GCandy77

You prob find that windows is downloading its own drivers and overwriting the drivers that had been originally installed in the 1st place.

I truly hope you are correct .. It would be nice to see, but I dont think it will happen https://medium.com/@ieeemuj/linux-on-desktop-is-not-ready-and-may-never-be-by-aneemesh-vidyarthi-4451c217f5fa Personally, I am one of those users that is coming to the unfortunate conclusion that the windows OS is better than Linux. I know a lot of people will prob be annoyed by that statement, but the fact of the matter is that things just work in windows and dont "just work" in linux. (Before u take a mass dump on me for using windows - Please read the last paragraph because I also dont like OG MS product anymore either) Ive been a Linux user for about the last 5/6 years after making the jump when the W7 support ran out, Ive used 4 different distros over that time (Pop/Manj/Mint/Ubuntu) and found that they are all great for the basics .. browsing web/office crap/media .. Gaming has been a different cup of tea for me as only certain kernels work with my GPU+Vulkan(ie AMDGPU) so its been a bit on/off. Anything else has been a pain in the ass tbh .. Plug and play is not a term you can associate with linux unless were talking about a kb+m. Everything is Linux .. Needs to be setup - Everything E.g I use DAW`s & Midi & Sometimes I plug in a mixing controller. 5 years ago ... This was practically impossible unless you loads of spare time to read a load of guides which only sometimes got slight results. 5 year ago in windows .. You just plug it in .. Install the drivers, load a DAW, set it up n bam, your on your way. Over the years as Pipewire has slowly been introduced .. its works/ it breaks/ it works .. a new kernel comes out .. it breaks n over n over Window over the years .. just works! Its the same with gaming, you say that linux keeps old systems alive, but it dont. My gpu is 11yr old (R9 290) and only once have I ever got it working with AMDGPU due to the lack of driver support in Linux .. Yes it works with the radeon drivers but I cannot play any dx10/11 games with this card unless I revert back to a kernel that supported the drivers (think it was 4.4) but then I wont be able to enjoy any of the current innovations that come with the latest one .. its either/either not both making it a bit pointless. .. Guess what tho ... Windows the great hater of old tech ... That still runs my card no probs Yes linux might run better on your pc & yes linux technically is free & so are a lot of its apps ... But after 5 years of use its the same ol story for me ... Progression is always there, but its constantly breaking things at the same time .. Unless you are a technical whiz-kid or have no life and all the time in the day to read guides that "might" work or attempt fixes that you hope wont break your system ... Personally Id rather wait the extra 20 seconds for windows to load because at least I know 99.5% of the time ... What I aim to do in that current moment .. Im going to be able to actually do. I will still be keeping a partition of mint on my drive tho as I can agree that it is a very fast program, has good security and is handy when I just want to do basic everyday stuff but Im already shifting back to a windows os for everything else cos Id like to actually use some of the products I have bought without having to spend half the day setting it up or fixing issues you didnt anticipate. I have gone back to a different approach to my issues with OS`s .. Years ago I used Window Black & Winborg (I miss WinBorg) .. These were essentially hacked & de-bloated versions of WinXP & 7 .. They were great & saved a lot of system resources. Now I am using ReviOs https://www.minitool.com/news/revios-11-download.html Believe me its a lot lot faster than OG windows+ it has a really handy feature that doesnt require you to have a MS account in order to just use it ... Crazy huh n to top it off "it just works". The only thing it doesnt have is a system wide EQ like pulse/easy effect hence the question above I would truly love to see Linux succeed, but I feel to many cooks have spoiled the broth .. ie there is just constant progression & hardly any stability - shame

Do you know of a pulseeffects or easyeffects for windows?

Hey and soz for the late reply ... I tried what you suggested and it did solve the issues with FFox, thx ... But the Steam game kept giving me issues, so not sure what was happening there? However its all irrelevant atm as last night I decided to pull out one of my spare SSD`s (that was totally blank/Unused) from my system and when I went to boot it back up ... It could not find the boot-sector of Pop or ReviOs Yes I could have spent all night trying to follow instructions off my phone on how to re-build the boot sector from a live usb ( I tried a bit ) .. But after the 4th guide that didnt work I gave up and installed MINT from scratch. Il leave this post open tho as I will be re-setting up the system to how it was before & its a good opportunity to see what happens with ALSA & Pipewire ... Fingers Crossed!

