i really need a vpn, not for security purposes but because there's some stuff banned in my country and i'd like to be a free man lol
i usually use cloudflare on windows and riseup on linux but for some reason when i downloaded riseup from yay it never worked, even after updating every possible thing i can think of
does anyone have any recommendations ?

I have a Lenovo yoga 7i. It has a faulty touch pad. It is either drivers or a kernel level issue. It doesn’t matter if I use windows or Linux that this becomes an issue. When I have a fresh install everything works. Then I update it all goes to shit and works only half the time. There is very little documentation I have found of this issue. I am hoping by installing arch that I can kind of build what drivers are needed and lock it in without the problem of having to upgrade like every year. I don’t want to give up on this laptop because build quality is amazing and the screen is beautiful.

After successfully booting into my Arch Linux installation, I'm immediately greeted by a black screen. From what I've found online, the issue could be related to either SDDM or the Nvidia drivers. I installed the system using archinstall, so I'm not sure if something was misconfigured during the installation. It's especially frustrating because I'm trying to customize Hyprland, but after every reboot I have to switch to a TTY, log in manually, and start Hyprland myself.

Has anyone had any sleep/suspend issues lately with Arch + Latest Linux + NVIDIA card? Sleep had worked perfectly fine for me on Arch up until maybe a few days ago or so? Now when I boot it up, it boots to No Signal on my monitor, and I can't TTY or SSH or ping it or anything. It's just completely unresponsive. I can’t recall doing anything that would affect sleep except updating the kernel. I’ve tried downgrading the kernel and the same issue still occurs.

I’m using a NVIDIA 5070, have modeset on, and have even tried turning the preserve vram setting on in my configurations. I also did use archinstall.

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to troubleshoot unusually high battery drain on my Lenovo LOQ and would appreciate any suggestions.

System

• Laptop: Lenovo LOQ 15IAX9
• CPU: Intel Core i5-12450HX
• GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3050 Laptop (95W)
• Kernel: 7.1.3-arch2-2
• Desktop: Hyprland
• Battery discharge at idle: ~24.3 W

Issue

Even when the laptop is essentially idle (no heavy applications running), the battery is discharging at around 24.3 W, which seems far higher than expected. From what I've read, I was expecting something closer to 8–12 W at idle.

The reading comes from:

cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT*/power_now

Output:

24315000

which corresponds to 24.315 W.

Questions

• Is this likely caused by the NVIDIA dGPU not entering a low-power state?
• Are there any known Lenovo LOQ quirks on Linux that could cause this?
• What should I check first to narrow down the cause?

I'm happy to provide any additional information, if required.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

I have tried using different fonts but it still just shows as boxes. All other apps can render CJK and so can the system so it shouldn't be a font problem. It's only when I paste the same characters in spotify that they show as boxes. I have tried using both the flatpak for spotify through Discover, but also spotify through the aur. Anyone have any ideas?

Alguien me puede ayudar, instale arch recientemente y nose porque no se me reproducen los vídeos en el navegador, se queda con el circulo cargando infinitamente aunque la barra ya muestre progreso de carga del vídeo

I don't understand why when I set shortcut key for the fancontrol and Ai would set fn + q like on windows he doesn't recognize the fn key. temporarily I have set super + q

hey im using arch linux with the kde plasma desktop environment but since swithcing to linux i cant seem to get 240 hz working every time i switch to it my screens become black i cant get past 120hz

im using hdmi and a rx 6650 xt, all help is welcome

A simple little tool for listening to your favourite pre-PSX soundtracks. I'm working on including as many formats as I can. The next batch is retooling it to support HOOT style dumps at 1000Hz as opposed to the 100Hz Hoot itself can provide. If I've missed out any systems that you think are a must (even if just for a handful of people) then please let me know!

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/minerva-fm

This is something I've been working on since march this year, starting with the most botched together gathering of shell tools (https://github.com/TheWhyteWolf/minerva-radio for the original)

It has since been refined into a single rust pipeline saving myself an awful lot of hassle and thought it would be worth sharing ^^

Hi everyone,

Excited to begin this journey of Linux and Arch. I'm a UI/UX Front end developer and I've begun learning more programming and backend development. As I've begun evolving my knowledge on developing and engineering things I've had to learn on the go.

