman's patched images and filippor/cyan-skillfish-governor, on top of ublue-os/bazzite. The 40-CU experimental tooling from upstream is intentionally not included — this image stays on the stable 24-CU configuration.