Maybe it is .. Out of the two .... Is Arch or the Debian Route advised? ( used Linux for approx 4yrs, but dyslexic as F + ADHD ... Ie reading/letters is not my forte) On this topic Ive figured that its not actually Pipewire that's causing the issue but it actually ALSA. For some reason ALSA thinks that I have a 5.1 setup, when I only have stereo. Also ALSA keeps pushing the 5.1 meter levels to max and Ive tried editing via the terminal command, but it never seems to actually save the setting I leave it on ( even if I don't restart) This mainly only happens when I run this one game in steam ( its a very badly programmed game, so it could be just this game ) .. But I also find it happening when I open 2-3 seperate programs .. Ie FFox, Audacity & steam together ... Its almost feel like that Im getting a RAM bottling issue ... But I dont get this issue on ReviOS11 or Win 10 or a live usb of linux Mint. Im thinking of re-installing ALSA, but cant help thinking that somewhere, somehow .. I will just make the problem worse & then start crying again

Hello & thx for the response. I thought that it had worked and I was amazed when I play the game last night without a glitch .. But then this happened today. ( turn ure sound down b4 playing ) Atm .. Im getting pi$$ed of with pop ... I think this is the issue as I never had issues with Pipewire on Manj & I never had issues with pulse on any other distro apart from Pop again .. In fact .. everytime I update Pop .. something breaks .. every bloody time. I moved from manj due to a codec issue that was causing me issues with playing vids ( I think it was the .mp4 codec) .. Does anyone know if that problem has been resolved & if not can you suggest a good distro that would be good for gaming & entertainment as that is all I really use my pc for these days and im getting annoyed with having to "fix" something on PopOS every flipping month.

Hi, For some reason every time I load this 500mb dx10 game in steam ... https://store.steampowered.com/app/598810/Carcassonne__Tiles__Tactics/ My audio sounds like its being played off a record player. All i hear is constant glitching & crackling n I cant figure out what is going on (I do have the game running via WINE due to drivers issues with proton, so Idk if this matters?) Im running PopOs 22.04 with the Plasma KDE desktop with a i5-7600, 16gb RAM, r9 290. Im using Pipewire & easy effects ( this didnt happen with Pulse effects with the same hardware ) Ive tried re-installing Pipewire as per the PopOs instructions, but its still the same. Im kinda still a Linux noob (4yrs use) so am a bit lost as what to do to fix it as ive never come across a audio issue before Any suggestions?

I will download it and give it a go

Hi, My drive could be failing (im not to sure) .. but the the other day I could not access it .. I only used this drive for file storage and gaming .. I Dual boot PopOs & W10. In the bios it says the drive is not there ... In W10 it says the drive is not there ... In PopOs, it shows the drive but I cannot access it and I get this error (The pop up) In Gparted .. The drive and the partitions are visible (so I assume they are still there?) As you can also tell, I found a few guides telling me how to restore the "superblock" but didnt get very far, I assume because most of the drive is in NTFS format. So does anyone know how I can restore the Superblock for a NTFS partition that isnt reconized in windows?

I think Im SOL then .. Heres a photo of the systemd parameters that I setup before I blacklisted the Radeon drivers as per this guide https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU#Enable_Southern_Islands_(SI)_and_Sea_Islands_(CIK)_support I will go thru this guide and try again as this dude got it working on Arch and he has the same GPU as me, so it does work .. Just not for me atm https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=274737

Yeh Ive tried that already as mentioned in the 3rd "my thoughts section" and I just get a black screen. If I modify the parameters on boot so that the radeon cik & si are enabled, It will boot fine. I assume that I cannot use AMDVLK due to it needing the AMDGPU module to be used so im trying to find some different drivers that might let me use Vulkan with this card ... You know of any?

