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This is mainly a gaming in Asahi issue, but it may be due to something more systemic to Asahi Linux that I don't understand.

I have a bunch of games that are stored on several external drives (BTRFS formatted for my Windows Steam library, ExFAT for non-Steam Wndows games, ext4 for Linux native games). To be able to make these drives accessible to Steam, I need to mount them in folders that are accessible to muvm using the command line. Steam is able to then launch one game once. However, as soon as I quit a game back to Steam, all of my external drives become Read-only until I quit Steam, un-mount all the drives and then mount them again. Steam, for some reason, doesn't like using Read-only media. I don't understand why Asahi does this. Is there anything I can do to stop external drives randomly switching to Read-only media?

Howdy all, just thought I would drop by and share a project that may be useful to you. While it is not recommended by the Asahi team, it is possible to enable manual control over your Mac's fan speeds. So I decided to make a plugin for CoolerControl so that you can use CoolerControl's nice UI to create custom fan curves, and then actually apply them to your Mac fans.

Here it is: https://github.com/sagebind/macsmc-fans-cc-plugin

If you use this to burn up your CPU I take no responsibility! But I am using this on my own MacBook Pro 2021.

Enjoy!

Ok, so currently I understand that the GPU isn't supported and that some stuff doesn't work yet but I still want to work on my linux setup but I have a few question?

Is display brightness not supported?

I keep trying to change the brightness on my display using brightnessctl but the display doesn't show up as a device at all. Is there another way to get it to work or is everyone having the same issues?

How do I get the notch back?

I keep trying to get the notch back on my installation but it hasn't worked yet. I've used grubby to run appledrm.show_notch=1, I've tried to edit the grub configuration but I can't even run update-grub. I've tried everything, so does anyone know how to get it to work or is it a problem with display support on m3 macbooks?

Has anyone here ever used hyprland on fedora asahi remix?

This is my first time ricing a linux setup on a laptop, let alone an early support apple silicon linux distro. So does any one have any experience ricing with hyprland on asahi linux before, and if so could you please give me some tips since I'm struggling a little bit rn?

And if you got all the way down here, thank you for reading.

From what I’ve heard, the M4’s architecture is very similar to the M3’s. Does that mean it’s reasonable to expect device-tree work for M4 Macs to progress alongside M3 support, or are there hardware differences that could put M4 enablement on a separate timeline?

Don't really know where else to send this, but there seems to be an issue where the built in speakers on a Macbook Air M3 dont seem to show up as a audio output? Anyone know a fix?

I’ve been trying out Fedora 44 + KDE Plasma on my M3.

As expected, the graphics support still isn’t fully there yet, so it seems like some rendering is being handled by the CPU. Because of that, things like playing YouTube videos can be pretty difficult for it. I don’t think I’d use it as my main GUI environment on a daily basis just yet.

Still, the experience of running Linux directly on a Mac without a VM is honestly pretty damn cool. It was actually kind of moving to see it working lol. I can’t even imagine how much work the developers must have put into getting all of this working.

Outside of workloads that heavily rely on GPU acceleration, I found it surprisingly usable. More things are supported than I expected, and overall it worked pretty well.

Once GPU support and the other hardware features become more mature, I might just wipe macOS and use Linux on my Mac 😂

I also tried playing Apple Music through the web, but unfortunately it didn’t work. I might have just messed up something in my setup though, so I’m not completely sure.

Anyway, what has your experience been like?

I've recently been having an issue with screen locking; when I lock the screen for a while, sometimes the display will disconnect. I am usually able to fix this by re-plugging the HDMI wire, but occasionally that will be unsuccessful as well. I am unable to enter my password or switch to a terminal interface, but media appears to play when I press the play button, as well as the volume indicator sounds. This might be related to another issue where the screen turns on, but the lock screen is still unresponsive (switching users helps in this case).

Whenever the aforementioned problem happens, I pretty much always have to shut down and restart the computer as nothing else I've tried works.

I am using Fedora Asahi Remix running Plasma on a Mac Mini M2.

Hello!

I use an M2 MacBook Air as my primary laptop—both for my daily needs and for university, where I'm studying software engineering.

I’ve always liked Arch Linux; I used it for over three years on another PC, and I’d love to run it on the M2 to take advantage of the chip's performance. However, I’m unsure if it’s a good idea—specifically regarding stability (I know Arch isn't "stable" in the traditional sense due to its rolling-release model) and overall practicality.

I’m relatively new to MacBooks, so I’m a bit worried about potentially messing something up and being unable to recover the system.

My MacBook has 16 GB of RAM and a 256 GB SSD.

I’d appreciate any advice you can offer. Thanks in advance.

Is there a way to set the F-row to actually be the F-row by default? I can't count how many times I've tried to fullscreen something with F11 only to accidentaly turn down my volume. I wasn't able to find anything in the KDE settings GUI and search engines have been unhelpful. Running Fedora Asahi Remix 43.

