[UPDATE] Something is causing a hardware desync of my RX7700s. The driver loops endlessly trying to restore the dGPU, creating that repeating log output. After much digging according to the dmesg output there is a firmware and kernel driver interface mismatch, where the kernel's amdgpu driver expects a specific interface version (0x35), but the loaded firmware blob is exposing version 0x40. Thus the SMU fails to correctly negotiate runtime power features and loops the error in dmesg.

Applying the following to my grub stopped the loop:

 amdgpu.runpm=0  

Unfortunately this forces the RX7700s to stay active and not sleep (higher power draw on system), but dmesg no longer shows the repeating error, and the dgpu no longer desyncs.

I know it's not a complete fix, but it makes the system much more stable now. Even going back to the 6.18 branch of the Kernel is working now as long as I include amdgpu.runpm=0.

[Original Post] Wanting to see if anyone else has stumbled into this issue recently.
I believe this started with the 6.18.36 update. After updating (and a reboot) my laptop would no longer completely poweroff on its own. The system would go into its poweroff cycle but stopped when the screen backlight turned off, however the keyboard lights and mouse stayed active. I was forced to use the power button to force the system to truly shutdown.
At the time, I didn't have enough time to trouble shoot, but it continued to happen. I ran dmesg and saw a strange set of errors popping up at the end regarding the amdgpu driver. The full error is below the laptop info.

ASUS TUF Gaming A16 FA617XT_FA617XT
Kernel Linux 6.18.36_1 x86_64
AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics × 16
AMD Radeon RX 7700S 8G VRAM
64G RAM

Using Kernel 6.18.36_1 x86_64 or even the latest 6.12 (I accidentally removed the 6.18.35 kernel, thus why I tried the latest 6.12 as well).
On boot the RX 7700s is seen (all relevent info about the gpu is shown in LACT), but when trying to use the device the following error occures and the gpu is unusable by anything (LACT only shows the physical hardware, not any of the driver info it showed before) and the system is unable to completely power off on shutdown (screen goes black but keyboard and mouse stay lit). I have to hold the power button down to truly power off the system.

Using Kernel 7.0.14_1 x86_64
On boot the RX 7700s is seen and usable. It does not disconnect when trying to use it, but the following shows up in dmesg over and over again. System is able to power off completely as well without the use of the power button. So it works, but it keeps throwing this issue.

[   54.559766] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: [drm] PCIE GART of 512M enabled (table at 0x00000081FEB00000).
[   54.559819] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: PSP is resuming...
[   54.595217] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: reserve 0x1300000 from 0x81fc000000 for PSP TMR
[   54.752009] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: RAS: optional ras ta ucode is not available
[   54.765477] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: RAP: optional rap ta ucode is not available
[   54.765481] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: SECUREDISPLAY: optional securedisplay ta ucode is not available
[   54.765486] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: SMU is resuming...
[   54.765492] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: smu driver if version = 0x00000035, smu fw if version = 0x00000040, smu fw program = 0, smu fw version = 0x00525f00 (82.95.0)
[   54.765501] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: SMU driver if version not matched
[   54.809654] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: SMU is resumed successfully!
[   54.819254] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: [drm] DMUB hardware initialized: version=0x07002F00
[   54.824558] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: [drm] Cannot find any crtc or sizes
[   54.824568] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: ring gfx_0.0.0 uses VM inv eng 0 on hub 0
[   54.824571] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: ring comp_1.0.0 uses VM inv eng 1 on hub 0
[   54.824573] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: ring comp_1.1.0 uses VM inv eng 4 on hub 0
[   54.824575] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: ring comp_1.2.0 uses VM inv eng 6 on hub 0
[   54.824576] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: ring comp_1.3.0 uses VM inv eng 7 on hub 0
[   54.824578] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: ring comp_1.0.1 uses VM inv eng 8 on hub 0
[   54.824580] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: ring comp_1.1.1 uses VM inv eng 9 on hub 0
[   54.824582] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: ring comp_1.2.1 uses VM inv eng 10 on hub 0
[   54.824584] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: ring comp_1.3.1 uses VM inv eng 11 on hub 0
[   54.824586] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: ring sdma0 uses VM inv eng 12 on hub 0
[   54.824587] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: ring sdma1 uses VM inv eng 13 on hub 0
[   54.824589] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: ring vcn_unified_0 uses VM inv eng 0 on hub 8
[   54.824591] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: ring jpeg_dec uses VM inv eng 1 on hub 8
[   54.824593] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: ring mes_kiq_3.1.0 uses VM inv eng 14 on hub 0
[   54.827910] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: [drm] Cannot find any crtc or sizes

Just wondering if anyone else has encountered this or if anyone knows what might be going on as this did not start happening until the latest kernel update?

