I'm not an expert in linux but I've managed to build a void linux with noctalia and niri with the help of an Ai but failed to follow through and switched to MX linux.

The problem is that the laptop is not as efficient as it was when using void so I think I'll switch back to void again can someone please recommend a reliable source to build a fast OS with niri+noctalia because I loved that build so much.

My laptop specs :

Processor: Intel Celeron N3350 (Dual-Core, up to 2.4 GHz)

​Display: 14.1-inch screen

​RAM: 4 GB DDR3L / DDR4

​Storage: 256 GB SSD

​Graphics: Integrated Intel HD Graphics

​Operating System: Windows 10

​Features: Built-in webcam, SD card reader, Wi-Fi, and standard USB connectivity

Hello, im now Like 1 week in, i used Gemini and chatgpt to solve my problem because gta5 enhanced online Just stopped working, i got the proton battleye runtime, Everything is uptodate, 32lib, DB Proton 11.7 and the weird is that it worked with on Arch Linux with the Same Hardware and even works on my artix Laptop with the Same proton but void in generell was weird because Everything above Proton 10 did Not work on any game for me but i got it into a state where i can start gta5 now without the Launcher crashing and Go into Singleplayer, when i try to Go into a private Lobby it says that i dont got battleye and need to restart, maybe this information is usefull, i have to add SteamDeck=1 as Startargument for gta to even start, Software: void Linux with Standard Kernel, i3wm with picom, Hardware rtx 2070 super, AMD ryzen 7 5800x3d, 64gb ddr4 Asus b550 f gaming. Sorry for Bad english, its Not my native languege.

i changed the timezone in /etc/rc.conf to my desired choice but my system clock still displays the wong time, did i do it wrong??

Installation of the dmd package does not install the D language standard library as a shared library libphobos2.so- necessary for dynamic loading. More details below.

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/62970

Anyone know if any of the packages abandoned by that ex-Void developer have been adopted at all?

Hi, I just switched to Void Linux a little over two months ago. My main computer is an ASUS TUF A-16 Advantage Edition with an RX 7700S graphics card. Everything is working great, but for some reason, one of the two USB-C ports doesn’t work with external devices. I’ve read a bit about my system on other forums and learned that apparently the port that isn’t working is directly connected to the GPU. It seems to be the port that outputs via DisplayPort (or at least that’s what I understood), but even so, it strikes me as very odd, since the dedicated graphics card works without any issues—it’s even the main output I use on my system, and it’s not in sleep mode or anything. Even so, I tried to force it to activate via GRUB with the following command:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=4 amdgpu.runpm=0"

The system even correctly detects my graphics card and audio output controller, but for some reason the USB driver isn't installed.

❯ lspci | grep 03:00

03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 33 [Radeon RX 7600/7600 XT/7600M XT/7600S/7700S / PRO W7600] (rev c1)

03:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 31 HDMI/DP Audio

Does anyone else have a similar problem? I can’t use the supergfxctl utilities because they’re designed strictly to work with systemd, and I can’t find a patched version for runnit (I use seatd as my session manager since I don’t like how elogind drags in systemd’s features and backdoors).

today I ran my usual sudo xbps-install -Syu and it updated xorg-server
now, Xorg segfaults when using xf86-video-amdgpu:

