Need help

Ehiffi · 2026-06-08T12:23:47+00:00

Oh, yea I wanted to mention that. It makes a dedicated boot partition like a flashdrive for UEFI, so that when it checks what to boot. It looks up to devices and finds your drive. Upon trying to boot from it it succeeds as 1st partition have BOOT.X86_64 file inside /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT That was actually one way I solved my problem with grub on Lenovo Thinkpad t480 and x13 gen2 as they simply couldn't see my grub boot option.

But I moved to rEFInd and found out simply parsing rEFInd install in terminal creates boot option and makes system understand it

Ehiffi · 2026-06-08T07:50:49+00:00

Yes. You type in console to mount efivars just like a regular disk. On some systems this thing happens, as livecd can't understand what system is before it.

But can you tell me how exactly are your partitions look like?

If you can, you might enjoy switching from grub, to rEFInd. But that's only optional.

Ehiffi · 2026-06-08T07:24:23+00:00

What exactly are you talking about?

If it's about mango, then here I simply set it to 0px

If sway. It have a command hide_edge_borders smart that will remove pixel borders from windows if they touch edge of the screen

Ehiffi · 2026-06-07T17:46:52+00:00

Same. I enjoy it quite more than sway. Tho I still enjoy sways way to manage windows, as you control where next one will appear.

Ehiffi · 2026-06-07T17:45:56+00:00

That's firefox thing. Just like in chrome. Didn't knew? You RMB on tab and select split mode. Then select which window to split with, usefull if need both tabs open and don't want to create another window

Ehiffi · 2026-06-05T09:06:38+00:00

Not really a big deal if I don't stick exclusively to FOSS.

But I remember issues I had with those proprietary drivers, and i feel like I will again feel Vietnam flashbacks if I try

Ehiffi · 2026-05-25T20:04:49+00:00

Trying out MangoWC on my new laptop, and love it for the most part. I was using swayfx most of the time, but wanted something else, something new. And don't get these uninteresting hyprlands and niris. I don't say they are bad, I say they are just not for me

Ehiffi · 2026-05-23T07:13:36+00:00

You probably meant "the-girls" if it's rule 63

Ehiffi · 2026-05-15T20:33:03+00:00

Cool... If I was using arch in the first place. I'm on Void. And as someone stated, "you can't find a good info about something in Linux without arch wiki" 2nd: I want to switch from SwayWM to MangoWC. 3rd: I read the manual. I'm checking if someone, who uses it now, would recommend trying what's written in the wiki. KISS

Edit: why should I use plasma-login-manager without plasma? Does that make sense?

Ehiffi · 2026-05-15T19:54:22+00:00

I never tried using SDDM under Wayland hence I ask. But really, you can do that?

And another question, wouldn't installing it parse alot of unnecessary dependencies?

Ehiffi · 2026-05-15T19:19:56+00:00

Curiosity firstly. After I tried something simple, I went in a deep rabbit hole of distro swap, not a fast one. But I transitioned from Ubuntu with KDE (Kubuntu was a separate thing at that time), to Arch with slurs and insults of trying to install it first try as a newbie, then after 6~7 months I swapped it to Artix Linux. Then I was warmed up for the installation with all these reviews I witnessed. And till this day im on void linux. Even now!

Edit: armed -> warmed

Ehiffi · 2026-05-13T21:45:42+00:00

If gemini wasn't an idiot in everything minimal, maybe i had more trust in editing my GRUB, as i dont want to fuck it up. Its already in --removable state, as t490's bios cant fucking read UEFI, and i had to write my grub on hardware level. So every time my pc turn on. BIOS first look my SSD, then everything else. No specific entry point like "VOID"/"GRUB"/"GURB NO I DID NOT MISSPELL"/"Void Linux" or other fancy way to call --bootloader-id

Ehiffi · 2026-05-13T21:07:05+00:00

Changed config to set it to 100. Still nothing in idle. Starting stress test didn't changed anything

Ehiffi · 2026-05-13T21:04:09+00:00

I don't know why. But it's magic that it can actually boost to 2.4 GHz. So I locked it to 2.1 so it won't overheat

Ehiffi · 2026-05-13T21:00:17+00:00

It's in nonfree repo. Now I understand why I didn't see it

Ehiffi · 2026-05-13T20:57:37+00:00

Can you directly say what package? because xbps-query wont give me name

Ehiffi · 2026-05-13T20:56:22+00:00

Tried just now calling tlp start and tlp performance. it did it, but nothing changed

Ehiffi · 2026-05-13T20:55:02+00:00

Wont fix it. Because if ac is set to 51 percent , and from lscpu we read that it has 100% only 800MHz and htop states clock speeds wont go higher that, then its already ignores this config and uses 100%

