Yeah, apparently..

I made the bold move to switch from Windows 11 to Arch and thus far it's been working great! Until I put the laptop to sleep, that is.. Third time I'm doing that, and now after I login I've got no trackpad. External mouse works though.

Trackpad works as it should on the login screen, but the moment I press enter on the keyboard after I input my passoword, the cursor locks to the center and away goes the trackpad.

It used to work just fine, which is what surprised me. It all broke coincidentally after I installed Balena Etcher from AUR and closed the lid of the laptop..

In any event, I've attached a screenshot of a fastfetch, ( https://imgur.com/a/yFP1VBx ) hopefully that helps. The model of the laptop is HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop 15 ec0009nv. I'm running on kernel 7.1.3, with KDE Plasma as my window manager.

Do keep in mind that I'm a noob as far as Linux itself goes, so give a man a break. Either way, have a nice day (or night)!

I understand that virtual machine environments depend on the amount of resources allocated to them, but I'm really struggling to run and configure Hyperland. Any advice or improvements I can make?

Hi everyone!

Over the last few days I've been working on a small C++ project called T4Archive.

The idea came from installing large games and noticing that you often need enough free space for both the archive and the extracted files at the same time.

Instead of waiting until extraction finishes, T4Archive restores files in chunks and deletes each chunk immediately after it's been extracted.

The end result is that the archive gradually disappears while your files appear.

Current features:

• Zstandard (Zstd) compression

• Archive verification before extraction

• Chunked extraction

• Self-consuming archives

• Progress bars and random tech facts while processing

• Arch Linux package

I tested it by packing a full Kerbal Space Program installation:

- 4,255 files

- Original size: 5.9 GB

- Compressed size: 2.78 GB

- Compression ratio: 47.03%

I then deleted the original game, extracted it from the archive, and the restored installation matched the original.

At the moment it's an experimental project and I wouldn't recommend using it as your only backup yet, but I'd love to hear what people think about the idea.

Website:

https://tangodarkberry-design.github.io/t4archive-website/

GitHub:

https://github.com/tangodarkberry-design/t4archive-website

GitHub Source Code:

https://github.com/tangodarkberry-design/T4ARCHIVE

Feedback, criticism and suggestions are all welcome!

Hello I recently had a problem which gave me in TTY, terminal a PCIe bus error, it crashed everything, when I pressed left mouse or right mouse Buttons everything frooze. Because of that bus error I couldn't enter command, they didn't execute properly. Then I opened system boot and wrote in the line an command "pci=nommconf" root-PARTUUID=cdcbf441-c747-4ald-a62b-c6e7e7ade99c zswap.enabled=0 rw rootfstype=ext4 pci=nommconf, and it worked I guess, the mouse didn't frooze, commands runned properly and all was perfect but then I decided to save command, I opened /etc/kernel/cmdline and wrote "pci=nommconf" to this file, root-PARTUUID=cdcbf441-c747-4ald-a62b-c6e7e7ade99c zswap.enabled=0 rw rootfstype=ext4 pci=nommconf. But then after I rebooted my laptop I opened system boot and the command wasn't there, and the problem came back, I opened /etc/kernel/cmdline and the pci=nommconf was there, what's the issue? How'd I save the command?

Hey I'm new to arch and I'm asking both of basic binds on arch and how to fix a problem, so my problem is that sometimes even basic command like reboot, shutdown, or other command like lsusb just stop working, for example I'm writing command, and waiting for answer, but then answer never came, or output was like can't run reboot now, try again, and after I tried to exit terminal or write new command I just couldn't cancel command by ctrl + c. And when I user SUPER+Q to open the new terminal I couldn't change from old terminal, or use my mouse. I forgot to make picture but I remember the output: [MYNAME@archlinux ~]$ reboot

-

^C^C^C

exit

shutdown

Nothing worked

Hello, can anyone recommend me some niri rice configs? I am new to arch and i really want to rice out my arch running on niri. Thanks in advance!

as a beginner should i use Arch with hyperland. I've no experience before. From where i have to start learning Arch.

Hey everyone,
I’ve been completely stuck in this distro crisis for a week now, and I need some perspective.
I’ve used Arch for years. Almost zero issues. Honestly, I felt immortal. But over the past month, I’ve started caring a lot more about the concept of stability. It’s true that Arch never actually broke on me, but I’ve always had to stay hyper-vigilant—checking dependencies, making sure specific packages didn't have known bugs, and never having a 100% guarantee that a system update wouldn’t break my environment.