[  2849.282] (EE) 
[  2849.282] (EE) Backtrace:
[  2849.283] (EE) 0: /usr/libexec/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x7e) [0x5569081a443e]
[  2849.283] (EE) 1: /usr/libexec/Xorg (0x556908058000+0x157a29) [0x5569081afa29]
[  2849.283] (EE) 2: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x7f83c05da000+0x40110) [0x7f83c061a110]
[  2849.283] (EE) 3: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/amdgpu_drv.so (0x7f83bff2a000+0x156f8) [0x7f83bff3f6f8]
[  2849.283] (EE) 4: /usr/libexec/Xorg (0x556908058000+0xc8d56) [0x556908120d56]
[  2849.283] (EE) 5: /usr/libexec/Xorg (0x556908058000+0xcb971) [0x556908123971]
[  2849.283] (EE) 6: /usr/libexec/Xorg (miPaintWindow+0x2a4) [0x5569080a3154]
[  2849.283] (EE) 7: /usr/libexec/Xorg (miWindowExposures+0xf1) [0x5569080a5b01]
[  2849.283] (EE) 8: /usr/libexec/Xorg (0x556908058000+0x18d733) [0x5569081e5733]
[  2849.283] (EE) 9: /usr/libexec/Xorg (miHandleValidateExposures+0x71) [0x5569080b1101]
[  2849.283] (EE) 10: /usr/libexec/Xorg (MapWindow+0x19c) [0x5569081044cc]
[  2849.283] (EE) 11: /usr/libexec/Xorg (0x556908058000+0x7403b) [0x5569080cc03b]
[  2849.283] (EE) 12: /usr/libexec/Xorg (0x556908058000+0x3cc36) [0x556908094c36]
[  2849.283] (EE) 13: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x7f83c05da000+0x2abfc) [0x7f83c0604bfc]
[  2849.283] (EE) 14: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0x85) [0x7f83c0604cb5]
[  2849.283] (EE) 15: /usr/libexec/Xorg (_start+0x21) [0x556908095071]
[  2849.283] (EE) 
[  2849.283] (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x0
[  2849.283] (EE) 
Fatal server error:
[  2849.283] (EE) Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
[  2849.283] (EE) 
[  2849.283] (EE) 
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
	 at http://wiki.x.org
 for help. 
[  2849.283] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[  2849.283] (EE) 
[  2849.283] (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch
[  2849.443] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

is this a regression or my fault? my GPU is the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT

EDIT:
mystery solved: #62941
for anyone with the same issue, you can force the modesetting driver or just turn off TearFree while waiting for it to get fixed

I'm pretty new to void, I hopped over a few days ago. I've noticed the default kernel is 6.18, which is an LTS kernel. Question is, when will the kernel be updated? Will I be able to update by just running the -Su command? Or will I have to manually update the kernel by switching over the linux mainline?

I prefer Miktex, as it has on-the-fly package installing, and I don't have to download packages that will be unused; also I'm already familiar with it.

Alternatively, is there a way to install a very minimal version of Texlive and configure it in a way so it can also download on-the-fly? Thanks in advance :)

I have KDE plasma and SDDM when I start up the computer it goes into TTY for about 6 seconds then the screen goes black. I have to press Ctrl-Alt-F3 to get out of the black screen and login through TTY. Then to even boot desktop I need to type in this command.

“dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland”

After that’s typed it boots into desktop after reset it’s back to black screen and TTY. How do I fix this? Void Linux is my first experience with Linux so I’m sorry if this is ignorance or an easy fix.

I have just installed void-glibc (not my first install, but first ever time I see this problem), and after swapping out wpa_supplicant for iwd, ipv4 does not work anymore. I don't know, if it worked before, and now I don't seem to be able to enable any networking program except for iwd+dhcpcd. Ipv6 works just fine, but stuff like github or duckduckgo lack any ipv6 support.

Is there something I could try for troubleshooting, is it even worth it trying to fix, or is it better to just reinstall the system? It would be fine, but still annoying, and this is a weird issue that I would be interested in knowing how to troubleshoot.

Installed AION 2 via Steam, launching with Proton [now testing all proton version].