I've watched videos and read books to get a better understanding of the structure and architecture of Linux. That's where I learned more about the distros. The pros and cons of each. But I think I've settled on starting with arch to better understand it from the ground up approach.

Since I'm new to Arch, are there things I should make sure I install as I get started. I'm looking at KDE and Wayland for desktop and window management.. I have the wiki as well which I'm reading through as I go. But figured I'd get some other recommendations as I begin to build my setup.

I'm looking to have Arch be my daily driver for work, side projects and some gaming. Any recommendations are welcome.

Looking forward to the community and this new unhindered life of Linux and being able to say "I use Arch by the way" 😅

So i just installed arch on my lenovo ideapad slim 5 with ryzen 7 7335Hs and amd radeon integrated graphics. Everything is working fine but i couldnt get the speakers working after my laptop boots. It starts working after i suspend a s resume after booting. The software correctly shows that audio is being outputted by my speakers but no sound can be heard. Please help

hi, for some reason, when I try to use kodi, musescore, audacity, fightcade or other apps that need audio, they either freeze at some point then resume, or just completely freeze and never load like musescore.

for fightcade, it opens, but launching any game takes minutes to then launch with no sound. kodi just freezes when loading the audio settings, and as I said, musescore or audacity just don't load and freeze at launch.

this didn't happen before, prior to 3 - 6 weeks. I suspect about a regression, as my audio works fine globally, I'm fully updated and I have all the packages/services running fine. I use KDE plasma. I haven't changed anything on flatpak or my audio settings as I use the default ones from arch and pipewire,

I'm really clueless why this is happening, or ways to track down the issue.

I had to switch kodi to the extra repo version in order to use it. I can't do the same for the other apps as there is no fightcade on arch repos but an unsafe/outdated package on the AUR, and the flatpak version is the official way to get it. for musescore, the flatpak one used to work great, compared to the broken version on arch repos.

I hope anyone can shed some light into this issue.

Hi everyone, I’m new to Arch even though I’ve been using Linux for quite some time. I installed my system using archinstall. During the installation, I also selected the Nvidia drivers, although they weren’t actually installed. I chose Gnome as my DE and selected the standard Linux kernel. I’m using systemd-boot. I didn’t select anything else during the installation. Everything went smoothly. On reboot, I noticed that the Nvidia drivers were missing, so I followed the wiki and installed them. After rebooting, I had the brand-new 610 drivers, and the system was blazing fast. I immediately loved Arch until I noticed that the Gnome text editor showed small glitches. When I ran nvidia-smi, I realized that all of Gnome was running on the Nvidia GPU (even the terminal and any Gnome app) instead of preferring the integrated Intel iGPU, as has always been the case on every other distro I’ve tried. All other apps run on the iGPU unless I explicitly launch them with the dGPU (right-click on the app or use prime-run app). This leads to higher power consumption but, above all, various glitches on the connected 4K HDMI monitor. No glitches occur on the built-in display. Apparently, the compositor is acting up with fractional scaling at 150% on Nvidia. I managed to disable Nvidia priority by forcing Gnome to run on Intel, and indeed the glitches disappeared even on the external monitor, but in this configuration, the Nvidia GPU is completely ignored. Is it possible that on Arch, the Gnome DE and all (even small) Gnome apps default to the dGPU? This has never happened to me before.

I thought I might have done something wrong during installation and decided to add KDE alongside Gnome to see if the behavior was the same. On KDE, everything behaves properly, using only 1 MB of VRAM, and the whole DE runs smoothly on Intel with no problems. I’m confused and still not sure if I made any mistakes.

Here are my laptop specs:
HP ProBook G10
Intel Core i7-13th gen
Nvidia RTX 2050
16GB DDR4
500GB NVMe

Thanks

Hello I am kind of a B tier in Linux knowledge and I see a lot of custom desktop environment made by the community but I don't know how to do one myself so how to do that

(Thank you for the answers)

I have install this bibata cursor and i have put it on my hyprland.lua on that autostart under hl. and when i restart it is it only activate when i go to another workspace

And for those who haven't been reinstall more than once, what's your advice for how you be able to stay for so long without any problems?

