TL;DR: If you're getting random freezes, memtest your EXPO profile and try disabling global C-state control in your BIOS.

Relevant Specs: Ryzen 7 9800X3D, ROG Strix B650E-I, RTX 5070 Ti, Corsair SF750, 32GB (2x16GB) G.Skill Flare X5 DDR5-6000 CL30

I've been running CachyOS for a few months now and overall it's been great. I like to tinker, so it's a good fit. I mainly use it as a daily driver for YouTube, web browsing, and quite a bit of gaming (007 First Light has been smooth as butter).

Recently I moved and had to store my PC for a few weeks. The CMOS battery must have drained or something, because my BIOS settings got reset. No biggie, I just re-enabled EXPO and booted back up.

Then I started getting random hard freezes in a couple of scenarios. First, it would lock up during regular browsing, and the only fix was a hard reset. Later, I'd see freezes on the lock screen, or the PC wouldn't wake from sleep. Troubleshooting revealed my memory was failing MemTest. My heart sank. The RAM kit is still under warranty, but I was super frustrated.

I tested a bunch of configurations (EXPO off, individual sticks in different slots, BIOS update) and figured out the profile was the problem. There were two, and I'd picked an unstable one by accident. That fixed the freezes during regular use, but not the lock screen ones.

So I kept digging until I remembered another BIOS setting. Back on Windows I'd disabled C-states, hoping it would help with coil whine (turns out the whine was coming from the GPU). The BIOS reset put that setting back to default, so I disabled C-states again to test, and voila! No more freezes on the lock screen for the past couple of weeks, and the PC sleeps as expected.

Definitely a rollercoaster bouncing between troubleshooting and spiraling over potentially needing to RMA the RAM. Figured if other people were experiencing similar issues I would just share what worked for me.

Como dice el título tengo problemas para jugar RDR2 en Cachy os , ( solo modo hitoria ) tengo cuielgues aleatorios ,estos pueden pasan en 1 hora o en minutos .

Alguine juega dicho juego y presenta o presento dicho problema , de ser asi o si lo solucionó me podria ayudar ?

Im currently on a 5050 laptop with a ryzen 7 250, and im on cachyos-sources 7.2.9 kernel. I heard some people talk about how the 7.3 version is still not in great shape, just wondering if i should wait until they release a better version.

Anyone know how to map this button to bring up steam home in cachy handheld edition? Spent 2 hours last night trying with input plumber and terminal commands wont do anything, tried rebinding it to keyboard as well, as far as I know in input plumber this is mapped as quick access menu 2 but I’ve tried the other quick access source also no luck, also tried F14,15 and 16 won’t do anything. Device name is MSI CLAW EX 8ai+ with the g3e chip

I have been using my mouse side button for push to talk since installing cachyos about 3 months back. Since updating to KDE plasma 6.8, I find the PTT deactivates whenever I push another key.

So it is bound to the mouse side button. This button is set to mimic the scroll lock button on the keyboard through a profile. I cannot change this profile without plugging into a Windows system and installing Icue software.

I push and hold the button in, and discord will transmit as it should. It does this even if the window is not selected. So I can be playing in game window and the key bind works. But as soon as I use another key, it deactivates the button. I then have to release any key I have pressed on the keyboard, and then release and repress the side button.

Any help with this is appreciated.

EDIT: I even went so far as reformatting this morning. This still has not fixed it.

I'm not sure what to say here, but my system all of a sudden broke while I was playing Subnautica 2. First the lockscreen broke, then I tried restarting KDE and that failed. I tried restarting my computer but it'd lock up as soon as plasmalogin loaded, none of the TTY's would work, so I decided to chroot from my live USB to run a pacman update. I got this when I tried running it: fish: Job 1, 'pacman -Syu' terminated by signal SIGBUS (Misaligned address error). I am kinda at a loss of what to do.

Linux Kernel 7.2.11-1-cachyos
KDE Plasma 6.7.11(?)
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
32GB DDR4 2666
RTX 4070 TI
BTRFS filesystem with 20 GiB unallocated space 37GiB Free (from df -h)
Pretty new to CachyOS (and Arch)

If you need more info, I will gladly share it, I just didn't know exactly what I needed to share.

Edit: Forgot to mention flatpak does the same thing, so it seems whatever happened is affecting a lot of utilities on my system.

So I am currently using Nobara with my root one drive and my home directory on a different drive. I have been considering jumping over to Cachy and wanted to know if there is anything I should take into consideration, be aware of, or do/not do before/after installing Cachy on my root drive overtop of Nobara?

I know I’ll have to reinstall my programs, but from what I think I know is the program files will be readable and most settings will set up appropriately.

My computer use is mostly gaming based. So the programs I have running are StreamContoller for my Elgato Stream Deck+, Steam, Brave, and really that’s about it.

I have never used the AUR. And my Linux knowledge and command line knowledge is mostly Fedora/RedHat based from my professional background. But love learning new things.

My CPU is v4 capable and I don't understand why there is no mesa in cachyos-v4 repository (and there is in cachyos-v3 ??), so my mesa driver is updating from cachyos repository, but the version there is stucked at 26.2.4 while all other repos has already 26.2.5. In Arch extra repo there is already 26.2.5 so why it doesn't update from there? Can anyone explain how does it work?