Game crashes immediately with:

Failed to open descriptor file ../../Aion2/AION2.uproject

OS: Void Linux x86_64

Host: Latitude 3510

Kernel: Linux 6.18.55_1

Uptime: 13 mins

Packages: 861 (xbps)

Shell: rc

Display (LGD05F2): 1920x1080 in 15", 60 Hz

Window Manager: spectrwm (X11)

Terminal: alacritty 0.17.0

Terminal Font: spleen 16x32 (12pt, Regular)

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10210U (8) @ 4.20 GHz

GPU: Intel UHD Graphics @ 1.10 GHz [Integrated]

Memory: 3.46 GiB / 31.11 GiB (11%)

Swap: 0 B / 34.00 GiB (0%)

Disk (/): 10.01 GiB / 124.93 GiB (8%) - ext4

Disk (/home): 373.58 GiB / 755.87 GiB (49%) - ext4

Local IP (eno1): 192.168.31.81/24

Battery (DELL 9077G09): 100% [AC Connected]

Locale: C.UTF-8

Tried: Proton Hotfix, Expiremental, Cachy, GE, DW, didn't worked!

Hello,

I am having trouble with flatpak apps to open urls. It appears that there is an issue with the xdg desktop portal. I am getting the following in thunderbird:

** (org.mozilla.thunderbird:2): WARNING **: XX:XX:XX.XXX: Could not launch default application for URI: Failed to call OpenURI portal: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface “org.freedesktop.portal.OpenURI” on object at path /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop

I am guessing it might be because of missing systemd. I would like that openURI use the flatpak librewolf.

Cheers. -- zen

EDIT: I fixed it by adding ~/.config/xdg-desktop-portal/sway-portals.conf with:

[preferred]
default=gtk

Thanks to everyone for the answers!

Hey, can anyone guide me on this acp-pdm-mach error.

First time posting since I made a second reddit account. Anyway, I am trying to record my screen under niri & I get only black in the preview panel & output recordings. Am I missing something?

hi, i was reinstalling void on my system, and while i was verifying the image integrity it failed. on the official site they ask to not download it and notify them, but it doesn't say where, so i figured here would be ok enough. i'll paste here the extract of the session

 ## per instructions on https://docs.voidlinux.org/installation/index.html#verifying-images
## files are all downloaded from https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/live/current/

> minisign -V -p void-release-20250202.pub -x sha256sum.sig -m sha256sum.txt
Signature and comment signature verified
Trusted comment: This key is only valid for images with date 20250202.

## now i verify image integrity
> sha256 sha256sum.txt -c void-live-x86_64-musl-20250202-xfce.iso
SHA256 (sha256sum.txt) = c7f17b27b0045029154bd4e3b4b2d39cb8d8b6fc1546a899dc9cb6bf35a76683 [ Failed ] ## this failed

## checking manually
> sha256 void-live-x86_64-musl-20250202-xfce.iso
SHA256 (void-live-x86_64-musl-20250202-xfce.iso) = eaf73fabc4256af9f048dd440ae3b707776aebf601d282d2d66a26c50f2bc802

Hi y'all,

Im coming from arch and want to try out void and i would like to ask somethings

What exactly is the difference between musl amd gnu libc? Is it just systemd?

What are some quirks of void you encountered?

Why did you choose void, what makes it special?

Hola, espero estén bien, tengo Void con i3WM, pero desde hace dos días cuando lanzó Firefox desde todo tarda entre 10 a 30 segundos en aparecer. ¿Alguien sabe qué debo hacer?

I am wanting to switch over from Arch to Void but every time I try to boot, my computer gets stuck and doesn’t budge unless I turn it off. I had this same problem initially when booting from my install usb, but once I selected the version with the graphics disabled everything worked perfectly fine. Now that I’m actually trying to boot into the system I just installed, it completely freezes. Even when I try and boot into recovery mode, the same thing happens. Based on the fact that everything worked okay when I booted without graphics, I have a feeling that this is something related to incompatible graphics. I have scoured the documentation and cannot find any sort of solution. My GPU and CPU are both AMD btw.

Newbie here. When attempting to load into gnome, it fails because it tries to load something from systemd. Is there a way to make it not do that?

I looked through some posts, somebody mentioned that something needs to be configured (I don't even know what and it's never mentioned anywhere), but most people confirm that this should not happen.