Hi and thx for the response. I realize that I need AMDGPU (This has been an on going 3 year venture for me), but I thought I had the AMDGPU modules installed on my system already? I have however been told in the past my the Manjaro Dev team and a few others on here that my card is not supported with AMDGPU module as my card is a gcn 2 and falls under the "experimental" category and that I would need to install the AMDGPU-pro drivers in order to get Vulkan working properly? I have been thru that wiki so many times, but I will give it another go since I am on a updated system (I last tried in 19.10 & 20.04, before I jumped over to Manjaro but similar results). I couldnt get a readout from the command you asked me to input, but I got these ones which I think are similar rob@pop-os:~$ lsmod | grep radeon radeon 1863680 61 i2c_algo_bit 16384 2 amdgpu,radeon drm_ttm_helper 16384 2 amdgpu,radeon ttm 98304 3 amdgpu,radeon,drm_ttm_helper drm_display_helper 184320 2 amdgpu,radeon drm_kms_helper 200704 3 drm_display_helper,amdgpu,radeon drm 589824 21 gpu_sched,drm_kms_helper,drm_display_helper, drm_buddy,amdgpu,radeon,drm_ttm_helper,ttm rob@pop-os:~$ lsmod | grep amdgpu amdgpu 12705792 0 iommu_v2 24576 1 amdgpu gpu_sched 49152 1 amdgpu drm_buddy 20480 1 amdgpu i2c_algo_bit 16384 2 amdgpu,radeon drm_ttm_helper 16384 2 amdgpu,radeon ttm 98304 3 amdgpu,radeon,drm_ttm_helper drm_display_helper 184320 2 amdgpu,radeon drm_kms_helper 200704 3 drm_display_helper,amdgpu,radeon drm 589824 21 gpu_sched,drm_kms_helper,drm_display_helper, drm_buddy,amdgpu,radeon,drm_ttm_helper,ttm rob@pop-os:~$ lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display' 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Haw aii PRO [Radeon R9 290/390] Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Hawaii PRO [Radeon R9 290/390] Kernel driver in use: radeon Kernel modules: radeon, amdgpu -- 03:00.0 Audio device: Creative Labs Sound Core3D [Sound Blaster Recon3D / Z-S eries] (rev 01) Subsystem: Creative Labs SB1570 SB Audigy Fx Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel I also was not aware that AMDVLK was a layer over the top of AMDGPU and considering what I said above about my card being in the experimental group Im wondering if its even worth trying to get this working now ... Do you know of any other open source drivers for Vulkan that I could give a go instead?

