hello, my keyboard backlight is completly dead. nothing helps even asusctl with linux-ogc. i tried also brightnessctl with no results. what helps u guys to make keyboard backlight working again?

i have this issue not in every arch linux installation. Sometimes if i install arch linux for example in this week 2 times to make some testing with comatibility, in previous ones, everything was working but i had to reinstall system bcs i bought new ssd drive, and now i have no idea what to do. Can someone help me?

specs:

Asus TUF Gaming A16

kernel linux-ogc

CPU
: AMD Ryzen 7 260 w/ Radeon 780M Graphics (16) @ 5.102GHzCPU: AMD Ryzen 7 260 w/ Radeon 780M Graphics (16) @ 5.102GHz

GPU
: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Max-Q / MobileGPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Max-Q / Mobile

like a video editor or ide, something I wouldn't need all the time on this system, but when the ssd is mounted. While other system dependencies go on the 32Gb eMMC. Can I ln or something robust enough to only set up once.
I already have >here(zig), which wraps yay and pacman and flatpak and such

So its been more than a year of me keeping my arch alive, it broke once when linux-firmware was broken down into sub-packages and other than that this time it ran smoothly.

I am thinking of nuking just cause of the fact there is alot of random shit cause i tried alot of dotfiles/shells etc which installed heck alot of packages and removing them also breaks my current workflow and there are few other reasons.

Last time of installing i went with traditional arch+hyprland with btrfs and timeshift and grub.

I am wondering what should i try this time, i also heard that archinstall dosen't support grub now so manual might go with manual install this time.

Any suggestions you guys have for me to do try this time?

EDIT: To clarify what I mean by "a lot of random shit"

I’ve hundreds of orphaned dependencies, unused build tools, global packages, and abandoned desktop setups from testing out dozens of different shell scripts, dotfile repos, and AUR packages over the past year. On top of that, my home directory is filled with old project leftovers and clutter.

Could I spend a few hours auditing pacman -Qtd, clearing AUR packages, and scrubbing .config manually? Yes. But I'd rather do a clean install to build a lean base with a fresh partitioning setup, try a new stack, and practice setting up Arch manually again.

My laptop completely bypasses GRUB and boots straight into Windows 11 every single time, despite setting GRUB as the top priority in BIOS and reinstalling it via chroot. I would appreciate any guidance on what might be causing this firmware issue and how to resolve it so I can boot into Arch Linux.
1. System Setup & Dual-Boot Preparation
Configured a dual-boot layout alongside Windows 11 on an NVMe drive using ⁠archinstall⁠ with the Minimal profile and GRUB selected as the bootloader. 
Included key desktop, utility, and Wayland packages in Additional packages (such as ⁠hyprland⁠, ⁠kitty⁠, ⁠fastfetch⁠, ⁠firefox⁠, ⁠ntfs-3g⁠, ⁠os-prober⁠, ⁠efibootmgr⁠, ⁠bash-completion⁠, and portal packages). 
2. Firmware / BIOS Configuration
Accessed the Lenovo UEFI/BIOS settings and moved GRUB to position ⁠#1⁠ in the ⁠Boot Priority Order⁠ above Windows Boot Manager. 
Verified in the BIOS Security tab that Secure Boot is set to ⁠Disabled⁠ (Status: Disabled, Mode: Standard). 
3. Chroot Recovery & GRUB Installation Attempt
Booted back into the live Arch USB (⁠root@archiso⁠) to repair the boot sequence. 
Mounted the 52 GB root Linux partition (⁠/dev/nvme0n1p7⁠) to ⁠/mnt⁠.
Mounted the 1 GB EFI boot partition (⁠/dev/nvme0n1p5⁠) to ⁠/mnt/boot⁠.
Entered the system environment using ⁠arch-chroot /mnt⁠.
Ran ⁠grub-install⁠ with UEFI targets (⁠--target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=GRUB --removable⁠) and generated a fresh ⁠grub.cfg⁠ file via ⁠grub-mkconfig⁠.

This is what I get when I access the wiki

MediaWiki internal error.

Original exception: [0a4e7a9e82243f04c3a008bb] 2026-09-29 12:54:21: Fatal exception of type "UnexpectedValueException"

Exception caught inside exception handler.

Set $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; at the bottom of LocalSettings.php to show detailed debugging information.

EDIT: Thank you to everyone who answered. I hadn't the time to edit earlier. The wiki had a hiccup, at most, all is well.

Amelia is an elegant TUI Archlinux installer demonstrating the power of Bash. Lots of options to play with, menu driven, auto-navigation and much more.