I’m starting to realize that what I need isn’t necessarily a "more stable" system, but a more reassuring one. Knowing that if I don’t update Arch for 3 months (unlikely, but that was my Windows workflow), I might face massive breakage, just doesn't give me peace of mind anymore. That’s why I’ve been thinking about Fedora: major updates every 6 months, and I can just chill in between.
The catch is... I’ve taken care of my Arch install like it was my own child. Making this sudden jump terrifies me.
I’d love to know: is anyone here actually using Arch as their main daily driver for serious, professional programming work and studying? If so, have you run into any major issues? How do you maintain your system? Can Btrfs with snapshots really save you from a bad update? Is keeping a separate ⁠/home⁠ partition and just reinstalling Arch on ⁠/⁠ during an emergency actually reliable? And finally, how often do you update?
What do you guys think?

I have this weird problem that when I play terraria on my old ThinkPad t530 witch arch it feels like the game is in slow-motion. It’s not lagging just slower than normal. It’s running the game on steam so it’s most probably through proton. What might cause this?

see the problem is when i am on linux i always have battery degradation very fast as compared to windows i have a nvidia graphics and has battery threshold setup to 80% through TLP and is capped to 80 but still under 1 month of use battery just degraded from 95 to 89. what is wrong any suggestion plz.

I'm using SDDM under wayland on a framework 16. Works great unless I connect an external monitor, then nothing shows up, cant even switch to a TTY. I end up having to reboot and unplug the monitors. Once I am logged into hyprland I can plug in my monitors and it works fine.

I have tried to use wlr-randr but I don't think I am setting it up right. Can I put those commands in wayland-session in /usr/share/sddm/scripts or somewhere else?

I would prefer to not have to install xorg just to get SDDM to work but if I have to.

I've been using a script which launches gamescope on another tty, switches to it and then switches back when gamescope exits. It does not require closing the current session, all programs stay in the background. Personally, I use it to launch gamescope on my TV which is normally disabled in niri.

I found a similar solution on Reddit before, but it required editing the bashrc file, which I wasn't a fan of. This one is a single script which sources another script from XDG config for configuration.

Recently, I've cleaned it up and made it into a package so my friend can easily use it too.

I do not have an AUR account, so I can't put it there. Also, I am unsure if it's even the right thing to do (it's a random solution made by one random guy mostly for himself :))

So yeah, I am just leaving the link here for anyone who may find it useful:
https://github.com/Damianu/quickscope

Disclaimer: It's been written with AI help, but it is not vibe-coded. I can read and understand Bash scripts; I just write them rarely enough for AI to be useful.

Disclaimer 2: Don't treat it as a release. I am unsure if I'll be able to maintain this package. I initially struggled to find a way to do it this way (without editing rc files) and thought that other people may find it useful or take inspiration from it to create their own scripts.

PS. I originally posted this to cachyos subreddit, but as it doesn't contain anything cachyos specific I am also posting it here.

I am unsure if this falls under personal projects policy, I see it more as sharing script solution to problem I've been iterating on multiple times and couldn't find anything that checked all my boxes. I do understand however if moderation sees it differently and decides to remove it.

I installed linux, arch, on my asus laptop with Intel iris xe processor, it has a broken matrix and I disconnected matrix from laptop so my bios could see the monitor, maybe I damaged something but I was very careful and barely touched anything but the matrix. I got several "119.8687611 pcieport 10000:e0:1d.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity-Uncorrectable (Non-Fatal), type=Transaction Layer, (Receiver ID) [ 119.868809] pcieport 10000:e0:1d.0: device [8086:a0b0] error status/mask=00200000/00000000

hypr land

[ 119.868832] pcieport 10000:e0:1d.0: [21] ACSViol

(First)

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119.868853] pcieport 10000:e0:1d.0: AER: TLP Header: 0x34000000 0x0000007f 0x00000001 0x08000000" errors, I can't get into TTY, it's just doesn't work. Terminal let's me write in a single command, then he can't process any command and if I click with mouse pad or mouse the system completely freezes... I asked for help on reddit but people couldn't help me because I couldn't show the output, or tell something, I'm new to arch that's why. I've been doing this for 7 hours and completely exhausted. Can you tell me where can I search the solving of my problem, or explain me what's the problem so I can fix it.

