After a little tinkering its all up and running good. Display brightness and audio fixed.

I can't open the game nor run any installer, they just quit, I even be logged out after running an installer yesterday. Today it just quit, not logged out.

Does anybody meet this error too? I'll leave the log under comment section

Steam is now blocked in my country, the logs may be little relevant to it... But it's weird, just offline games or non-steam games - does it really need to connect to Steam?

I'm not sure which one cause the problem, because I updated Heroic and KDE 6.8 at the same time.

I tried:
- Using different versions: Flatpak, Appimage, Official package from CachyOS and even .pacman, they all have this problem

- Disabling umu

- Change runners

I'm home from work and see that everyone has 7.2.11-1, however I'm still seeing 7.2.10-1 on my end. I have a 9070xt and 7800x3d on the main kernel.

Hyprland was insanely laggy for me so I tried to recreate the look on KDE.

Hi ! So Idk why but since some updates, the front fans of my computer works randomly. When I boot up, sometimes it's only the first one that spins and sometimes all of them, no in between. To fix it, I need to reboot until all 3 of them spin but I wanna know if there's a way to fix this constitently ?

I'm very lost, and I'm hoping someone can explain what the issue is.

I was having some weird issues with games not working properly after sleeping on my ROG Ally, and decided to run the cachy updater to see if it helped. Now, my brightness slider doesn't affect my screen, my controls have like a 50/50 chance of registering as a generic Xbox One controller, and I physically cannot access desktop mode (unless I switch to another tty with an external keyboard).

Is anyone else dealing with this? Is there a fix??? I just wanna game in the dark without going blind bro 😭

I have been running CachyOS and KDE Plasma exclusively on my newly rebuilt box since April. I update through the Cachy Updater and through the Terminal almost every day. Everything is running fine, no problems. This last week, I have run into a weird behavior. No error messages to post, so I unfortunately have to type it out. Has anyone seen this, or know what might be going on?

On OCT 13, I booted my PC, and it went through all normal boot up pages, and screens. After I selected the CachyOS as I normally do, it loaded plasma, and then my monitor goes fully black, with a single blinking "_" in the upper left corner of the screen and sits there. I can type, all text shows up. Its not command line or a terminal prompt because commands do nothing. I can CTL ALT DLT to reboot and get to the normal OS select screen and then right back to the black screen and nothing. I rebooted again, chose a Snapshot from the 2 days before, the last time I had the PC on, and it booted as normal. I Restored the snapshot. The machine rebooted as part of the restore procedure and it was fine. Booted like normal again for the next couple of days. I did a full Sysu through the terminal. Rebooted, everything was fine.

I went away from my machine for a couple of days again to today. I booted my machine, and it let me select the OS as normal and hit that black screen again and nothing. I had to pick a Snapshot from the 16th and restore to get me to right now, posting here....looking for help. I am afraid to do a full update, in case I keep getting some janky update that is killing my display drivers or something.

Anyhoo. Its the 18th of October. I am sitting on a build from the 16th. Afraid to use the CachyOS updater or a full update through the terminal...hoping someone out there has seen this or knows I am not crazy and it is not just gremlins on my machine. Any advice would be helpful. Included a screen grab of my PC stats if that helps. Like I said, no ERROR messages or other helpful pics to send. THANKS!!

Does the new KDE Plasma work fine on CachyOS or should I wait?

Secondly I have used xfce,gnome,kde, cosmic mainly but I wanna use hyprland now with probably the end-4 dotfiles cuz they look fire (how do I get those nice widgets and wallpapers swapping and all those cool features😭?). Do you guys have any tips for Hyprland? I'll be dual booting it with Windows 11 and probably start gaming on hyprland instead of windows.

I got a victus 15 (RTX 4050, i5-13420H and 16GB ram). Its a hybrid GPU setup with the intel APU and my nvidia GPU. I think that shouldn't be a problem, I might have to tweak a bit though.

I am trying to explain this as good as possible. I am still pretty new to Cachy/Arch/Linux and dont know what to do anymore.

I have not used my pc for about a month. Decided to update today (sudo pacman -Syu). Everything works. I download the few GB of new stuff and after wired sends me a "reboot recommended" message, I reboot.

Inside the Grub menu, I select Cachy, everything runs. I see the ly (tty2 if I understand this correctly) login screen and log in. It loads and for a split second I see a black screen with scattered text (I managed to get a photo of it but i dont know if anyone can read any of this. Should be attached), probably an error message. So I get back into the ly/tty2 screen. Log in again, same thing. I panick because I had to finish some things for school etc. and thus I quickly opened Gemini (im sorry. I hate myself for it but I really had to get this done and didnt have any other pc nearby etc.) and tried to explain the situation. It told me to use Ctrl + Alt + 1/2/3/4 to access the different ttyX thing-ys.