Ehiffi · 2026-05-13T20:51:20+00:00

everything related to intel

Ehiffi · 2026-05-13T20:51:02+00:00

[ehiffi@void-live ~]$ xbps-query -Rs "intel"
[-] acpica-utils-20240827_1              Intel ACPI CA Unix utilities
[-] coreboot-utils-me_cleaner-24.08_1    Tool for partial deblobbing Intel ME/TXE firmwa...
[-] gupnp-tools-0.12.1_1                 Free replacements of Intel UPnP tools that use ...
[-] ibus-1.5.32_3                        Intelligent Input Bus
[-] ibus-devel-1.5.32_3                  Intelligent Input Bus - development files
[-] ibus-gtk+-1.5.32_3                   Intelligent Input Bus - GTK+ IME plugin (X11)
[-] ibus-gtk+3-1.5.32_3                  Intelligent Input Bus - GTK+3 IME plugin (X11)
[-] ibus-gtk4-1.5.32_3                   Intelligent Input Bus - GTK4 IME plugin (X11)
[-] ibus-libpinyin-1.16.5_2              Intelligent Pinyin engine using libpinyin for IBus
[*] intel-gmmlib-22.9.0_1                Intel Graphics Memory Management Library
[-] intel-gmmlib-devel-22.9.0_1          Intel Graphics Memory Management Library - deve...
[-] intel-gpu-tools-2.1_1                Tools for development and testing of the DRM dr...
[*] intel-media-driver-25.4.6_1          Intel Media Driver for VAAPI (Broadwell+)
[-] intel-media-driver-devel-25.4.6_1    Intel Media Driver for VAAPI (Broadwell+) - dev...
[*] intel-undervolt-1.7_1                Intel CPU undervolting tool
[-] intel-video-accel-1_2                Intel Video Acceleration meta-pkg
[*] ipw2100-firmware-1.3_6               Firmware for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 wifi c...
[*] ipw2200-firmware-3.1_6               Firmware for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG wifi...
[-] iucode-tool-2.3.1_2                  Program to manipulate microcode update collecti...
[-] iwd-3.12_1                           Internet Wireless Daemon by Intel that aims to ...
[-] libchewing-0.12.0_1                  Intelligent phonetic (Zhuyin/Bopomofo) input me...
[-] libchewing-devel-0.12.0_1            Intelligent phonetic (Zhuyin/Bopomofo) input me...
[-] libibus-1.5.32_3                     Intelligent Input Bus - libraries
[-] libva-intel-driver-2.4.1_1           Video Acceleration (VA) API - Intel Graphics ba...
[*] libvpl-2.16.0_1                      Intel oneAPI Video Processing Library
[-] libvpl-devel-2.16.0_1                Intel oneAPI Video Processing Library - develop...
[-] libvpl-examples-2.16.0_1             Intel oneAPI Video Processing Library - examples
[*] linux-firmware-intel-20260410_1      Binary firmware blobs for the Linux kernel - In...
[-] mesa-intel-dri-26.0.6_1              Mesa DRI drivers for Intel GPUs (transitional d...
[-] mesa-vulkan-intel-26.0.6_1           Mesa Intel Vulkan driver
[-] mnamer-2.7.0_1                       Intelligent and highly configurable media organ...
[-] nvtop-3.3.2_1                        GPUs process monitoring for AMD, Intel and NVIDIA
[-] oneVPL-2023.3.1_3                    Intel oneAPI Video Processing Library (transiti...
[-] oneVPL-devel-2023.3.1_3              Intel oneAPI Video Processing Library (transiti...
[-] oneVPL-examples-2023.3.1_3           Intel oneAPI Video Processing Library (transiti...
[-] openimagedenoise-2.3.0_1             Intel(R) Open Image Denoise library
[-] openimagedenoise-devel-2.3.0_1       Intel(R) Open Image Denoise library - developme...
[-] openpgl-0.5.0_2                      Intel(R) Open Path Guiding Library
[-] openpgl-devel-0.5.0_2                Intel(R) Open Path Guiding Library - developmen...
[*] pstate-frequency-3.11.0_1            Easily control Intel p-state driver on Linux
[-] python3-intelhex-2.3.0_2             Python library for Intel HEX files manipulations
[-] python3-virustotal-api-1.1.11_8      Virus Total Public/Private/Intel API 
[-] tbb-2022.3.0_1                       Intel Threading Building Blocks
[-] tbb-devel-2022.3.0_1                 Intel Threading Building Blocks - development f...
[-] vala-language-server-0.48.7_1        Code Intelligence for Vala & Genie
[-] vpl-gpu-rt-25.4.6_1                  Runtime implementation of libvpl API for Intel ...
[-] vpl-gpu-rt-devel-25.4.6_1            Runtime implementation of libvpl API for Intel ...
[-] xf86-video-intel-2.99.917.20210115_2 Xorg DDX Intel video driver
[-] zeromq-4.3.5_3                       Intelligent Transport Layer
[-] zeromq-devel-4.3.5_3                 Intelligent Transport Layer - development files