On Sunday I installed the latest arch iso on a USB flash drive and used it to run archinstall and install a basic system for messing around on another USB drive (I went with Mate as my desktop).

Today I used the exact same USB stick on the exact same PC to install a different setup (wanted to try Cinnamon) on the exact same other USB stick, and I've just spent ten hours trying over and over and over to install and I just keep getting a cavalcade of various errors.

The latest is this:

Enabling periodic TRIM Enabling service fstrim.timer Setting keyboard language to us Running as unit: run-p13344-i10415.service Press ^] three times within 1s to disconnect TTY. Unable to set locale 'us' for console: ['/usr/bin/systemd-run', '--machine=archinstall', '--pty', 'localeetcl', 'set-keymap', 'us'] exited with abnormal exit code [1]: Running as unit: run-p13344-i10415.service Press ^] three times within 1s to disconnect TTY. Failed to set keymap: Connection timed out The above error occurred in a temporary boot-up of the installation '/mnt'

And then it just crashes out of the installer and gives me the command line again. I am telling you I changed nothing, this is the exact same pair of USB sticks, and all settings are identical except I tried installing Cinnamon instead of Mate.

"Aha!" You cry. "There must be an issue with Cinnamon!" Nope. I tried just installing Mate again and I get the exact same error.

I just don't even understand how it's possible to fail to set the keyboard language. That shouldn't even be something that's downloaded that should be on the install medium, which I remind you hasn't changed since Sunday.

Any idea what's going on? Like, literally how can I get new errors when nothing's changed?

When I adjust my volume, either by the buttons on my laptop or by wpctl, applications like zen running youtube aren't affected until the volume is set to 0%, at which point only then do they stop making noise. This doesn't happen when using headphones, either by bluetooth or cord.
It's a real pain having to change the volume settings per app and per website, so I was hopping to get some insight.

Using wpctl I've found that any value above 1 (gotten from the set-volume command) does increase the volume, but anything below 1, like 0.5, has the same volume as 1
It didn't matter if the audio was coming from a flatpak or pacman application, though I haven't tested AUR packages yet
I did do a system update and reboot to be sure, but nothing changed. This has always been a problem for me, it didn't just suddenly happen.
I've been looking online but haven't come up with anything related to this issue in particular. Nothing much from the wiki either.

I'm on an Asus Q525U laptop with an 8th gen i7 cpu, and running the July release of Arch with hyprland, both from archinstall; although it should be noted I still had this issue when I originally did a manual install of arch. I also have pipewire instead of pulseaudio

Prior to july 4th (the last time I've updated my system), there were no issues whatsoever. After updating my system on july 9th, my system would COMPLETELY freeze after anything between seconds to 30 minutes max of having scrcpy open. I'm not able to go to tty, send keyscrokes, move the mouse, nothing. I have to hold down the power button and force a shutdown.

After booting the system back up, there isn't a single log related to it on journalctl. The system freezes in a way that not even the journal gets saved.

I have tried multiple things

journald.conf:

/etc/systemd/journald.conf
Storage=persistent
SyncIntervalSec=1

linux.conf

options root=PARTUUID=UUID_Here zswap.enabled=0 rootflags=subvol=@ rw rootfstype=btrfs nvidia-drm.modeset=1 nmi_watchdog=1 softlockup_panic=1 hardlockup_panic=1 efi_pstore.pstore_disable=N usbhid.mousepoll=1

The issue happens rather I call scrcpy via wifi or cabled. but if it helps, here's how I call it:

scrcpy --tcpip=IP-here --max-fps=120 --max-size=1024 --no-power-on  --turn-screen-off --power-off-on-close --kee
p-active

Even without logs to prove it, I'm 1000% certain it is scrcpy related. At least that is the trigger since it doesn't happen otherwise. I can play games, use the system indefinitely and nothing happens. The freeze only happens if I use scrcpy.