Hi, (specs below) Im trying to follow this guide https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/AMDVLK which advises how to install the AMDVLK so I can try and get my card working on Vulkan properly (R9 290). I followed the Ubuntu guide and everything went smoothly until I hit the "Build Driver and Generate JSON Files" section. When Inputting this instruction I get a error and Im stopped in my tracks > CMake Error: The source directory "/home/rob/xgl" does not exist. Specify --help for usage, or press the help button on the CMake GUI. As far as I can tell I have followed the guide properly but I have ADHD & Im dyslexic, so reading is deffo not my forte & I could have made a mistake. The only 3 things that are going thru my mind atm > 1 - The "script/build file" is pointing/looking in an incorrect directory for these files since I am running PopOs and not Ubuntu, but I do not know where/how/or even if I can/need to edit them myself? 2 - That I do not have the correct amdgpu firmware installed ... Its says in the "known issues" section that if you run this command sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/amdgpu_firmware_info that you can tell what firmware you have installed. I get cat: /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/amdgpu_firmware_info: No such file or directory. This suggests that its not installed? But the guide mentions that I might need to update it myself from this page https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/amdgpu But I have to admit I am totally lost as to what correct file to use from this site & how even to install it correctly The guide also kind of suggest that the firmware should already be installed as I am running kernel 6 leading me to believe that it could just be another "path" issue and it doesnt know where to find the firmware? 3 - That I am totally out of my depth once again and have got a real clue as to what I am doing I have tried adding the needed parameters to systemd to see if my card would work with the preinstalled AMDGPU driver & blacklisted the Radeon module .. but every time I get the black screen off death & then my TV loses signal too ♂ So Im now trying the AMDVLK route. Can anyone help? sudo lshw -c video [sudo] password for rob: *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: Hawaii PRO [Radeon R9 290/390] vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0 logical name: /dev/fb0 version: 00 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom fb configuration: depth=32 driver=radeon latency=0 resolution=1920,1080 resources: irq:32 memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f07fffff io port:e000(size=256) memory:f7e00000-f7e3ffff memory:c0000-dffff glxinfo -B name of display: :1 display: :1 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer): Vendor: AMD (0x1002) Device: HAWAII (, LLVM 14.0.0, DRM 2.50, 6.0.12-76060006-generic) (0x67b1 ) Version: 22.2.0 Accelerated: yes Video memory: 4096MB Unified memory: no Preferred profile: core (0x1) Max core profile version: 4.5 Max compat profile version: 4.5 Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1 Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.2 Memory info (GL_ATI_meminfo): VBO free memory - total: 3494 MB, largest block: 3494 MB VBO free aux. memory - total: 2015 MB, largest block: 2015 MB Texture free memory - total: 3494 MB, largest block: 3494 MB Texture free aux. memory - total: 2015 MB, largest block: 2015 MB Renderbuffer free memory - total: 3494 MB, largest block: 3494 MB Renderbuffer free aux. memory - total: 2015 MB, largest block: 2015 MB Memory info (GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info): Dedicated video memory: 4096 MB Total available memory: 6139 MB Currently available dedicated video memory: 3494 MB OpenGL vendor string: AMD OpenGL renderer string: HAWAII (, LLVM 14.0.0, DRM 2.50, 6.0.12-76060006-gene ric) OpenGL core profile version string: 4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 22.2.0 OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.50 OpenGL core profile context flags: (none) OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile OpenGL version string: 4.5 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 22.2.0 OpenGL shading language version string: 4.50 OpenGL context flags: (none) OpenGL profile mask: compatibility profile OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 Mesa 22.2.0 OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20 lspci -v 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family D RAM Controller (rev 09) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P8P67/P8H67 Series Motherboard Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: snb_uncore 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Core Proces sor Family PCI Express Root Port (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 25 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000efff Memory behind bridge: f7e00000-f7efffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000e0000000-00000000f07fffff Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: pcieport 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chip set Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P8 series motherboard Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 33 Memory at f7f05000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: mei_me Kernel modules: mei_me 00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 05) (prog-if 20 [EHCI]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P8 series motherboard Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23 Memory at f7f03000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev b5) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16 Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: [disabled] Memory behind bridge: [disabled] Prefetchable memory behind bridge: [disabled] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: pcieport 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev b5) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17 Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: [disabled] Memory behind bridge: f7d00000-f7dfffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: [disabled] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: pcieport 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev b5) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18 Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff Memory behind bridge: [disabled] Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f0900000-00000000f09fffff Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: pcieport 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev b5) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19 Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=05, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: [disabled] Memory behind bridge: f7c00000-f7cfffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: [disabled] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: pcieport 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev b5) (prog-if 01 [ Subtractive decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16 Bus: primary=00, secondary=06, subordinate=07, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: [disabled] Memory behind bridge: [disabled] Prefetchable memory behind bridge: [disabled] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: pcieport 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 05) (prog-if 20 [EHCI]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P8 series motherboard Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23 Memory at f7f02000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation H61 Express Chipset LPC Controller (rev 05) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. H61 Express Chipset LPC Controller Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: lpc_ich Kernel modules: lpc_ich 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family Desktop SATA Controller (IDE