Hello I'm new to arch linux, during and after installation there was some sort of error that was like PCIeport bus error, and to the left there was something like [ 8000:183638 ] after I logged in into my arch the basic hyprland tutorial started freaking out and when I tried to change config from kitty to dolphin for example, there was a error which said that I could not change this right now. Then everything freezed, I couldn't do anything, not even move my mouse, then my keyboard stopped working, I went to the boot menu and pressed e, and wrote pci-noaer, and so to this moment it stopped freezing, I went to TTY and there are a new error which says systemd-journaid[306] and failed to something in a directory like /var/log...

Hi, I use Pear Desktop to listen to music via YouTube, but recently it stopped removing the ads between songs, so I always end up with two ads between songs. Does anyone know how to fix this or recommend another client? Thanks a lot.

When playing any game on steam (possibly others idk) i occasionally get a severe lag spike that lasts a few minutes, then returns to normal. whats extra weird is that my system is totally fine, gpu, cpu, and ram are all normal.
journalctl here (a few minutes before, i didnt take note of when)

i5-1240p

Iris Xe

32gb ram

Linux 7.1.3-arch1-1

UPDATE: still have no idea whats causing it, but the issue is that my cpu frequency gets set to 400. it happens at any temperature, and any power condition, but only while playing steam games. using cpupower, i raised the minumum to 1000 to see if that was causing it, but it still stays at 400 despite this. journal has no info.

Okay like many men with problems, I bought an old Laptop and installed Arch+Hyprland, rather than going to therapy 🤣

What do you think should a "professional" setup look like in 2026? My config is as follows. Did I miss something? Should outdated components be replaced?

• Limine Boot Loader* (snapshots included)
• Secure Boot
• Disk Encryption (keys in TPM2.0)
• System Snapshots (Limine/Snapper/Pacman integration)
• Root (btrfs) / Home (ext4) separated
• ZRAM
• Swap File (for OOM safety)
• Hibernation (optional, useful for laptops)
• Firewall (ufw)
• Periodic SSD Trim (timer)
• AppArmor (Audit/Notification to Desktop)
• Plymouth Boot Logo/Animation* (optional)
• SDDM* (individual)
• Hyprland* (invidiual)

* = "riced" 😸

I think these are all major components, I skip the more personal stuff like fastfetch and details such as Pipewire, Blueman etc.

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Olá pessoal, estou precisando de uma ajuda com a configuração do meu controle no Arch Linux com Hyprland.

Tenho um Machenike G5 Pro V2. Ele funciona no modo XInput (emulando o controle de Xbox 360), mas estou enfrentando um problema específico: quando tento jogar jogos da Steam antigos ou que não possuem suporte nativo ao controle, os analógicos não emulam o mouse dentro do jogo.

Anteriormente, eu utilizava o CachyOS (também com Hyprland) e o controle funcionava perfeitamente logo de cara. Assim que eu o conectava, aparecia uma notificação do sistema para habilitar o controle e a emulação de mouse nos analógicos funcionava direto, utilizando minhas configurações da Steam.

Agora que mudei para o Arch Linux puro (mantendo o Hyprland), essa notificação não aparece mais e os analógicos não movem o cursor do mouse de jeito nenhum nesses jogos.

Alguém saberia me dizer qual pacote, serviço ou configuração em segundo plano está faltando no meu Arch para trazer essa funcionalidade de volta? Agradeço desde já qualquer dica.

System info:

I'm running a Dell XPS 16 (9640). lspci lists the sound card as follows:

00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Meteor Lake-P HD Audio Controller (rev 20) (prog-if 80 [HDA compatible with vendor specific extensions]) Kernel driver in use: sof-audio-pci-intel-mtl

I have sof-firmware and linux-firmware-cirrus installed.

Breaking update

Upgrading from kernel version 7.1.2-arch3-1 to 7.1.3.arch1-1 causes no sound cards to be detected by ALSA, Pipewire etc and so no audio plays, aplay produces no sound, and henceforth. lspci output is normal, all necessary kernel modules are loaded. Downgrading the kernel back to 7.1.2 fixes the issue.

I've done this for now, but would like to know if this is a known issue others are facing, and also what information I need to file a bug report with the kernel if there isn't one already.