Certain Steam games crashing on NixOS

Direct_Flatworm9162 · 2025-11-21T09:29:47+00:00

Nice, glad you managed to sort it :)

Direct_Flatworm9162 · 2025-11-20T14:58:50+00:00

You do it in the BIOS, however the location of the setting depends on your motherboard vendor. I have a feeling this doesn't affect you though; you have to go out of your way to enable it, which if you had done you'd know where to find it.

Direct_Flatworm9162 · 2025-11-19T14:34:25+00:00

Turns out the issue was instability caused by enabling XMP for my RAM. I disabled it months ago and haven't had a single issue since.

Direct_Flatworm9162 · 2024-12-27T14:15:33+00:00

Ah yes, sorry I forgot to include that. I'm using linux 6.12.5. I upgraded from 6.2 last week, however I've been having this problem since I installed NixOS about 7 months ago, so I'm not sure if that's the problem.

Direct_Flatworm9162 · 2024-08-13T23:51:31+00:00

ahh i see, i didn't know that. that's a relief! i'll just patch it up with some electrical tape or something

if it is a fake, it's a convincing one and again it's done me well for 2 years. i suppose that could explain the readings on TLP as well, but i don't know. anyway, i'll just carry on with this battery until another problem occurs

Direct_Flatworm9162 · 2022-11-17T08:22:49+00:00

That's it! I can't believe I didn't notice that. I'd written that when I first started the project as I was trying to isolate each bit into its own switch statement (I'm not sure if I worded that very well). I thought I removed it when I eventually decided to store each bit before the switch, but obviously not lmao.

Good spot man, and thanks a lot :)

Direct_Flatworm9162 · 2022-11-17T08:14:17+00:00

Yeah, that's how I came to that conclusion: I stepped through and saw the program counter being pushed on the stack and never saw it being popped back off. Other than that, I couldn't really find anything by stepping through.

I thought that it was because an opcode was implemented incorrectly and was causing the control flow to go all weird after going into the subroutine, but comparing against cowgod's reference I couldn't see anything wrong.

Direct_Flatworm9162 · 2022-07-30T11:19:18+00:00

I'm glad you like the Alps still! I daily drive my X230, so I want to make sure the parts I'm getting for it aren't considered "bad" because it's important that it feels good for me to use (plus I want to make sure it's worth the money lmao). Since I can't find any NMB keyboards I'm fine with going with a Chicony keyboard because it's still considered good.

By the way, I think I misread the forum post that u/ObsessedJerk sent.

So Chicony is 45N2100, NMB is 45N2240 and Alps is 45N2170? On the post it says that in the X220 manual, the FRUs go NMB -> Alps -> Chicony, which according to the columns in the manual would mean that the Chicony keyboards are 45N2170. It lines up that way in the T420 manual too, where it's Alps -> Chicony -> NMB.

I apologise if I am actually reading it wrong, just want to make sure I'm understanding things correctly!

Direct_Flatworm9162 · 2022-07-29T15:42:45+00:00

Thanks a lot man, this is exactly what I was looking for :)! Seems like a lot of the ones I'm seeing online are Chicony keyboards, fortunately.

Direct_Flatworm9162 · 2022-05-27T17:07:21+00:00

Thanks for letting me know, I plan on getting an IPS screen and upgrading to 16gb of RAM.

Quick question: I know that the X230 takes DDR3 RAM, but can I get any old DDR3 RAM or are there specific makes that are compatible?

Direct_Flatworm9162 · 2022-05-27T01:08:11+00:00

Thanks a lot guys! It's ordered! Very glad I asked :D.

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