mode, ports 0-3) (rev 05) (prog-if 8f [PCI nativ e mode controller, supports both channels switched to ISA compatibility mode, supports bus mastering]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family Desktop SATA Controller (IDE mode, ports 0-3) Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19 I/O ports at f0d0 I/O ports at f0c0 I/O ports at f0b0 I/O ports at f0a0 I/O ports at f090 I/O ports at f080 Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: ata_piix Kernel modules: pata_acpi 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family SMBus Co ntroller (rev 05) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P8 series motherboard Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 18 Memory at f7f01000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) I/O ports at f000 Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus Kernel modules: i2c_i801 00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family Desktop SATA Controller (IDE mode, ports 4-5) (rev 05) (prog-if 85 [PCI nativ e mode-only controller, supports bus mastering]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family Desktop SATA Controller (IDE mode, ports 4-5) Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19 I/O ports at f070 I/O ports at f060 I/O ports at f050 I/O ports at f040 I/O ports at f030 I/O ports at f020 Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: ata_piix Kernel modules: pata_acpi 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Haw aii PRO [Radeon R9 290/390] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Hawaii PRO [Radeon R9 290/390] Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 32 Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) I/O ports at e000 Memory at f7e00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: radeon Kernel modules: radeon, amdgpu 01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Hawaii HDMI Audi o [Radeon R9 290/290X / 390/390X] Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Hawaii HDMI Audio [ Radeon R9 290/290X / 390/390X] Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 34 Memory at f7e60000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel 03:00.0 Audio device: Creative Labs Sound Core3D [Sound Blaster Recon3D / Z-S eries] (rev 01) Subsystem: Creative Labs SB1570 SB Audigy Fx Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17 Memory at f7d04000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) Memory at f7d00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/841 1 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P8P67 and other motherboards Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18 I/O ports at d000 Memory at f0904000 (64-bit, prefetchable) Memory at f0900000 (64-bit, prefetchable) Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: r8169 Kernel modules: r8169 05:00.0 USB controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1042 SuperSpeed USB Host C ontroller (prog-if 30 [XHCI]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P8B WS Motherboard Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19 Memory at f7c00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd Kernel modules: xhci_pci 06:00.0 PCI bridge: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1083/1085 PCIe to PCI Bridge ( rev 01) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11 Bus: primary=06, secondary=07, subordinate=07, sec-latency=64 I/O behind bridge: [disabled] Memory behind bridge: [disabled] Prefetchable memory behind bridge: [disabled] Capabilities: <access denied> sudo lshw -short H/W path Device Class Description ============================================================== system System Product Name (SKU) /0 bus P8H61-M LE/USB3 /0/0 memory 64KiB BIOS /0/4 processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500 /0/4/5 memory 256KiB L1 cache /0/4/6 memory 1MiB L2 cache /0/4/7 memory 6MiB L3 cache /0/53 memory 16GiB System Memory /0/53/0 memory 8GiB DIMM DDR3 Synchronous /0/53/1 memory 8GiB DIMM DDR3 Synchronous /0/100 bridge 2nd Generation Core Proces /0/100/1 bridge Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generatio /0/100/1/0 /dev/fb0 display Hawaii PRO [Radeon R9 290/ /0/100/1/0.1 card0 multimedia Hawaii HDMI Audio [Radeon /0/100/1/0.1/0 input16 input HDA ATI HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=3 /0/100/1/0.1/1 input17 input HDA ATI HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=7 /0/100/1/0.1/2 input18 input HDA ATI HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=8 /0/100/1/0.1/3 input19 input HDA ATI HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=9 /0/100/1/0.1/4 input20 input HDA ATI HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=1 /0/100/1/0.1/5 input21 input HDA ATI HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=1 /0/100/16 communication 6 Series/C200 Series Chips /0/100/1a bus 6 Series/C200 Series Chips /0/100/1a/1 usb1 bus EHCI Host Controller /0/100/1a/1/1 bus Integrated Rate Matching H /0/100/1a/1/1/1 generic 802.11 n WLAN /0/100/1c bridge 6 Series/C200 Series Chips /0/100/1c.1 bridge 6 Series/C200 Series Chips /0/100/1c.1/0 card1 multimedia Sound Core3D [Sound Blaste /0/100/1c.1/0/0 input22 input HDA Creative Front Mic /0/100/1c.1/0/1 input23 input HDA Creative Rear Mic /0/100/1c.1/0/2 input24 input HDA Creative Line /0/100/1c.1/0/3 input25 input HDA Creative Line Out Fron /0/100/1c.1/0/4 input26 input HDA Creative Line Out Surr /0/100/1c.1/0/5 input27 input HDA Creative Line Out CLFE /0/100/1c.1/0/6 input28 input HDA Creative Front Headpho /0/100/1c.2 bridge 6 Series/C200 Series Chips /0/100/1c.2/0 enp4s0 network RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Expr /0/100/1c.3 bridge 6 Series/C200 Series Chips /0/100/1c.3/0 bus ASM1042 SuperSpeed USB Hos /0/100/1c.3/0/0 usb3 bus xHCI Host Controller /0/100/1c.3/0/1 usb4 bus xHCI Host Controller /0/100/1c.4 bridge 82801 PCI Bridge /0/100/1c.4/0 bridge ASM1083/1085 PCIe to PCI B /0/100/1d bus 6 Series/C200 Series Chips /0/100/1d/1 usb2 bus EHCI Host Controller /0/100/1d/1/1 bus Integrated Rate Matching H /0/100/1d/1/1/4 input13 input Valve Software Steam Contr /0/100/1d/1/1/5 bus USB2.0 Hub /0/100/1d/1/1/5/3 input10 input Microsoft Microsoft® 2.4G /0/100/1d/1/1/5/4 input14 input Afterglow AX.1 Gamepad for /0/100/1d/1/1/6 communication TP-Link UB500 Adapter /0/100/1f bridge H61 Express Chipset LPC Co /0/100/1f/0 system PnP device PNP0c01 /0/100/1f/1 system PnP device PNP0c02 /0/100/1f/2 system PnP device PNP0b00 /0/100/1f/3 generic PnP device INT3f0d /0/100/1f/4 system PnP device PNP0c02 /0/100/1f/5 printer PnP device PNP0400 /0/100/1f/6 system PnP device PNP0c02 /0/100/1f/7 communication PnP device PNP0501 /0/100/1f/8 system PnP device PNP0c02 /0/100/1f.2 scsi0 storage 6 Series/C200 Series Chips /0/100/1f.2/0 /dev/sda disk 120GB SATA3 120GB SSD /0/100/1f.2/0/1 volume 1021MiB Windows FAT volume /0/100/1f.2/0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 4095MiB Windows FAT volume /0/100/1f.2/0/3 /dev/sda3 volume 102GiB EFI partition /0/100/1f.2/0/4 /dev/sda4 volume 4095MiB Linux swap volume /0/100/1f.2/1 /dev/sdb disk 120GB KINGSTON SA400S3 /0/100/1f.2/1/1 /dev/sdb1 volume 528MiB Windows NTFS volume /0/100/1f.2/1/2 /dev/sdb2 volume 99MiB Windows FAT volume /0/100/1f.2/1/3 /dev/sdb3 volume 15MiB reserved partition /0/100/1f.2/1/4 /dev/sdb4 volume 111GiB Windows NTFS volume /0/100/1f.3 bus 6 Series/C200 Series Chips /0/100/1f.5 scsi2 storage 6 Series/C200 Series Chips /0/100/1f.5/0 /dev/sdc disk 1TB ST1000DM003-9YN1 /0/100/1f.5/0/1 /dev/sdc1 volume 195GiB EXT4 volume /0/100/1f.5/0/2 /dev/sdc2 volume 736GiB Windows NTFS volume /0/100/1f.5/1 /dev/sdd disk 1TB ST1000DM010-2EP1 /0/100/1f.5/1/1 /dev/sdd1 volume 488GiB Windows NTFS volume /0/100/1f.5/1/2 /dev/sdd2 volume 200GiB Windows NTFS volume /0/100/1f.5/1/3 /dev/sdd3 volume 242GiB EXT4 volume /1 power To Be Filled By O.E.M. /2 power To Be Filled By O.E.M. /3 input0 input Power Button /4 input1 input Power Button /5 input15 input Eee PC WMI hotkeys /6 wlx7cdd905622da network Wireless interface