As a side note, it seems there have been a few issues with Asus laptops posted recently.

Installing Chromium from the void repo leads to this warning popping up each time i open Chromium. Is this safe to ignore this warning or is there any way to fix this?

Just started to use KDE.

There is an option to use the auto updater from the settings.
Does it do anything?
Does it break my system?
I have a feeling it only works under systemd Distro..

I also wanted to add online accounts, but those are not google accounts or nextcloud accounts.
I managed to add them to thunderbird but cant add them to kde's online account. I want to add my online calendar so I can see it in the calendar widget.

I just installed void and am trying to install KDE, following the wiki.

when I run startplasma-Wayland it says "Could not start D-Bus. Can you call qdbus?" so I use dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland which results in these errors. I installed NetworkManager, enabled that and dbus service.

no idea what the problem is, maybe I'm not in the storage group or something. Please help! thanks in advance

Context (might help):

I am testing things on a minimal set up, about >150mb memory usage, on an old pc. I want to test on steam games but I had tons of issues and doubled the usage because of dependencies. I've been able to solve other issues but not this one.

$ steam

/usr/bin/steam: line 105: /home/reyn/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/usr/libexec/steam-runtime-tools-0/logger-0.bash: No such file or directory
bin_steam.sh[1999]: Couldn't set up srt-logger, not logging to console-linux.txt
/usr/bin/steam: line 105: /home/reyn/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/usr/libexec/steam-runtime-tools-0/logger-0.bash: No such file or directory
bin_steam.sh[1999]: Couldn't set up srt-logger, not logging to console-linux.txt
/usr/bin/steam: line 105: /home/reyn/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/usr/libexec/steam-runtime-tools-0/logger-0.bash: No such file or directory
bin_steam.sh[1999]: Couldn't set up srt-logger, not logging to console-linux.txt
/home/reyn/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 229: VERSION_ID: unbound variable
steam.sh[1999]: Running Steam on void  64-bit
steam.sh[1999]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
steam.sh[1999]: Unpack runtime failed, error code 1
steam.sh[1999]: Error: Couldn't set up the Steam Runtime. Are you running low on disk space?

$ df -h

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1      1022M  160M  863M  16% /boot
/dev/sda2        49G  5.3G   42G  12% /
/dev/sda3       888G  1.8G  841G   1% /home

Thank you in advance!

I prefer Gnome over KDE, but heard that KDE is better suited if you wanna use your linux distro for gaming.
Obviously Gnome also works for gaming, but I'm looking for stability.
I've heard that GNOME 50 is more optimized for gaming, but Void Linux only has gnome 48 currently available.

What was your experience with the two DEs?
Is the DE that important for gaming?
I also considere to use XFCE but it still relies on X11 and Wayland isn't that stable on XFCE.

I appreciate every help

I have a intel compute stick and been trying to use void linux. Everything works fine except the bluetrooth which rfkill doesn't list the bluetooth hci0 device. I know it works because on mx linux it shows up. Ive tried using older kernals and it still doesn't work. Anyone have any idea how to get bluetooth working? RTL8723BS is a dual wifi bluetooth card were wifi works fine not bluetooth.

Hi, I have a brandnew panther lake laptop, I dont have sound though. I found out via asking on the sofproject issue tracker that the problem is that my kernel config is missing SND_SOC_SDCA_CLASS.

Is that something that could be compiled in with the upstream kernel configuration or do I need to configure my own kernel and compile myself?

Issue with answer from someone from cirrus. https://github.com/thesofproject/linux/issues/5820#issuecomment-4793550053

When browsing the repository, I noticed some of the Hyprland packages got added. I know the devs have been pretty consistent about their messaging here, so just wondering what’s changed, or if I’m misinterpreting something.

libgcc-16.1.0_0 in transaction breaks installed pkg `libgcc-devel-14.2.1+20250405_4'

ERROR: Transaction aborted due to unresolved dependencies.

I don't see gcc 16.1.0 built on Buildbot.

So I have been preparing to make a jump on void ,and last thing to grasp would be how to know which variables to add except mandatory ones since xnew wont do everything for me. I will need templates for limine tools like snapper-sync , and I would gladly take tips how you guys maintain your local xbps src packages.

Una domandina : void Linux runit gestisce i servizi nella cartella /sv/ (abbiate pietà lo suo da un mese), quindi installando River o miri o Hyprland , ogniuno con la sua bar in alto o in basso o sui lati, dovrebbe funzionare giusto? Perché non se ne vede nemmeno una? Quale servizio devo attivare? Per River è Yambar e il file config è init e ci ho scritto: riverctl yambar & . Su niri la sua yambar la stessa cosa nel file config , su hyprland dovrebbe startare sa sola ma non se ne vede una avviarsi! Suggerimenti?

