Since last weekend update to my OS based on Arch, vital interface is now showing black, although I can still interact and the audio still works properly.
During my attempts, I tried standalone and through reaper and bitwig. Vital tends to crash on opening, but when it works, it’s a black interface. VST3, CLAP, and standalone version, same issue across the board.
Only output I am getting from standalone via the terminal is this:
fish: Job 1, ‘Vital’ terminated by signal SIGKILL (Forced quit)
My ram usage barely goes up, and I had over 20Gb free at the time of testing.
After few attempts, the synth may open but with the black interface, and the ability to produce sound.
The system is running in wayland, and bitwig/vital run trhough Xwayland, which was not an issue before.
I suspect the fact that I am on AMD and a new major version of mesa was pushed (26.0.1).
Any help to try to figure it out would be greatly appreciated. Cheers
Ok so, I suspect the issue to happen more as 26.x is rolled out on more distributions, leaving this for the future:
I got time to downgrade the graphic drivers to mesa 25.3.5 and vital now has an interface again, as expected. Every mesa libs (that are not provided directly by the driver) are still running on the 26.0.1 base.
It is either an issue on the side of the core driver, or in how vital interface handles rendering. I don’t expect this to be looked into as this project seems abandoned.
I’ll update this post when a new mesa update is pushed for informative purposes. But for now, vital being the only affected plugins/software, I will use something else.
what I mean is that on other threads people mentioned not getting a reply from support in 2 months etc, I don’t think the synth has been updated in couple years either.
I may try and see if I can report the issue somewhere around mesa development, in case it is related to a bug there, otherwise, I think we are out of luck and Vital will fade out from being usable on linux once every distro runs mesa 26+.
For a bit of an update, mesa 26.0.3 now and the issue remains.
I’m on Manjaro Stable, which just today updated to Mesa 26 (26.0.2). Running GNOME on Wayland w/ AMD graphics, I have this issue, but I’m not seeing it on my laptop running Cinnamon/Xorg/Intel graphics. I really hope this is fixable, I’d be gutted to no longer be able to use Vital consistently on my Linux machines.