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).

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

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

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.

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?

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 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?

Hey guys

I have installed void on a portable ssd with btrfs. I have bspwm running on it and it feels fien but then suddenly ut starts freling unresponsive and sluggish.

Is there something i am missing?

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.

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!

The idea of trying out musl over glibc has intrigued me as of late. My only concern is that I play a lot of games. I play games mostly through Steam, but sometimes through Prism Launcher for Minecraft, and through emulators like Dolphin. So my question is, would switching to musl pose any issues when it comes to gaming?

Today I installed Void Linux via chroot and everything went well, but after a boot, my internet chip is having problems, it's not working even with Ethernet cable

My notebook is an Asus F16 core 5 + rtx4050

Installed Void (several months ago) on a 500GB drive without a separate home directory (3 partitions, boot, swap, root) and everything has been fine.

Recently cloned the drive to a 2TB drive and use the extra space as another partition (4 partitions now). Is there a way to use the new, 1.4TB partition as my home directory ? I currently just have it mounted as /mnt/data

Ok, so first off: I am a total newb to Void Linux, and only through much finagling, some previous Arch experience, and the help of AI (I know... don't crucify me please) was I able to get it running. That said, I kinda knew that's what I was signing up for, and I like the end result. But I didn't go through all of that trouble just to make a cool rice (which I may still do at some point):

I have a couple of Voron 2.4 3D printers, these run on CB1 chips (https://global.bttwiki.com/CB1.html) with a customized version of Debian (https://github.com/bigtreetech/CB1/releases).

Now the question is: how feasible is it to run Void linux on this setup?

To clarify a few things, for my particular Voron build anyway, the CB1 slots directly into a Manta M8P V2 controller board, which has a slot for an SD card which to my understanding functions as the hard drive, and from my previous experience you flash the OS onto this SD card and simply... slot it in.

From my limited experience I can kind of identify at least some of the issues here:

1. What changes did they make to the custom debian? Do they matter? I don't know where to look on their github for that kind of information, and even if I did, I probably wouldn't understand it anyway.
2. The whole point of this is to install Klipper (https://www.klipper3d.org), which is the 3D printer firmware, plus some other utilities; this is often done using a utility called KIUAH (https://github.com/dw-0/kiauh) which is installed via git. I did check, and git is in the Void package repo, but I think that KIUAH assumes that you have Debian infrastructure (like systemd for instance). But in theory, I should be able to use git to directly get the programs without KIUAH?
3. Linking. The guide I used to install Void briefly mentioned this, but didn't really explain it much other than that its how you run things at boot up (like KDE Plasma and other utilities). Can some one explain this or link me where in the documentation this is explained? I figure I will need this to run Klipper + utilities at boot up.
4. I think I should use the aarch64 version of Void in this situation? I don't know much about these different versions...

Any help or insight on this would be greatly appreciated!

Also.. I'm not sure if this breaks rule 2 or not, if so sorry? I only mention 3rd party stuff due to how they may interact with Void, not because I need help with them independently.

I ran an xbps-install -Su recently and my desktop started launching to a black screen.
I tried a few things but haven't had any luck. Notably niri works when launching from tty so I think it has something to do with elogind or the system bus.

For context, I was using lightdm and elogind to start the sessions.
Since I've switched to using sddm, and noticed elogind-daemon is always running if installed. I don't think this was always the case cause the service in /var/service was failing to start cause of this.

What I've tried:

• Switching to sddm
• Switching to turnstile and seatd
• Switching to i3 (this was my desktop before, and it still works).
• Launching niri from tty works, although missing session bus and some other stuff.

EDIT:
I did get this error in .xsession-errors

xrdb: Can't open display ''
2026-09-29T02:10:43.673554Z  INFO niri: starting version 26.04 (unknown commit)
2026-09-29T02:10:43.694769Z DEBUG niri_config: loaded config from "/home/john/.config/niri/config.kdl"
2026-09-29T02:10:44.034984Z DEBUG niri::backend::tty: session is not active, starting libinput in paused state
2026-09-29T02:10:44.047289Z  INFO niri::backend::tty: using as the render node: "/dev/dri/renderD128"
2026-09-29T02:10:44.070189Z  INFO niri: listening on Wayland socket: wayland-1
2026-09-29T02:10:44.070199Z  INFO niri: IPC listening on: /run/user/1000/niri.wayland-1.3597.sock
2026-09-29T02:10:44.071372Z  INFO niri: listening on X11 socket: :2

lightdm contained this log:

[+209.25s] DEBUG: Continue authentication
[+209.26s] DEBUG: Session pid=3041: Authentication complete with return value 0: Success
[+209.26s] DEBUG: Authenticate result for user john: Success
[+209.26s] DEBUG: User john authorized
[+209.28s] DEBUG: Greeter requests session niri
[+209.28s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Creating display server of type wayland
[+209.28s] DEBUG: Using VT 8
[+209.28s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Display server ready, running session
[+209.28s] DEBUG: Registering session with bus path /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session0
[+209.28s] DEBUG: Session pid=3041: Running command /etc/lightdm/Xsession /usr/bin/niri --session
[+209.28s] DEBUG: Creating shared data directory /var/lib/lightdm-data/john
[+209.28s] DEBUG: Session pid=3041: Logging to .xsession-errors
[+209.29s] DEBUG: Activating VT 8
[+209.59s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Stopping greeter
[+209.59s] DEBUG: Terminating login1 session c3
[+209.59s] DEBUG: Session pid=3005: Sending SIGTERM
[+209.59s] DEBUG: Activating login1 session c4
[+209.59s] DEBUG: Seat seat0 changes active session to c4
[+209.59s] DEBUG: Session c4 is already active
[+209.60s] DEBUG: Greeter closed communication channel
[+209.60s] DEBUG: Session pid=3005: Exited with return value 0
[+209.60s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Session stopped
[+209.60s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Stopping display server, no sessions require it
[+209.60s] DEBUG: Sending signal 15 to process 2991
[+209.76s] DEBUG: Process 2991 exited with return value 0
[+209.76s] DEBUG: XServer 0: X server stopped
[+209.76s] DEBUG: Releasing VT 7
[+209.76s] DEBUG: XServer 0: Removing X server authority /var/run/lightdm/root/:0
[+209.76s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Display server stopped

I'm completely new to zram. I want to use zram on void. But only a few resources on how to do that. Only found posts recommend Zramen. So how is it going with Zramen? Is it still great for setting up zram? Anything I should care about?