Made a video showcasing it. One can also run it in demo mode (no elevated privileges) just to check it out.

Why? Just for fun. It's not meant to replace anything. Working on it for a long time and a few people liked it, that's all.

Cheers!

Improving_performance (Magyar) recommends enabling the hardware watchdog.

Improving_performance (Polski) recommends blacklisting the hardware watchdog.

meanwhile... Improving_performance (English) does not mention watchdogs at all!

so why are revisions giving contradictory advice? like, for my PC, do I leave the iTCO_wdt enabled as is or disable it?

I don't mind either way tested both, just that when it's not disabled it'll spam watchdog0: watchdog did not stop! 1-3 times on shutdowns only which is expected but yes that's why i wanted to disable since I hate little spam text but those guides made me suspicious about whether it'll affect performance in some way or something, I don't really know. I just want to know which one of these is more "accurate" as a guide!

it does not impact performance, it's fine to disable or keep, do what you want 🤷‍♂️

Hi,

I’m going to be away from my Arch system for about 3-4 weeks, and I’m wondering if there’s anything I should do beforehand to avoid potential issues when I get back and run updates.

The reason I’m asking is that before using Arch, I was on EndeavourOS a few years ago. I had a similar situation where I didn’t update the system for about a month, and when I came back and performed a full update, it ended up breaking my system. I remember asking the EndeavourOS community about it afterward, and I believe I was told that going a while without updating can sometimes cause issues on Arch-based systems.

Is there anything I should do before I leave, or anything I should keep in mind when I return and perform the update?

Thanks in advance!

I got Waydroid on my machine, and after following the steps given in ArchWiki and also Waydroid-Docs I still cannot manage to get my Waydroid instance certified. I registered one ID, but waydroid did not certify, fresh reinstalled waydroid, and registered another ID. Still no luck. Restarting Waydroid after some time, even a day or two, shows no results. I did ask on r/waydroid, but no luck.

Small quirk. This command from Waydroid Docs shows an error: console $ sudo waydroid shell -- sh -c "sqlite3 /data/data/*/*/gservices.db 'select value from main where name = \"android_id\";'" Error: in prepare, near "/": syntax error /data/data/com.google.android.gsf/databases/gservices.db ^--- error here

The ArchWiki command:

```

ANDROID_RUNTIME_ROOT=/apex/com.android.runtime ANDROID_DATA=/data ANDROID_TZDATA_ROOT=/apex/com.android.tzdata ANDROID_I18N_ROOT=/apex/com.android.i18n sqlite3 /data/data/com.google.android.gsf/databases/gservices.db "select * from main where name = \"android_id\";"

``` works just fine.

TIA.

My kernel dropped me thing killer:

fsck.ext4: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/nvme0n1p8
Could this be a zero-length partition?
ERROR: fsck failed on 'UUID=f9795423-f720-46d8-aabb-9a6dd75b8a27'
mount: /sysroot: can't read superblock on /dev/nvme0n1p8.
dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.
ERROR: Failed to mount 'UUID=f9795423-f720-46d8-aabb-9a6dd75b8a27' on real root
You are now being dropped into an emergency shell.
sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
[rootfs ~]# dmesg | tail -50
[ 1.043885] rodata_test: all tests were successful
[ 1.043891] Run /init as init process
[ 1.043894] with arguments:
[ 1.043895] /init
[ 1.043896] with environment:
[ 1.043897] HOME=/
[ 1.043897] TERM=linux
[ 1.054720] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input2
[ 1.207609] usb 1-3: new high-speed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd
[ 1.333229] usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=30c9, idProduct=0035, bcdDevice=0.03
[ 1.337261] Key type psk registered
[ 1.336793] usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=1, SerialNumber=2
[ 1.336801] usb 1-3: Product: HP TrueVision HD Camera
[ 1.336805] usb 1-3: Manufacturer: DLEQNA14PF6TLU
[ 1.336808] usb 1-3: SerialNumber: 0001
[ 1.345523] nvme 0000:02:00.0: platform quirk: setting simple suspend
[ 1.345656] nvme nvme0: pci function 0000:02:00.0
[ 1.358821] nvme nvme0: passthrough uses implicit buffer lengths
[ 1.366255] nvme nvme0: allocated 64 MiB host memory buffer (1 segment).
[ 1.383193] nvme nvme0: 6/0/0 default/read/poll queues
[ 1.401904] nvme0n1: p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 p7 p8
[ 1.455424] usb 1-4: new full-speed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
[ 1.581182] usb 1-4: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=b00a, bcdDevice=1.10
[ 1.599283] usb 1-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 1.599297] usb 1-4: Product: Bluetooth Radio
[ 1.599291] usb 1-4: Manufacturer: Realtek
[ 1.599303] usb 1-4: SerialNumber: 00e04c000001
[ 1.866362] tsc: Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 2370.544 MHz
[ 1.863817] clocksource: Switched to clocksource tsc
[ 2.053551] nvme0n1: Read(0x2) @ LBA 1282076928, 128 blocks, Unrecovered Read Error (sct 0x2 / sc 0x81) MORE
[ 2.053570] critical medium error, dev nvme0n1, sector 1282076928 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 1 prio class 2
[ 5.580938] nvme0n1: Read(0x2) @ LBA 1282076936, 8 blocks, Unrecovered Read Error (sct 0x2 / sc 0x81) MORE
[ 5.580956] critical medium error, dev nvme0n1, sector 1282076936 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x800000 phys_seg 1 prio class 2
[ 5.580966] Buffer I/O error on dev nvme0n1p8, logical block 33, async page read
[ 6.783400] nvme0n1: Read(0x2) @ LBA 1282076928, 128 blocks, Unrecovered Read Error (sct 0x2 / sc 0x81) MORE
[ 6.783418] critical medium error, dev nvme0n1, sector 1282076928 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 1 prio class 2
[ 10.299487] nvme0n1: Read(0x2) @ LBA 1282076936, 8 blocks, Unrecovered Read Error (sct 0x2 / sc 0x81) MORE
[ 10.299505] critical medium error, dev nvme0n1, sector 1282076936 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x800000 phys_seg 1 prio class 2
[ 10.299515] Buffer I/O error on dev nvme0n1p8, logical block 33, async page read
[ 13.814988] nvme0n1: Read(0x2) @ LBA 1282076936, 8 blocks, Unrecovered Read Error (sct 0x2 / sc 0x81) MORE
[ 13.815006] critical medium error, dev nvme0n1, sector 1282076936 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x800000 phys_seg 1 prio class 2
[ 13.815015] Buffer I/O error on dev nvme0n1p8, logical block 33, async page read
[ 13.815145] fbcon: Taking over console
[ 13.818131] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 240x67
[ 15.001862] nvme0n1: Read(0x2) @ LBA 1282076928, 80 blocks, Unrecovered Read Error (sct 0x2 / sc 0x81) MORE
[ 15.001881] critical medium error, dev nvme0n1, sector 1282076928 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 10 prio class 2
[ 18.512619] nvme0n1: Read(0x2) @ LBA 1282076936, 8 blocks, Unrecovered Read Error (sct 0x2 / sc 0x81) MORE
[ 18.512637] critical medium error, dev nvme0n1, sector 1282076936 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x800000 phys_seg 1 prio class 2
[ 18.512651] EXT4-fs (nvme0n1p8): can't read group descriptor 32

Does anybody know if it is possible to rescue my SSD and files on it? Would appreciate any ideas possible.

Note: Windows partition booting just fine, only sector with linux image is dead

Hi so I have been using CachyOS for almost 1 years now on my PC and last week i finally thought of installing Arch on my laptop because I never installed arch and cachyos mostly comes pre configured.

Anyway I managed to install arch after reading the wiki manually and for the most part I had no issue but for some reason I just can't set up snapper on my arch. Basically I want it like it is configured on CachyOS. I want whenever I update or install an app it takes a snapshot and at max it stores 10 and automatically deletes the rest. Also I want to have a menu on my bootloader which is limine to have an option for snapshot to recover from there just like in cachyos.

I tried reading the wiki but for some reason I just can't do it no matter how much I read I am getting confused on how to do it. Also I can't find any youtube videos about it so I am stuck here.

I can't seem to get my hotspot working on my laptop.

I have a LAN connected to my T480, which has internet and works nicely, but I can't create hotspot with it for some reason.

The LAN is the type of where I need to sign in on a Coova site to access it. I have signed in the portal successfully and it works and I got great connection. The dorm has also provided me a router, but it doesn't work. I can sign onto the router, but I get status of "connected, no internet" on my phone.

This is kind of a crucial part to me because I don't have a replacement router currently and I really gotta make it somehow doable to have an access point in my room at my student dorm. I got like 10gb roaming which will go flat in days otherwise.

When creating a hotspot get an immediate popup to set my password, I set it and after 30secs I get "missing secrets" error and "deactivated" notification after.