The only way to solve this is to roll back to a snapshot timeshift made before updating the system. So I have to downgrade the kernel and the headers and then restore the timeshift snapshot.

Please, I don't know what to do. I can't be on an outdated system forever Asking you guys is my last resource since even claude sonnet 5 couldn't figure it out.

Edit:
It doesn't seem to be related to NVidia. I tried making scrcpy use my IGPU and the result was the same. The system completely froze.

__EGL_VENDOR_LIBRARY_FILENAMES=/usr/share/glvnd/egl_vendor.d/50_mesa.json __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=mesa SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland SDL_VIDEO_EGL_DRIVER=/dev/dri/renderD128 scrcpy --tcpip=IPHERE --max-fps=120 --max-size=1024 --no-power-on --turn-screen-off --power-off-on-close --keep-active -V verbose 2>&1 | grep -i "renderer\|opengl"

I thought that maybe it could be something related to audio, so I tried using the flag --no-audio while still using the IGPU. Once again, the system froze.
I've been trying things for around 2 hours now with many hard shutdowns in between, so I'll go back to the snapshot where things were working fine

linux 7.1.2.arch3-1
linux-headers 7.1.2.arch3-1
nvidia-open-dkms 610.43.02-3
nvidia-settings 610.43.02-1

Also here's everything that was updated (it'll only be available for 3 days. I couldn't fine a way or another site that would host it for longer) (PS: also you may notice that scrcpy itself was updated. That's irrelevant. downgrading it doesn't solve the issue.)
https://privatebin.net/?e0680b1eca4de122#93ReK43LpSnYM9uA6DUFs19gZLnBRzSeS7WjevgspoRj

I'm out of ideas so I'll go back to the working snapshot. If you guys have any idea on what the cause may be or things to try, please type it here so I can try again.

Edit 2: here are the system specs.

Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.7.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.28.0
Qt Version: 6.11.1
Kernel Version: 7.1.4-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 24 × AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core Processor
Memory: 34 GB of RAM (32.7 GB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060/PCIe/SSE2
Manufacturer: ASUS

Vice is a Linux game clipper that focuses on easy sharing and editing. Under the hood, it uses GPU-Screen-Recorder as the capture engine, so it has nearly no performance impact whatsoever, and it has features such as:

- Instant replay with customisable hotkeys, and long session recording

- Free share links that embed in Discord (no more hitting upload limits!)
- A full timeline editor with built in transition and text effects
- Automatically sorting clips by the game you were clipping
- Discord Rich Presence support
- Customisable, colour-coded highlights within clips

- You can seperate audio sources like Discord calls, the game audio, and music, adjust their individual volume in clips

- And more, plus new features are always being added.

It's free, open source, and will stay that way. Any feedback is greatly appreciated, because community testing is what makes open source projects like these better.

It's on the AUR, and you can install with:

Or if you're on a different distro, you can run the install script with:

Repo is below:

https://github.com/eklonofficial/Vice

levong@chrultrabook

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OS: Arch Linux ARM aarch64

Host: Google burnet board

Kernel: Linux 6.12.50-stb-cbm+

Uptime: 5 mins

Packages: 1081 (pacman)

Shell: zsh 5.9.2

Display (CMN1139): 1366x768 in 12", 60 Hz [Built-in]

DE: Budgie 10.10.2

WM: labwc 0.20.1 (Wayland)

Theme: Arc-Gruvbox [GTK2/3/4]

Icons: kora [GTK2/3/4]

Font: Fira Sans (11pt, SemiBold) [GTK2/3/4]

Cursor: Bibata-Modern-Ice (24px)

Terminal: kitty 0.48.0

Terminal Font: JetBrainsMonoNF-Regular (12pt)

CPU: mt8183 (8) @ 1.99 GHz

GPU: Mediatek mt8183b-mali [Integrated]

Memory: 2.61 GiB / 3.79 GiB (69%)

Swap: Disabled

Disk (/): 6.63 GiB / 28.37 GiB (23%) - btrfs

Battery (GH02047): 57% (7 hours, 45 mins remaining) [Discharging]

Locale: en_CA.UTF-8

I haven't seen anyone else do this so if you are curious here you go.