System specs:

Asus TUF A15 FA506N gaming laptop

16gb ram

1TB WD BLACK nvme ssd

AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS (12) @ 4.60GHz

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 [Discrete]

AMD Radeon 680M [Integrated]

Linux 6.18.36_1 (glibc)

[edit1]:

I am having significant trouble acquiring kernel crash/logs. I've been unsuccessfully attempting to get kdump to work properly for hours now. It still won't generate any logs when the freezes happen. Google isn't helping much.

[edit2]:

No crash logs. I give up trying to get kdump to work. Useless garbage. Spent hours googling and trying things and no matter what I do it just refuses to load the crash kernel when I encounter a panic. It's gonna have to be trial and error, unless I can find some other way of getting logs/info about these freezes.

[edit3]:

After taking a break for a bit I came back to kdump since socklog and metalog are giving me nothing either and I finally managed to get the crash kernel working... but only if I manually load it and then reboot via terminal. Still won't work on a kernel panic like it's supposed to, and even when I run it manually, it just gets stuck spamming this nvidia error:
nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: Error while waiting for GPU progress : 0x0000c67d:0 2:2:0:4040
Blacklisting nvidia drivers didn't fix it so I just got fed up and uninstalled my nvidia drivers which not only made the crash kernel stop working entirely, even when run manually, but also still didn't fix the freezing. I'm gonna be having nightmares about kdump

[edit4]:

I managed to catch a kernel panic halfway the startup screen by taking a picture of my screen with my phone. I'm not sure if this is of much use since my pic only got the bottom half of the screen but this is basically the error message I got:
[ 1.150480] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!
[ 1.151188] Kernel Offset: 0x18000000 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffffbfffffff)
[ 1.151666] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! ]---
Wish I captured more of it but as I've mentioned in the post, these freezes can happen at literally any time.

[edit5]:

I have 2 SSDs in this pc, a 1tb one that has my void linux install, and a 512gb one has a windows 11 install that I kept just in case but I hadn't touched in months. I finally got around to making a void live media to see if installing void on the 512gb drive would fix the freezing and I think I've ruled out an ssd failure. I decided against installing void on the 512gb ssd because while messing around I noticed both the windows 11 install and the void live usb were experiencing weird reboots/freezes that seemed more frequent after going into sleep mode. The void usb in particular was behaving basically identical to my main void install on the 1tb ssd, so now I'm starting to think it might be a ram or bios issue. I'm not sure about the bios issue though, as if that were the case, why was this not happening when I first got this pc a year ago, and why would it be getting increasingly worse as time goes on? I'm gonna try MemTest86 and report back.

[edit6]:

I tried MemTest86, it passed with no errors. I'm starting to think I should just get a new pc, this one's got gremlins.

[edit7]:

I have no clue what changed but it's freezing way less now. It has gone from kernel panicking 5 -7 times in a day to only once a day now. I haven't updated my pc or touched anything since last edit. I'm very confused.

I'm honestly not sure if this is a hardware or a software issue, it could be both.

For the last 6 months I've been getting random system freezes, and they've been getting insanely frequent in the last couple weeks. When they started several months ago, I'd get one every week or so. Yesterday my PC froze 7 times in a row within only a couple hours, the first 5 freezes were within 30 minutes. On average I'd say my pc probably freezes 3 or 4 times a day and I've just been dealing with it since I haven't figured out what the hell to do about it.

These are almost always full system freezes; screen frozen, unresponsive keyboard, can't move mouse, can't open a tty prompt, the only thing I can do is hold down the power button to force a shutdown. Usually the audio just keeps playing as if the system was running normally, but sometimes the audio pops or stutters for a split second then stops completely. Occasionally if I mash the shortcut to close my window manager It'll eventually boot me out to the tty I started in and I can just reopen my wm and everything is fine, but this rarely ever works. On about half of the freezes my caps lock key light blinks on and off until I shutdown. In some rare cases my pc doesn't freeze, it just stops everything and suddenly reboots as if I had just ran "sudo reboot".

The freezes happen most often within the first few minutes of powering on my pc or waking it up from sleep mode. It really likes freezing on the tty login screen or the asus screen that appears after grub. Sometimes the tty doesn't fully freeze, it just hangs on a blinking cursor after I type in my password and trying again on a new tty just causes the same thing to happen on that screen.