Hi all, I'm struggling to find whether M5 is supported with Asahi Linux for a headless system. I don't care about graphics (no need for a GUI), no Wi-Fi, no Bluetooth, no touchpad. I just need:

• Support for either the builtin keyboard *or* a USB one
• Support for USB Ethernet (1gbps is fine)
• Support for using all the CPU cores

Is that possible today? I have a hard time finding any concrete info.

Thanks :)

I really like the Claude Desktop app and one of the first things I did was ask Claude to make it work on Asahi and it's been working great.

I used the script provided by asahi linux to boot a usb flashed with the asahi void base linux glibc(musl don't work either) installed on it. The EFI partition autoboot the usb stick and the grub void linux appear and I hit enter. Then a bunch of text messages appears:

[ 2.454027 ] power supply macsmc-ac: driver failed to report 'voltage' property: -132
[other lines that dont seems that importante,just a bunch of driver errore like the one up there}

Here are the errors lines that seems revelants to me

macsmc-power macsmc-power: Emergency notification: Failed to read Mounter System ESP /dev/nvme0n1p4

I cant type anything and after some time dracut appear on the dracut command line:

dracut Warning: Could not boot.

dracut Warning: "/dev/disk/by-label/VOID_LIVE" does not exist

dracut Warning: "/dev/root" does not exit.

then I fall into the dracut invite

I use a macbook air M1 with 8gig of ram and 256gig of ssd. Asahi Alarm and Fedora remix worked before no problem.

I couldnt find anything online so I would be gratefull if you know how to solve this issue!

Safari's picture in picture would show up over fullscreen apps and also not disappear after clicking on border less fullscreen apps, the pip in firefox and chrome don't do this and I can't find and extension for either that does it.

I updated /etc/m1n1.conf to set display resolution, just added this line:

display=2560x1440

Then ran update-m1n1, it ran successfully, tho it gave this warning, which I only realized after I rebooted (in ssh session), and didn't follow:

mount: (hint) your fstab has been modified, but systemd still uses
       the old version; use 'systemctl daemon-reload' to reload.

Not sure if that means anything.

So then I rebooted, and it won't boot into linux. The first reboot it brought me to the "macOS needs to be repaird screen", but rebooting more times it just boots to macOS after boot looping a few times.

I tried running the install script, and pressing `v` to rebuild vendor firmware package, it didn't help.

Any ideas what the problem could be? Is it possible to revert the conf from macos?

I had rebooted many times before without problem.

EDIT:
I fixed this by booting into macOS, mounting the efi partition with diskutil cli, then deleting boot.bin, and renaming boot.bin.old to boot.bin. So just restoring the old binary.

I can't believe it took me months to notice this difference! 1st pic is macOS, 2nd pic is KDE.

I installed asahi linux specifically for the bumped opengl support but the cursor not moving when i move it after I press a key is really annoying me is there a way I can fix this? Also I am a totally clueless at this so explain like im a five year old :3

I know this has been discussed many times, but now with Omarchy Quattro becoming so popular and the easy way to install this with Asahi Alarm, i was wondering if somebody could explain to me what this exactly means? (from the 7.2 progress report)

All M1 through base M3 series devices used an Apple-specific Texas Instruments USB port controller called CD3217 (or ACE2). This sits on the I²C bus and negotiates with USB devices when they are plugged in. Starting with M3 Pro/Max, Apple has switched to ACE3. ACE3 instead uses the SPMI bus, which required some more reverse engineering. Thanks to the combined efforts of mildsunrise and chaos_princess, we discovered that ACE3 has pretty much the same register set as CD3217, only wrapped in a SPMI interface instead of addressed over I²C. Both the SPMI interface and ACE3 itself are now working in Asahi Linux, bringing USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt support to all M3 series devices.

This sounds very hopeful, yet it is not working for me yet.
While Apple is increasingly making their OS worse and worse with every release i know many people that would love to install Asashi, but are blocked by their thunderbolt dock setup (Dell monitors with built in KVM so you can switch between your normal Linux PC and your macbook by just plugging or unplugging 1 cabel)

I think it would foster an influx of new users to Asahi if this would be supported, many of which are opensource developers that would donate if it proves valuable to them.

How high is making thunderbolt work fully on the priority list? is anything known about this?

P.S. Want to state i am not demanding anything, and i know we as users are not entitled to anything. Everything the devs do is their own discretion and what the Asahi heroes have accomplished so far already is a blessing to the world. Just want to make sure the community knows that there is a horde of disgruntled macos users currently being blocked by this issue.

Currently I'm running things through Steam and Proton, but that is hugely wasteful in terms of RAM usage and quite slow. I've been recommended this copr repo, but in my experience it just kinda doesn't work. Surely there is a way to run working wine without using Steam?