And they have a GUI/appimage you can use:
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This is nice, thanks. But it doesn’t do much if you don’t set the DRI_PRIME variable for the process, right? The bash script definitely doesn’t list any application, even though my GPU is reporting “active”.
Also, I forgot to update my status over here. I got it working on Hyprland, too, by deactivating all exec-once scripts. It seems like every electron app as well as intellij IDEs keep the dGPU awake for some reason. I’ll try to make those processes run on the iGPU, so that my battery lasts longer (8 hours instead of 4, lol).
Just a heads up, you need to install qmk-hid if you want to configure the keyboard. I noticed my Linux keyboard Fn buttons (volume up/down/mute) did not work and went to keyboard.frame.work to fix it only to find I didn’t have the qmk.rules added to my system as needed.
Having a couple problems on Arch at the moment.
-Toggling airplane mode (F10 button) breaks bluetooth. bluetoothd will start using 100% of a cpu core and fans ramp up.
-sometimes the KDE lockscreen will fail to unlock using fingerprint, and then it is stuck with a non-functioning “unlock” button. I have to switch to another terminal and type “loginctl unlock-sessions” to unlock.
Anyone else have these issues as well or know of a workaround?
EDIT: didn’t mean to reply to you, Jerrod, sorry.
Get an ax210 for problem 1 XD
I have experienced the KDE lock screen bug several times. I have not thoroughly investigated the problem but I think there is an issue with the fprintd PAM module is improperly triggering the faillock PAM module with invalid fingerprint reads and causing KDE screen locker to get stuck in a “account locked out” state.
Ich ran into the bluetooth issue a couple of times in the first few days.
Found out that turning off bluetooth only bugs out while devices are still connected (MX Master 3S and/or wireless ear buds in my case),
I turn off the mouse and ear buds before disabling bluetooth ever since and didn’t have the problem anymore
Good point, and this is true for me as well. Seems to work fine as long as nothing is connected. In my case it was a set of bluetooth speakers connected and I accidentally hit the F10 key and noticed it all bugged out afterward.
Tested in Fedora as well. While it doesn’t totally bug out like it does on Arch, it doesn’t work right either. In the case of my speakers, they became all choppy sounding with any sound that was played.
I think it’s something to do with the fprintd service. When this happens to me, I notice the fprintd service has become inactive/stopped. Although, forcing lock screen (penguin+L), causes fprintd to start automatically. So maybe some trigger is broken when the laptop wakes from sleep.
I’m on Arch + Plasma 6 and have not had this issue.
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Ran into this while using rfkill toggle bluetooth manually, with or without devices connected.
Ended up assigning the following to a hotkey to gracefully toggle bluetooth:
bash -c "bluetoothctl show|grep -F 'PowerState: on' && bluetoothctl power off || bluetoothctl power on"
(requires bluez-utils for the bluetoothctl command)
I’m running Garuda Linux (Arch base) with Linux-Zen v6.8.7. The moment I updated the kernel is the moment I somehow lost bluetooth connection. – has anyone else had this issue in anty form?