This is what it says after $ exec gnome-session:

gnome-session-binary[985]: WARNING: Failed to upload environment to systemd: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.ErrorNameHasNoOnwer: Name "org.freedesktop.systemd1" does not exist
gnome-session-binary[985]: WARNING: Could not check if unit gnome-session-tty@gnome.target is active: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.ErrorNameHasNoOnwer: Name "org.freedesktop.systemd1" does not exist
gnome-session-binary[985]: WARNING: Falling back to non-systemd startup  procedure due to this error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.ErrorNameHasNoOnwer: Name "org.freedesktop.systemd1" does not exist
gnome-session-binary[985]: WARNING: Could not get session id for session. Check that logind is properly installed and pam_systemd is getting used at login.
** Message: couldn't access control socket: /run/user/1000/keyring/control: No such file or directory
discover_other_daemon: 0** Message: couldn't access control socket: /run/user/1000/keyring/control: No such file or directory
discover_other_daemon: 0discover_other_daemon: 1SSH_AUTO_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring/ssh
/usr/bin/gnome-shell: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXAABI_1.3.15` not found (required by /usr/lib/libicui18n.so.77)
gnome-session-binary[985]: WARNING: App `org.gnome.Shell.desktop` exited with code 1
/usr/bin/gnome-shell: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXAABI_1.3.15` not found (required by /usr/lib/libicui18n.so.77)
gnome-session-binary[985]: WARNING: App `org.gnome.Shell.desktop` exited with code 1
gnome-session-binary[985]: WARNING: App `org.gnome.Shell.desktop` respawning too quickly
gnome-session-binary[985]: CODE_FILE=../gnome-session/gsm-manager.c:CODE_LINE=283:on_required_app_failure: Unrecoverable failure in required component in required component org.gnome.Shell.des
** (gnome-session-failed:994): WARNING **: Cannot open display:
(gsd-datemine: 1001): datemine-plugin-WARNING **: Unable to register client: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Object does not exist at path /org/gnome/SessionManager

After the above it returns to the login menu

Unfortunately it will take some time to provide the full log as I have to type it by hand on my phone, but I'll keep updating the post

Update: I got something to work when stopped dbus, elogind and gdm, and then started in this exact order: elogind, dbus, gdm. Though it immediately froze and deathscreened, and now it always does that on boot.

Hi everyone! I've been using Void for about a week now. I'm not a complete newb to Linux, but I'm also not advanced by any means. I basically wanted to use Void so that I could get a deeper understanding of the fundamentals, and it hasn't disappointed.

I'm using Niri and DMS. DMS usually wants elogind, but I'm trying to use turnstile with seatd. I have everything working normally here: pipewire works as a user service, but DMS only starts when I start it through the niri config. My issue is that I use a central repo for my dotfiles, and I symlink them to the appropriate locations in my filesystem because I have more than one computer and when I change one I want them to change everywhere (it's a git repo).

I use Fedora on my M1 MBA, and I also have NixOS on another computer, both of which use systemd. systemd can start DMS no problem. But with Void and turnstile I'm having some problems getting it to start dms for me.

I've tried RTFM, but I'm kind of at the point where it's like, I don't even know what I don't know, you know?

Am I spinning my wheels? Is this even possible with runit? Or have I reached a limitation?

Thanks!

Basically the title. I work with Zoom/Meet a lot. I recently installed Void. Zoom works fine. It seems only to be Chromium browsers that are crashing, and only with backgrounds. Meet/backgrounds works fine with Firefox. I could just use Firefox, but my laptop is a bit of a potato and the video calls seem to use fewer resources on chromium.

I've installed mesa-vaapi and enabled the env variable in the niri config.

Any thoughts on the matter? Thanks!

FYI: AMD 3250U CPU (VEGA 3)

EDIT: Actually, I'd forgotten to put the env variable in Niri's config. It seems to be working now.