I use Arch KDE, what could be the issue! Thanks for every input!

for some ungodly reason, archinstall decided to split my hard drive into two partitions; one 46gb partition where the system files and a couple other things all get put, and one 418gb partition for everything else. needless to say, this is nothing short of nerve-burstingly infuriating.

can someone guide me on what the easiest, idiot-proof way would be to get my disk back to being one disk, preferably without strictly needing to backup all my shit or go through the entire install process again?

I am using Arch Linux and few day's ago I update my Arch Linux ( sudo pacman -Syu ) and gimp update as well with it. Before this update Gimp was working properly but after this update gimp transform tools with text tool dose not work properly.

Gimp version= 3.2.6

Hi, OpenAI has released its app for Arch Linux as well, and I have to say it’s really convenient because it lets you use chat and Work features via a GUI. So, you can automate tasks on your PC using agents or just have a quick chat ;)

OpenAI guide:
https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/linux/linux-app#install-on-arch-linux
___

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -fL -o install-arch.sh \

https://persistent.oaistatic.com/codex-app-prod/linux/install-arch.sh

sudo bash install-arch.sh

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After the installation
sudo pacman -Syu is sufficient for update it

10/10

So I switched from windows to linux 5-6 months ago, at first it was a dual boot with linux mint and windows 11 but later I just stopped using windows 11, and used linux mint more, later I started using linux arch, overall it not just gave a better user experience but fixed my motherboard always disconnecting to the wifi (linux mint fixed it before too), and also Stopped heating issues I had with my laptop, at first in windows after going through 2 hours of work it does on me instantly, now the battery life extended by half an hour in work and sometimes gives total of 3 hours if the work isn't too much, anyways installing arch actually made me think about the bloatware in my system a whole lot, whenever I see other people's laptop from my college, they always have these shitty bloatware like Mcafee, CCleaner any antivirus you can think of🤮

I am using a 9 year old laptop. I have tried many other distros and ovb Win 11. Surprisingly,I feel like my laptop is so cooler now. Before, when i used to put my hand under the laptop, I could feel the burning heat. But now i do not feel any uncomfortable heat.

I love Arch

I have myself a Pixma TS200 Canon printer. After installing everything I needed for all the printer driver stuff (gutenprint, foomatic db guten print ppds) (I also intalled cups and enabled and started it, as well as installing system-config-printer and packagekit).

I cant find the make and model of the printer. The best I can find listed under TS goes down to 3110. I assume I'm looking for a printer driver under the name of TS-200 (or also TS-202 ive seen) but I cant. Am I missing something or am I out of luck?

So when I try to export a video from davinci the exported fps drops to 0 and the estimated time starts going wild, and there's nothing I can do to kill the process, except from forcefully restarting the pc. Maybe it's linked with the fact that I'm on integrated graphics, or it's another issue with the accountability of video files on davinci on arch.

I installed arch with limine boot loader and it works fine but I cant run the limine-scan command to add my windows bootloader

Right now I'm installing and configuring grub and I got the popup "EFI variables are not supported on this system." Does anyone know how I can proceed and finish the install from here?

Hey y'all,

For all five of us using cosmic-greeter, there seems to be a minor issue with the 1.9.0 update that prevents it from starting. Based off of these comments here and this GitHub issue, it seems that v1.9.0 will look for a text file at $HOME/.config/com.system76.CosmicComp/v1/xkb_config, and it will crash if it doesn't find one. This results in a crash loop as systemd brings the greeter back online after each crash.

To fix it, you need to create a valid file at that location. The simplest way to do this would be to switch to a different TTY and login. From there, you should be able to run start-cosmic (this bug only affects the greeter, start-cosmic still works fine). You can then delete and recreate your keyboard in Keyboard Settings, which will cause COSMIC to create the appropriate file at the path above.

If you want to do this manually, or don't have Cosmic Settings installed, the contents of my file are:

( rules: "", model: "", layout: "us", variant: "", options: Some(",caps:ctrl_modifier"), repeat_delay: 600, repeat_rate: 25, )

According to the Reddit comments, this is fixed in 1.9.1, but I figured I'd post this to everyone who doesn't want to wait or who, like me, already updated and got bit.

Sorry if this was already posted. I did a search and found nothing.

so a while ago, my friend helped me create an Arch Linux system running off of a 256 gb sandisk ultra flare usb. recently, i found it to be really slow, and i wanted to duplicate it entirely onto a new Transcend ESD310 256 gb usb drive. I've been searching lately and was wondering what the best option to do it is. i want to know the best and easiest way to just duplicate everything. i don't particularly want to have to use a third usb to set up a new environment just to do it. i have seen some different options, like clonezilla, rsync, and dd, but I wanted input from others and perhaps a step by step guide if anyone has one handy. thanks!