Hi all & thx for the comments I saw the original vid that "Brodie" did on the codec issue, but thx for the updated link, I somehow missed that one and it was an interesting watch I also agree that if the steamdeck version efficiently of Manjaro has the codecs enabled ... Then the Native Os should do too? I find it very bizarre that they are going down this route as im sure other users are also jumping distros just because of this, but Im sure the Os will survive as imo It was probably one of the best distros that I have used in the past 15 years and the only one that made me finally adopt a linux Os as my daily driver, so Im finding this all a bit of a shame considering its not really anything to do with the Os, rather the legalities behind it. Where as 15/20 years ago I may have been up for taking "the training wheels" off due to the amount of spare time I had .. Im not in that situ anymore and dont have the time to do all the reading/learning etc .. So I think im just going to have to move away from Manjaro and go back to using PopOs again(This time with the KDE desktop!) and hope Debian stick with their stance and dont unlist the codecs needed in an update. Ralphred ... I know your intentions are good but I have tried native Debian in the past and found it a bit of a pita so Im reluctant to go back to it and have to learn how to setup a system all over again. Learning how to install drivers n very basic commands thru terminal or editing some config files is enough for me .. I used to tinker like mad in the past but now I just want to use my time to do the things I find even more fun, so an "out of the box" setup distro is what Im after and PopOs did that the best for me before I moved to Manjaro. You never know, I could one day move back to MJ, but as you put it yourself, hopping distros all the time .. is also a pita n I think u can prob tell .. Im not a man that enjoys pita`s Thx again all for your advice & suggestions!

