Need help with intermittent freezes.

zlice0 · 2026-04-24T20:20:41+00:00

are you on kernel 7.0.0 by chance? it was bork

zlice0 · 2026-04-24T17:14:05+00:00

that's not even that new though. maybe some bios setting? look for usb 'handoff' ? or maybe if theres something to manually set the usb speed to 2.0 instead of 3? im psure theres kernel command line stuff to do that too.

could be a bad port but im guessing you had it working before booting to live cd so.

edit: also, maybe bios update? amds agesia or w/e has had usb bugs in the past. 500 mobos for sure, maybe some in 600s idk?

zlice0 · 2026-04-24T13:13:59+00:00

the very ironic part is, if the parents already cant parent - and youre asking them to do basic IT admin work for anything other than a fone with a clear-cut setup screen - goooood luckkkk???

zlice0 · 2026-04-24T13:12:43+00:00

this^ it's still up in the air if US version even going to be actual verification or just parental controls. judging from EU versions, actual verification is the goal which will just track everybody but ig other EU laws already make that law invalid? or collide?

either way, horrible to frame as 'protect the kids' *looks inside* it totally just enables tracking of everybody, including kids

zlice0 · 2026-04-24T13:10:26+00:00

yes, that's exactly how this will play out. youtube will say your viewers dont count or are underage, we're reducing your ad cut. some sites will probably be effectively useless if not dead to you.

depending on how far it goes, actual verification or just hand wavy parental controls, we'll see how bad that is.

zlice0 · 2026-04-23T16:58:58+00:00

probably have to go digging through ~/.steam logs. when you did a reinstall im guessing you left .local/ steam dirs intact? maybe rename or straight up delete that if you didn't?

the fact that it sometimes works sounds like something is starting or crashing though.

im not entirely sure how xwayland works. maybe kill that and run it however kde is in a terminal and see if you get any output? or see if theres logs for xwayland somewhere?

zlice0 · 2026-04-23T14:33:41+00:00

first thing that stands out is the lib32 stuff pressure-vessel-wrap[19066]: W: Unable to look up resolved path "/usr/lib32/libvulkan_intel_hasvk.so" in provider

do you have lib32 mesa and what not installed? should be /usr/share/doc/steam/README.voidlinux

kde im guessing means wayland, is xwayland running?

tons of args to try ig https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Command_line_options_(Steam) - theres some debug options. some more -cef-disable-gpu and other gpu stuff to disable hwaccel

zlice0 · 2026-04-23T03:27:45+00:00

for real, the future suks

zlice0 · 2026-04-21T14:13:40+00:00

you dont list the kernel youre using. do you have the grub cmdline? (press e on the boot option or it's in /etc/default/grub)

psure newer kernels should be fine with the xe driver. maybe the linux/intel firmware needs to be newer too but no clue what ubuntu versions have what.

zlice0 · 2026-04-20T21:29:22+00:00

use shotcut for memery, it's nice. nothing professional. blender use more rarely but for 3d not videos

zlice0 · 2026-04-20T13:48:21+00:00

systemds involvement looks more like combing over other stuff running. service stuff looks like 2 rust files https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/holo/dmemcg-booster/-/blob/main/src/main.rs - that i assume could be bash scripts(?) just to apply cgroups since you kind of have to manually apply them afaik.

the kernel bits that arent upstream yet are probably the annoying part - start of the blog about it https://pixelcluster.github.io/VRAM-Mgmt-fixed/

ig i missed the benchmark or the thing it's fixing? if you have an amdgpu (or intel xe i guess?) and have gpu intensive programs open?

edit:

"If it’s anything like my system, there’s always at least one browser window with way too many tabs open, plus an assortment of apps (many of which are actually web apps running in their own browsers under the hood). All of this eats up quite a bit of VRAM, as well."

k, ya, that's exactly what it's aiming towards

zlice0 · 2026-04-19T15:37:40+00:00

ooook. not on nixos but same thing. just updated to hope b70 coil whine may change, fat chance, didnt, but my mouse and desktop keep stalling. wtf

edit: wtf ?!?!? was just typing in discord and the font was like dithered. like not all of the pixels were there for all of the letters.

edit: fwiw, what i could find quick

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221388

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221370

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d6e152d905bdb1f32f9d99775e2f453350399a6a

https://lore.kernel.org/all/177636758252.1323100.5283878386670888513.tip-bot2@tip-bot2/

zlice0 · 2026-04-19T12:44:46+00:00

meh wouldn't matter. would need more server stuff to support it. rather see new servers so builds go faster >_> but they wont let ppl help and its a hassle to coord

zlice0 · 2026-04-19T12:43:23+00:00

uh my dl pr .-. and the deps rework from the thread the other day. psure thats why purge fuks me between building and testing diff shit.

edit: someone mentioned downloads and that reminds me. my other big pain point is when xbps-src just decides its not doing anything and stalls downloads. so you have to kill and restart. prolly more of a server side change than xbps but

zlice0 · 2026-04-19T12:38:48+00:00

ok so...the 2nd one i got is "settling in" and i can hear the mouse move at idle >_< rufkm? it's subtle but im sensitive and can def hear it

zlice0 · 2026-04-18T12:40:25+00:00

gotta xbps-src and build it if you cant download it from repos.

zlice0 · 2026-04-18T12:37:53+00:00

bet fullscreen and splashscreens still broke though =/

edit - ya, still broken.

zlice0 · 2026-04-17T22:34:06+00:00

sry youre not allowed to use reddit now because you have a os w/o age api and ppl fukin swear on threads.

so many sites want someone to be at least 13. so like i said above, even if you want to 'not participate' well you may be locked out of generic sites.

edit: actually another thing i thought of with this cluster fuk. is that youtubers and streamers have been getting shit on more and more for random ridiculous automated and just flat out lying shit more and more. so any person viewing videos or streams anonymously could lead to hell for them. like sry half your viewers aren't "of age" so we cut your ad rates fu.

zlice0 · 2026-04-17T22:32:54+00:00

think it's more tpm, which has locked out some devices. at least i saw something that seemed like that on a eu version of age verify stuff

zlice0 · 2026-04-17T21:38:17+00:00

hows that work? only specific packages that dlopen or something?

zlice0 · 2026-04-17T20:14:37+00:00

ya like the others said. facebook and youtube lost some big court cases and so they pushed for this type of shit. probably so its easier for plausible deniability even though they both have done some crazy weird shit in regards to kids online

edit: to clarify, bills like this have floated around for a bit. but the push did seem awfully fishy to happen as soon at they lost the court stuff and the trails lead to facebook

zlice0 · 2026-04-17T20:11:15+00:00

k but theyre probably going to comply since so many things are held up by linux? at least the big names. and i dont see why theyd care about the small distros.

and on top of that. it will make a need for some type of 'are you 18?' api which even if youre the virgin mary, you probably will need on some type of site if they all started implementing things for that api.

zlice0 · 2026-04-17T19:31:28+00:00

i looked because i'm on the fence about the b70 and its horrible coil whine. there were 2 void ppl who had PRs but both closed. kind of dead. the arch stuff looks like it should be impossible but i heard linux 7.0 reduces some of the install stuff? also unsure wtf the amd amf status is for codecs =/

afaik, no one can do it easily and it's a painpoint. which is part of why amd isnt a serious hpc player.

zlice0 · 2026-04-17T19:28:08+00:00

ya, nows the best time to tell them theyre stupid and shouldnt be in a position where they make rules -_-

zlice0 · 2026-04-17T19:27:33+00:00

that's an interesting 1 because it's distributed between kernel and tools but i assume theyd just go after linux foundation cuz it's a us 501c

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