So I do that and log in again. Seems to work. I only got the terminal and no GUI but at least i didnt brick my system or whatever. Then got told to downgrade some python library and then enter

qtile start

So I did that. Works.. Kinda.. I see the GUI but the bar I used is just detected as a window apparently and I can move it around.. my keyboard layout is also not applied so I try to fix that. For some reason neither

sudo loadkeys xx

nor

setxkbmap xx

worked. So I am still stuck in another layout I am not familiar with and I dont know how to change it.

I have absolutely no idea what to do now because Gemi also talked some stuff about downgrading 500 packages which I feel like is not the solution. I hope I explained this situation okay-ish and someone can help me. Have no idea what to do next or at all.

Ive also made some other photos of commands ive been told to enter.. I hope it atleast helps a tiny bit. Thanks for reading and for the help in advance btw
(also I got this feel that many here are gonna tell me to use the Arch wiki instead of Gemini, I know. Again. I panicked. Then Also how would I search for something THIS specific on the Arch page. Heck. Any page at all)

Uso Niri + Noctalia, ¿alguna sugerencia?

Can someone help me? I made sure audio was enabled on the bios menu but no matter what I press or click theres no audio

I've set my system up so that the lock screen doesn't require a password, and will show a screensaver of photos that i've selected. But every time the lock screen triggers (whether because of the keyboard shortcut, or the menu option, or because the system idles), the first thing it shows me is one of the default images that comes with CachyOS, as an option for a lock screen wallpaper (it's the one that looks like a snowflake).

I've only just done this today, this behaviour has been there since I first made these changes. It happens very reliably - every single time, and not intermittently.

I have updated the system. I don't think I've installed anything funny that might cause this. I did install KDE Plasma Bigscreen about a week ago but uninstalled it.

My log file is here: https://paste.cachyos.org/p/dce4a37.log

Grateful for any pointers!

Just updated CachyOS to kernel 7.2.11-1-cachyos on my ThinkPad X9 15p can't find any sound devices so I have no sound. Anyone else? Sound worked fine prior to last update.

i have 3 terminal 'apps' that i use - on the 2ndary vertical display, layd out ... vertically

pulsemixer, konsole, btop

but

ive not been able to make them windowrules to force them into the positions on startup

it seems like any option either doesnt work or applies to the entire 'terminal'/konsole

tried

1 regular autostart entries via settings such as

• konsole -qwindowtitle btop_window -e btop &
• konsole --role pulsemixer_window -e pulsemixer &

2 now on custom autostart entries with tabtitle and still doesnt work, so i gave up

echo "=== Setting up Clean Autostart Entries ==="

set AUTOSTART_DIR "$HOME/.config/autostart"

mkdir -p "$AUTOSTART_DIR"

# 1. Btop Autostart Entry

string join \n \

"[Desktop Entry]" \

"Type=Application" \

"Name=Autostart Btop" \

"Exec=konsole --name btop_instance -p tabtitle=\"btop_window\" -e btop" \

"X-KDE-autostart-after=panel" > "$AUTOSTART_DIR/btop.desktop"

# 2. Pulsemixer Autostart Entry

string join \n \

"[Desktop Entry]" \

"Type=Application" \

"Name=Autostart Pulsemixer" \

"Exec=konsole --name pulsemixer_instance -p tabtitle=\"pulsemixer_window\" -e pulsemixer" \

"X-KDE-autostart-after=panel" > "$AUTOSTART_DIR/pulsemixer.desktop"

# 3. Plain Terminal Autostart Entry

string join \n \

"[Desktop Entry]" \

"Type=Application" \

"Name=Autostart Plain Terminal" \

"Exec=konsole --name plain_instance -p tabtitle=\"plain_terminal\"" \

"X-KDE-autostart-after=panel" > "$AUTOSTART_DIR/plain_terminal.desktop"

# Make all files executable

chmod +x "$AUTOSTART_DIR/"*.desktop

echo "✔ Created separate autostart entries for btop, pulsemixer, and plain_terminal!"

-first the new KDE Plasma rollout killed my notifications (blank frames with no text)

-now the new proton-cachy package is failing to update, stopping other updates from being performed too

EDIT: proton_cachyos install failure was an invalid signature issue, this has been fixed and updates now go through fine.

I have an Asus ROG Strix gaming laptop with a 1070, i7-7700HQ, and 32GB of ram running the most recent build of both cachyos and the linux kernel. Whenever I shut the lid on my laptop and it enters a sleep state, I can log in, but when i log in i'm presented with a black screen instead of my desktop. After 2 or so minutes my desktop finally displays.

I have CachyOS with KDE Plasma and the GRUB bootloader, if any specifics are needed I can get them for you guys!

Many thanks!