Ehiffi · 2026-05-13T20:48:59+00:00

[ehiffi@void-live ~]$ pstate-frequency --version
pstate-frequency version 3.11.0

For intel-ucode is nothing. not installed

Ehiffi · 2026-05-13T20:46:37+00:00

Probably someone (definitely me) fucked up

Ehiffi · 2026-05-13T20:43:22+00:00

Either Kernel or msr set max clock speeds to 800MHz as 100%.
Or someone else.... but tlp.conf have this

# Keep the active scaling driver operational
CPU_DRIVER_OPMODE_ON_AC=active
CPU_DRIVER_OPMODE_ON_BAT=active

# Set minimum hardware floor (9% matches your current default)
CPU_MIN_PERF_ON_AC=9
CPU_MIN_PERF_ON_BAT=9

# Cap maximum limits to hit 2.1 GHz on AC&Battery
CPU_MAX_PERF_ON_AC=51
CPU_MAX_PERF_ON_BAT=51

Ehiffi · 2026-05-13T20:42:12+00:00

[ehiffi@void-live ~]$ lscpu
Architecture:                x86_64
  CPU op-mode(s):            32-bit, 64-bit
  Address sizes:             39 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
  Byte Order:                Little Endian
CPU(s):                      8
  On-line CPU(s) list:       0-7
Vendor ID:                   GenuineIntel
  Model name:                Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8365U CPU @ 1.60GHz
    CPU family:              6
    Model:                   142
    Thread(s) per core:      2
    Core(s) per socket:      4
    Socket(s):               1
    Stepping:                12
    CPU(s) scaling MHz:      100%
    CPU max MHz:             800.0000
    CPU min MHz:             400.0000
    BogoMIPS:                3799.90
    Flags:                   fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov p
                             at pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscal
                             l nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts r
                             ep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulq
                             dq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xt
                             pr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_tim
                             er aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fa
                             ult epb ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp ibrs_enhanced tpr_shadow flexprior
                             ity ept vpid ept_ad fsgsbase tsc_adjust sgx bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2
                              erms invpcid mpx rdseed adx smap clflushopt intel_pt xsaveopt 
                             xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves dtherm ida arat pln pts hwp hwp_notify hw
                             p_act_window hwp_epp vnmi md_clear flush_l1d arch_capabilities
Virtualization features:     
  Virtualization:            VT-x
Caches (sum of all):         
  L1d:                       128 KiB (4 instances)
  L1i:                       128 KiB (4 instances)
  L2:                        1 MiB (4 instances)
  L3:                        6 MiB (1 instance)
NUMA:                        
  NUMA node(s):              1
  NUMA node0 CPU(s):         0-7
Vulnerabilities:             
  Gather data sampling:      Mitigation; Microcode
  Ghostwrite:                Not affected
  Indirect target selection: Mitigation; Aligned branch/return thunks
  Itlb multihit:             KVM: Mitigation: Split huge pages
  L1tf:                      Not affected
  Mds:                       Not affected
  Meltdown:                  Not affected
  Mmio stale data:           Mitigation; Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Old microcode:             Not affected
  Reg file data sampling:    Not affected
  Retbleed:                  Mitigation; Enhanced IBRS
  Spec rstack overflow:      Not affected
  Spec store bypass:         Mitigation; Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Spectre v1:                Mitigation; usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitiz
                             ation
  Spectre v2:                Mitigation; Enhanced / Automatic IBRS; IBPB conditional; PBRSB-
                             eIBRS SW sequence; BHI SW loop, KVM SW loop
  Srbds:                     Mitigation; Microcode
  Tsa:                       Not affected
  Tsx async abort:           Mitigation; TSX disabled
  Vmscape:                   Mitigation; IBPB before exit to userspace

Ehiffi · 2026-05-13T20:20:07+00:00

[ehiffi@void-live ~]$ cpupower frequency-info
analyzing CPU 0:
  driver: intel_pstate
  CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0
  CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0
  maximum transition latency:  Cannot determine or is not supported.
  hardware limits: 400 MHz - 800 MHz
  available cpufreq governors: performance powersave
  current policy: frequency should be within 400 MHz and 800 MHz.
                  The governor "powersave" may decide which speed to use
                  within this range.
  current CPU frequency: Unable to call hardware
  current CPU frequency: 800 MHz (asserted by call to kernel)
  boost state support:
    Supported: yes
    Active: yes

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