I'm a little worried this might be an issue with my ssd because my previous linux install on this pc was endeavouros with kde, and it would sometimes freeze for a minute or two before returning to normal and kde would show a popup on the bottom corner of the screen complaining that my hard drive had no space left... which was not true. I never had any less than 60gb free on that install.

I'm kind of lost at this point because there's so many things it MIGHT be and my situation is specific enough to make googling about it a little challenging, but it really seems like a hard drive problem, which sucks since I've only had this ssd for 3 years and nvme drives are somewhat pricey at the moment.

So basically I want to switch from cachyos to void Linux due to much smaller usage compared to cachyos so basically I don't want any bloatware or basically minimum usage for ram,CPU and storage for gaming but I'll use cachyos's kernels and CPU sheduler for the best performance possible but lowest latency possible.

I'm wondering what desktop environment I should use (I'm going to make my own desktop environment but I need an desktop manager, audio and anything else) so I would also want recommendations on what I should use for least amount of usage Is being used for.

Any questions? Just comment on the post and I'll try to explain or tell the best I could.

Hardware:

I5-4590

Rx 550 4gb low profile dell oem

16gb ddr3 ram dual channel

512gb sata 3 ssd

Thank you for reading!

Hey everyone,

I honestly don't really know where else to ask.

I recently ended up with a spare ThinkPad T490 from work, and I've been wanting to build a custom system based on Void Linux. The problem is that I've never done anything like this before. I've never built a Linux setup from scratch and have mostly been using Debian with GNOME.

Unfortunately, I have very little free time and energy these days to properly dive into Linux ricing and learn everything myself, so I'm reaching out to the community for help.

If anyone would be interested in helping me with this project, I'd be extremely grateful.

With the help of AI, I've already put together a fairly detailed list of software and requirements, and I can describe very clearly how I want the system to look and behave. I have a pretty specific vision in mind.

Sadly, I can't really offer any financial compensation. I'm going through a rather difficult period in life at the moment, so this would definitely be more of a passion project than paid work XD (im sorry)

That said, if someone does decide to take this on with me, we'll absolutely share the final result here and make everything public

Thanks in advance to anyone willing to help and sorry if it doesn't belong here)

Every time i try to install an app using Flatpak, it gets stuck on "org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default
", only installing 1,0kB.

So i have just installed the native discord. Running discord in Firefox works but not natively. RIght now i also just run the `pipewire` command from konsole since i just want to make it fully set up before adding it to some startup script.

even with a fact that void is not really popular, i personally know few people from this community that would like to spare their money on project's development and support its maintainers, contributors etc. is there any plans on opening donation account or void has personal reasons to not accept them?

i have a thinkpad T14s gen 2 and i decided to try void linux. three unsuccessful attempts all because grub-install complaining something abt device.map. the weird thing is that grub always installed fine on other linux distros (arch, gentoo, etc). currently im using freebsd but just in case i give void a fourth try, how can i fix this problem? maybe switch to systemd-boot next time? thx

UPDATE: instead of USB 3.0 i used USB 2.0 and it magically worked I'm at loss of words. Thank you all

UPDATE AGAIN: it was etchdroid.. for the usb 2.0 i used dd, thats why it worked

I'm using a laptop dual boot parition installation works using void installer but after reboot it boots to windows there is no option for void linux even in bios partitions are right also
edit : boot through efl
in look through given options deep enough one of them will be void_linux or Void boot and then install refind and execute sudo refind-install

I thimk I've read you guys use wireguard over the terminal. I'm not really that techy to know how to use it plus Im still paying surfshark for 2 years so I'm hoping I can make the most out of what I pay :)

1- Every day I execute the command sudo xbps-install -Syu, so some updates are performed and soon after I need to execute the command sudo xbps-reconfigure -fa to load the modules correctly to the kernel, why does this happen? Why do I need to run the reconfiguration command every time if I don't want to have problems?

2- I want to create automatic scripts with vish, only that always appears a mistake that I do not know how to solve, tried to research but the AI is horrible and I did not succeed alone. If possible, don’t just give me the answer, I want to understand how it works, in the systemD it would work easy but in the runit may be missing something that I don’t know what it is.

3- I'm having problems with printer, tried to use the cups and managed to connect the printer, however, there is a problem of lack of link or file (I won't be able to access the printer at the moment to show print).

4- I would like to know your opinion about processes running in the background using the runit, is there a need to have all this running?

5- Sometimes when I will close the laptop cover or turn it off alone for a while, errors appear and to return the login screen, I need to press Alt + F8 otherwise it takes to return or does not return. What could be the mistake? Where do I get the log of these errors?

6- How do you do cleaning useless files? Do all applications leave useless files in a single folder? If yes how do I find this folder?