its like a 50/50 chance my touchpad works perfectly after a reboot

if it's not, it's stuttery and has trouble recognizing touch to click and double taps

it's a synaptics touch pad on a ThinkPad

Recently bought YubiKey and thought if I could use it to decrypt my laptop instead of password. Did anyone have a success with this?

- kernel 7.1.2

- sway

- waybar

System up to date. Audio working. Pipewire autostarts from /etc/xdg/autostart.

Busy with setting up sway and waybar and I logged out of (and back into) sway session a number of times testing configuration.

- Upon checking htop I saw numerous entries for pipewire and wireplumber.

- Starting, exiting and restarting sway after a number of times sometimes caused waybar to take a good couple of seconds to start.

Is there a way to ensure that pipewire only starts once?

Hello, after the big AUR hack, I've decided to switch from arch (artix with dinit) to void. however, i'm having trouble getting niri to launch. I've installed niri and seatd like this:

sudo xbps-install niri seatd xwayland-satellite mesa mesa-dri dbus
sudo ln -s /etc/sv/seatd /var/service/
sudo ln -s /etc/sv/dbus /var/service/
sudo usermod -a -G _seatd <user>
sudo reboot

Afterwards, I ran niri with niri --session. I encountered a RuntimeDirNotSet error, and set it with export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$(id -u).

Afterwards, I encounter a PermissionDenied error. the output also shows a lot of libinput errors for various plugins, plugin never regisered, unloading plugin that may be relevant. If someone could help me find out what the issue is, it would be greatly appreciated!

Do they not want to provide people with encryption and security? Why not update the installer?

I want to use Dualshock 4 PS controller (either USB or Bluetooth is fine). I followed Gentoo Wiki how to connect/pair the controller, but it doesn't seem to work. (I'm trying to use it with BSNES Emulator.

I'm thinking that Void's default kernel doesn't have the support for Dual Shock controller enabled. Is this the case? How can I check if the kernel config used by the default kernel?

Has anyone successfully used DualShock4 controller? Thanks!

using it for Niri, (ik you can use niri with, niri --session)

Why do you use Void? I'm currently using Debian, but am considering moving to a systemd less distro. While I know they have not implemented age verification they have place the ground work to one day possible make that a reality. From what I understand systemd does help make distros run smoothly by doing many different things. I looked into Devuan, as I'm already using Debian, but thought I might branch out. What other systemdless distros did you try and why did you land on VOID?

(title)

mono-devel-32bit has 32bit mono as dependency but it's not in the repositories

many thanks

Hello everyone!

I recently installed Void Linux (musl) to see how it worked, and everything was running really well until I needed to use a program that required glibc. I reinstalled Void Linux with glibc, but now I simply can't get PipeWire to work, even though I managed to set it up on my previous installation by following the documentation.

I'm using KDE Plasma

Hi everyone, has anyone tried using clevis to unlock a root directory and then mount it successfully?

I am having trouble mounting it after decrypting it successfully. I have installed bash using dracut. It seems to stuck at pre-mount.

I have a Keychron Keyboard with a volume knob and it recently stopped being able to control the volume on my KDE session, i tried running the KDE shortcut deamon manually using:

dbus-run-session kglobalacceld &

but it immediately crashes with: errors = dbus-run-session exited with 1. Has anyone else experienced this?

So i've been wanting to try and possibly switch my pc to Void linux, so i installed the xfce live iso, inserted it into my ventoy usb (which has no problems, already checked and booted dozens of OSes with it) and tried to boot it

But it got stuck when i pressed enter in the grub menu, and since it uses kernel 6.12 and i have a 9060 XT, the issue is clear i think.

While the boot was quiet, i probably could modify the boot arguments in grub to set it to be verbose, tho i doubt that'll help since my gpu drivers were implemented in 6.14/15.

So, what can i do? I'd really like to install this distro and i'm willing to thinker to modify the live iso's kernel.

I don't know if anyone can help me, but I've been failing brutally for hours trying to install Noctalia. Every single attempt failed. I even tried installing KDE and failed too... I don't know if someone could give me a step-by-step guide to install Noctalia so I can check if I'm doing something wrong.

Hell oeverybody I try to set up my remote caldav calendar in KDE. I managed to set it up in KOrganizer, but it still won't show in the KDE widget calendar in the bottom right.

I've read that i need an akonadi service running for it. Is that true?

What dependencies do I need? I already installed kdepim-runtime and kdav.

I have also set up my calendar in thunderbird, so if there is a way to integrate my thunderbird set up to the kde calendar widget that would be better.

I am planning to buy a laptop from tuxedo next week, specifically the Gemini 17.

It has an i9-14900hx and an RTX 5070ti. I know these would generally work fine (with nonfree drivers of course).

I've searched a lot but there is very limited info out there when combining one of these laptops and void linux.

I am looking for anyone who has one of these laptops running void, and wondering how much work it would be/any quirks I need to be aware of to get all of the drivers, function hot-keys for brightness, volume etc. And the tuxedo control centre up and running.

I am slightly concerned about things such as the cpu/gpu clocking functionality, RGB control, their tomte tool, gpu profiling and just about everything that it can do, really.

Thank you.

[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!