Wanted to share my take (Originally envisioned by u/Dear-Level-9404) on the powered by Cachyos logo. Thanks for the inspo to OP!

Link to the PNG and SVG files https://we.tl/t-p4ji5A0e2yd8YjR3

Hello. I’ve never used Linux, but I’m becoming increasingly tempted to try it because Windows keeps throwing random errors at me—most likely due to my aging processor. My setup includes an i5-6600K, a GTX 1080, and 16 GB of RAM; will I run into any issues with CachyOS? I ask because I’ve heard that NVIDIA hardware can be problematic on Linux, and, well, my CPU only has 4 cores. Also, is there a truly noticeable improvement when switching from Windows to Linux? For context, I primarily use this computer for gaming.

Hello! i just installed cachy os but when i downloaded a game and ran it, it only appears to be using the igpu of my laptop i don't know what to configure to fix the problem, gpu booster wasn't even on cachy hello. I really want to play cs2 but it doesn't feel as smooth so i hope there i a solution!

Laptop specs

rtx4050 45watt i7 13620h 16gb ram 516gb ssd

Hey guys, has anyone else had this problem with GTA V Legacy on Linux?

I'm running CachyOS with a GTX 1650 ryzen 2400g, and after playing for a while, the game starts having trouble loading textures. When I'm driving around, buildings and other objects stop loading properly, and eventually the game just freezes.

I've seen a few people report similar issues on CachyOS, so I'm wondering if this is a Linux/Proton issue or something else.

I've tried lowering the graphics settings, but it doesn't seem to fix the problem.

Has anyone managed to find a proper fix for this? I'd rather not switch distros just to play GTA V.

Thanks!

Yeah so just as the title says, and I don't want to love it. But I'm, loving it.
So as I said I do Game Development primarily on Windows in Godot, Unity, and Unreal. But recently, I though I needed a break from Windows. And given the OS was already deteriorating from 3+ years of projects and work. I thought I'd just see what was I was missing and download Arch Linux.

This post is just to get feedback from the community on if I made a good choice (posting this in a CachyOS subreddit probably would sway towards good ). But also I came to ask a few questions on software and programs I should get to make Hyprland / Waybar look good, and on what I can / can't download on linux ( like adobe software )

Tô usando a Stem toda as vezes, quando eu abri o jogo reiniciar os sherds sombreamento e também as configurações do jogo reset, todas as vezes

If Steam detects your controller and Steam Input is enabled, but games ignore it, another udev rule (like dotool) might be breaking /dev/uinput permissions.

Check /dev/uinput permissions

Steam reads your physical controller via /dev/hidraw*, but Steam Input needs read+write (rw-) access to /dev/uinput to create the virtual gamepad for games. Check it with:

getfacl /dev/uinput

If you see #effective:-w- next to your user (mask::-w-), you only have write access, not read+write, so Steam fails with: Couldn't initialize virtual gamepad: Couldn't open /dev/uinput for writing

Find other udev rules

See which rules touch uinput:

grep -rn "uinput" /etc/udev/rules.d/ /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/ 2>/dev/null

In my case, dotool (installed as an optional dependency for the Smile emoji picker) added /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/80-dotool.rules with MODE="0620". Because 80- runs after Steam's 60-steam-input.rules, it overwrote the ACL mask and stripped read access.

The Fix

Either remove dotool, or override the rule with MODE="0660" so both work:

echo 'KERNEL=="uinput", SUBSYSTEM=="misc", GROUP="input", MODE="0660", TAG+="uaccess", OPTIONS+="static_node=uinput"' | sudo tee /etc/udev/rules.d/80-dotool.rules sudo udevadm control --reload-rules && sudo udevadm trigger --settle /sys/devices/virtual/misc/uinput

Run getfacl /dev/uinput again to confirm mask::rw- is restored, then restart your game!

I was loosing my mind and just wanted to post this so it appears on Google in case anyone has the same problem

My screen is OS as if it's bigger than my visual OS. As I move my mouse, it move the screen around as if extending my OS is bigger than my visual screen. When I have my mouse at the middle of the screen, I can't seen any sides. As I move my mouse up, right, down, left, it shows everything.

What is this and how do I disable it?

Is there anyway that I would be able to install cachyos onto my Samsung tablet? I’m very curious on how it would work and I feel like it would be a fun challenge.

I installed waydroid Yesterday but IT Always Shows No Internet Connection Event though im connected with my

TP-Link Archer TX20U Nano WLAN Stick

Guys, please help a newbie! Apologies for the photo, dunno how to screenshot in grub. Also chatgpt is fkn useless lol. This happened after updating my bios!

Recently had a weird issue where I shutdown my PC and my monitors turn off yet the fans and lights inside my PC still run. Was just wondering if this is a common issue? Had no problems turning it back on again after the fact but have been having to use the button to turn it off whenever this decides to happen.

Hi there I'm the guy who posted the powered by CachyOs stickers
There you have the files

Feel free to use it, print, share with your friends and community
I suggest you to download the SVG format

Thx for your comments

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zeVejFlUXGdeBlv_i3Y4t4cawL_S4TXW Here is a file where you can find the SVG and PNG if you don't want to use canva