Hi, Ive been a Linux user for about the last 3 years but would consider myself still a relative noob due to my reluctance to learn how the whole Os actually works. I do not use it to code or program, Im just one of those users who made the move from W7 over to Linux due to W10 being a pita. I use my system mainly to game, watch vids, listen to music and surf the web. A few days ago my system was working fine with no lag. When I booted up the Os informed me that there was a kernel update of which I did (Im running 6.1.1-1 atm), I also updated the package manager & rebooted. Since then every time I try and view a video in FFox or the steam store .. Im literally getting 5-1- fps if Im lucky and its skipping frames all the time My initial thoughts were that the GPU drivers have mucked up again as I own a R9-290 and Manjaro does not support the AMDGPU-pro it drivers fully .. However, I checked my Os and found that i said I was still running the open source Radeon drivers so I was left a bit confused. I then checked the Manjaro forums and came across a post that advised that Mesa had effectively removed the codecs needed for AMD gpu`s and that if you wanted to use them you would either have to build/compile the kernel yourself to activate them or to actually purchase the codecs. https://forum.manjaro.org/t/amdgpu-losts-hardware-video-acceleration-va-api-vdpau-at-recent-update/128832 https://debugpointnews.com/fedora-37-mesa/ (another article advising the same) I ran vdpauinfo and confirmed a lot of codec support was missing from my system now I did find another post that gave an option to use a different driver https://forum.manjaro.org/t/best-way-to-get-h264-accelerated-again/130213/2 but I am reluctant in giving this a go as I really do not want to brick my system (again) and I do not have a 2nd pc to use for support instructions if I need to TTY due to another black screen boot up. So Im stuck with the drivers that comes with the Os for the time being & thus I will have no hardware video acceleration & thus 60% of my use on the PC does not work properly anymore making this Os a bit pointless for me now Apart from the fix(s) posted on the Manjaro site that I am not confident in performing successfully myself, there doesn't seem to be any long term solution for noobs apart from to re-install an older Os/Kernel from a flash drive and do not update - ever Does anyone know of a fix to this or are the links I have posted already the only fix to this?