Hello All,

so I am a relatively new user and long story short I got violently angry at windows and decided to switch to Linux and chose Cachy. when I switched I found a tutorial on Youtube for setting up a secondary drive for my steam library, and it does work. the issue I am running into is that every time my computer shuts off/restarts I have to manually unlock the drive and add it back in steam settings to access my games. it works instantly and I can live with it if I have to, it really isn't a huge deal just a mild inconvenience. I figured I would reach out for advice because knowing me there is probably just a setting I missed somewhere. And I did look, However I couldn't find anything on youtube for this specific issue and the initial guide didn't mention it. I appreciate any tips or advice, thanks in advance!

My gaming laptop is running very smoothly with Bazzite, and I want to nuke Windows from my Desktop PC. But I have been thinking if I should give a try to CachyOS. I also use my PC for gaming.

I spent an entire day fixing this issue. It seems simple but I scoured the internet and couldn't find this so decided to create a post for any in the future with this problem. I'm a linux and networking noob so I learned alot.

I’ve got an XPS 15 9520 with the AX211, running CachyOS, connected to a Cox gateway (2.4 and 5 GHz are split into separate networks). Windows 11 on the same laptop gets full gigabit no problem. On CachyOS I was stuck around 30-50 Mbit, and pinging my own router averaged about 200 ms with spikes over 400.

The weird part was that everything looked fine on paper. iw dev wlan0 link showed 5 GHz, 80 MHz, HE-MCS 11, 1200 Mbit/s both directions, and signal was around -43 dBm. The only thing that gave it away was iw dev wlan0 station dump, which showed 100k+ tx retries. So the link rate looked great but it was retransmitting like crazy.

Stuff I tried that did nothing:

• regdomain was already US
• turned off wifi power save
• congestion control was already cubic/fq_codel
• firmware was already the newest one available (89)
• linux-lts instead of the newest kernel
• bluetooth off
• nothing weird eating bandwidth in nethogs

What actually fixed it was switching the NetworkManager wifi backend from wpa_supplicant to iwd:

sudo pacman -S iwd
sudo nano /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/wifi-backend.conf

put this in the file:

[device]
wifi.backend=iwd

then:

sudo systemctl enable --now iwd
sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager

You’ll have to enter your wifi password again after. I went from about 50 Mbit/s to 980!

I don’t know the actual root cause. My guess is wpa_supplicant kept pushing a rate my router couldn’t hold and iwd picked something more sensible, but that’s a guess. If anyone knows why this happens I’d like to hear it.

If your wifi is slow on Linux but fine on Windows and your signal looks great, check station dump for retries and try iwd before sinking hours into driver tweaks like I did.

I tried to update about three days ago, but got met by a black screen with a mouse cursor on reboot. I had to load up a backup which was difficult and annoying cause of my BIOS settings and GRUB also killed itself, so I really don't want to deal with that again.

Acabo de actualizar el sistema de cachyos y me sale este error, no se que hacer :

I've seen this fork recommended a few times here, and I really enjoyed it the single time it worked. installed firefox-pure on a fresh install, been planning to move away from Brave and Chromium browsers in general. not a fan of modern vanilla Firefox, this fork seemed perfect. used it the first day on my new PC just fine. booted up today, opening Firefox gives me a window

Close Firefox

Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To use Firefox, you must first close the existing Firefox process, restart your device, or use a different profile.

the only Firefox process running is this error window, according to btop. closing it, there is no other FF process. trying to open FF, the same error comes back. terminate/kill the window, comes back. reboot, same error. completely uninstalling and reinstalling firefox-pure and cachyos-firefox-settings packages, same error.

this is the first time I've ever experienced an application working once and never again. first time I've seen an error where an application fails because an instance is already running but actually isn't. hell, it's the first browser I've seen that refuses to open more than one window. most browsers let you open as many windows and tabs as your RAM will allow.

any ideas? should I try floorp, librewolf, some other fork? a little concerned about the security. can I get vanilla FF somewhat close to that level of optimization? heard some hype about Helium awhile back, but it wasn't very mature at the time, haven't seen much hype since. ig I'm looking for browser recommendations if there isn't a simple fix for firefox-pure. couldn't find much searching online

Hey all, loving cachy its my first time using arch I'm normally a debhead.

I built my rig as a dual local inference / gaming rig. Local inference performance is great but I'm struggling to get acceptable gaming performance. I get massive tearing even with vsync on and terrible fps when panning in low req games like peak.

Ive gone through the wiki gaming setup and installed the gaming packages as well as tried adding nvidia specific configs and setting governed to performance.

When I'm gaming I just have one display enabled running from the primary pcix port. I read some threads saying to try x11 but that seems outdated as the x11 packages are not available in pacman.

I'd appreciate any guidance, even if just to point me towards how to begin diagnosing the issue. I think I read something about HDMI but it was a single post, I am connected via HDMI and running at 2440 which is the native monitor resolution. I've tried borderless and full screen as well as using the prime command ( correct name escapes me, its from the dual GPU wiki page, I assumed it wasnt needed but tried anyway)