EDIT:
bluetooth list doesn’t show anything, and lspci provides the following
lspci output
lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14e8
00:00.2 IOMMU: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14e9
00:01.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14ea
00:01.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14ed
00:02.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14ea
00:02.2 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14ee
00:02.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14ee
00:03.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14ea
00:03.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 19h USB4/Thunderbolt PCIe tunnel
00:04.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14ea
00:04.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 19h USB4/Thunderbolt PCIe tunnel
00:08.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14ea
00:08.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14eb
00:08.2 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14eb
00:08.3 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14eb
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SMBus Controller (rev 71)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH LPC Bridge (rev 51)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14f0
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14f1
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14f2
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14f3
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14f4
00:18.5 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14f5
00:18.6 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14f6
00:18.7 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14f7
01:00.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 10 XL Upstream Port of PCI Express Switch (rev 12)
02:00.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 10 XL Downstream Port of PCI Express Switch (rev 12)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 33 [Radeon RX 7700S/7600/7600S/7600M XT/PRO W7600] (rev c1)
03:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 31 HDMI/DP Audio
04:00.0 Network controller: MEDIATEK Corp. MT7922 802.11ax PCI Express Wireless Network Adapter
05:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: INNOGRIT Corporation NVMe SSD Controller IG5236 (rev 01)
c4:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Phoenix1 (rev c2)
c4:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Rembrandt Radeon High Definition Audio Controller
c4:00.2 Encryption controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 19h (Model 74h) CCP/PSP 3.0 Device
c4:00.3 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 15b9
c4:00.4 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 15ba
c4:00.5 Multimedia controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor (rev 63)
c4:00.6 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h/19h HD Audio Controller
c5:00.0 Non-Essential Instrumentation [1300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14ec
c5:00.1 Signal processing controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] AMD IPU Device
c6:00.0 Non-Essential Instrumentation [1300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14ec
c6:00.3 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 15c0
c6:00.4 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 15c1
c6:00.5 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Pink Sardine USB4/Thunderbolt NHI controller #1
c6:00.6 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Pink Sardine USB4/Thunderbolt NHI controller #2
I just got my Batch 10 system and loaded up Arch onto it with KDE-Plasma and it’s been working fantastically. I’ve found a few resources scattered around to help with some of the minor tweaks, such as setting up udev Rules for the RGB Keyboard and Macro Pad – borrowed from the Gentoo Wiki; this enabled https://keyboard.frame.work to work through Chrome
I also installed Steam with Proton and was playing around with one of my favorite games, but noticed that according to nvtop, my dedicated GPU (dGPU) wasn’t active, only the internal GPU (iGPU) – I’m using the built-in display with 0 external monitors attached. There’s always 0 activity on the dGPU, even without playing something on Steam.
Is this expected? Is there something I missed in the configuration to enable the dGPU? The system definitely detects it via lspci
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 33 [Radeon RX 7700S/7600/7600S/7600M XT/PRO W7600] (rev c1)
I believe you need to manually launch the game under the dGPU if you haven’t already.
On Pop_OS there’s a popup for this, Windows has a menu.
If someone could pitch in on how to do this in Plasma that would be great 
If you want to skip this you may also set the dGPU as primary via something like allwaysegpu, I would not reccomend this though as it’ll kill battery.
Ah! I finally found something that speaks to this exactly: GitHub - FrameworkComputer/dri_prime1-detection: A simple application to verify if desired applications are running with discrete graphics
I haven’t tried this yet, but will give it a shot.
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Didn’t find anything about this from a quick search, but booted Arch live USB and am getting “con4: failed to register partner alt modes (-5)” every 2 seconds or so printed to the main TTY making it unusable. Gonna quickly try installing a USB-C expansion card in empty slot to see if that fixes it. EDIT nope it takes a bit longer now weirdly
EDIT2 found this thread, gonna add my 2c there [RESPONDED] Arch Linux - Issues with HDMI extension port - #10 by Paolo_De_Donato
“dmesg -n 1” should stop that from happening.
By the way. In Linux, when that happens it isn’t printing stuff as if you are typing or anything. The TTY is completely usable still. Just type what you need and it will still go in correctly (the log messages are not part of your commands).
I ended up switching to Fedora thanks to a weird issue with KDE on Arch that just doesn’t exist on Fedora. Thanks anyways
Hi, my touchpad is not working. I installed arch with KDE plasma, but now the touchpad does not respond, and in settings it says “Touchpad not found”.
It was working at one point, but not anymore. I’ve tried detaching/reattaching the hardware cable to no avail so it isn’t likely to be a hardware problem (keyboard works fine).
Any ideas?
Update: It started working randomly after rebooting again. Very confused. I’ll come back if it stops working again.