Kudos for coming back and explain all that!

Hey Nayr438 .. I nearly forgot to come back with a update. Ironically I started to get some help from the peeps on the manjaro forums and whereas it was quite a long convo .. We managed to get Pipewire installed & running & thus I removed PEffects and the Boot errors finally disappeared Id still like to thank you for your input tho n I did suggest that I ran the commands to the manjaro peeps .. but I was promptly ignored twice n got the message not to. https://forum.manjaro.org/t/inxi-fazy-says-pipewire-is-running-but-i-cannot-delete-it-as-add-remove-says-it-isnt-installed/114602/49 On to my next venture ... Trying to get Vulkan running via my 29 290 (again) Ive recently read that apparently proton+vulkan now run via the pre-installed Radv drivers and the ACO compiler and I dont need to use amdgpu in order to get vulkan running on my system? Im prob going to make a new post cos I have a feeling that my knowlegde of all this is well out of date Anyway .. Thx again for you help

I gotta pop out for a bit, but will give them a go and let you know how it goes Thx again Nayr438

Hi Nayr438 & thx for helping I have tried in the past to use Pipewire & easyeffects - Failed and was advised that I cannot use Pipewire as im using Jack2 of which loads Via the Dbus & apparently Pipewire doesn't. https://forum.manjaro.org/t/cannot-install-manjaro-pipewire/102776/20 (comment 20 ( Chris Canyon )) Whenever I tried to install " manjaro-pipewire"via the guide on MJ-forums, I get the error - could not satisfy dependencies: - removing pulseaudio breaks dependency 'pulseaudio=16.0-1' required by pulseaudio-jack Sticking with PEffects as it works for the mo, but I`d rather use Easyeffects as it has a few more system options that I like the look of. Is there a way that I can find the GTK modules that are causing these errors so that I can try to either edit/remove or re-install them? .. Add/remove or discovery bring back no results. Also mass thx for helping with the other errors that you found .. I didnt even know they were an issue until you mentioned it .. I totally forgot that I installed Anbox & appimagelaucher yonks ago I have tried n get some help from the manjaro forums regarding this but they remain totally silent I was browsing reddit n came across this .. Id thought Id have a laugh n posted this .. I think I accidentally annoyed them .. Now I managed to gain even more silence .. Learnt my lesson tho & confirmed a internet stereotype .. Dont display humor in Linux forums

Any help or links on how to do it myself would be great … Im unable to solve this issue myself n I really dont fancy re-installing the whole Os just cos of these errors, but they are driving me a bit potty as the amount of googling I have done over the past week to fix this is taking its toll. Here is a bit more info .. System: Kernel: 5.15.46-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.0 parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64 root=UUID=ce855673-fe32-42db-ad8d-b31e5de8e913 rw radeon.si_support=1 radeon.cik_support=1 apparmor=1 security=apparmor resume=UUID=757b5e60-6999-41b8-a9df-8c2136460b4a udev.log_priority=3 Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.24.5 tk: Qt v: 5.15.4 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: P8H61-M LE/USB3 v: Rev x.0x serial: <superuser required> BIOS: American Megatrends v: 4601 date: 09/18/2013 Battery: Message: No system battery data found. Is one present? Memory: RAM: total: 15.59 GiB used: 2.44 GiB (15.6%) RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. CPU: Info: model: Intel Core i5-2500 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Sandy Bridge gen: core 2 built: 2010-12 process: Intel 32nm family: 6 model-id: 0x2A (42) stepping: 7 microcode: 0x2F Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 smt: <unsupported> cache: L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB L3: 6 MiB desc: 1x6 MiB Speed (MHz): avg: 1758 high: 1914 min/max: 1600/3700 scaling: driver: intel_cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 1723 2: 1705 3: 1914 4: 1692 bogomips: 26344 Flags: acpi aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon avx bts clflush cmov constant_tsc cpuid cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept est flexpriority flush_l1d fpu fxsr ht ibpb ibrs ida lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdtscp rep_good sep smx ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xsave xsaveopt xtopology xtpr Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling Type: srbds status: Not affected Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected Graphics: Device-1: AMD Hawaii PRO [Radeon R9 290/390] driver: radeon v: kernel alternate: amdgpu arch: GCN 2 process: GF/TSMC 16-28nm built: 2013-17 pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s ports: active: HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1,DVI-D-1,DVI-D-2 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:67b1 class-ID: 0300 Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.3 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: radeon unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: radeon display-ID: :0 screens: 1 Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22") s-diag: 582mm (22.93") Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-0 model: LG (GoldStar) 42LF66 serial: <filter> built: 2007 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 49 gamma: 1.2 size: 1000x550mm (39.37x21.65") diag: 802mm (31.6") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400 OpenGL: renderer: AMD HAWAII (LLVM 13.0.1 DRM 2.50 5.15.46-1-MANJARO) v: 4.5 Mesa 22.1.1 direct render: Yes Audio: Device-1: AMD Hawaii HDMI Audio [Radeon R9 290/290X / 390/390X] driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:aac8 class-ID: 0403 Device-2: Creative Labs Sound Core3D [Sound Blaster Recon3D / Z-Series] driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1102:0012 class-ID: 0403 Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.46-1-MANJARO running: yes Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 16.0 running: yes Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.52 running: yes Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK P8P67 and other motherboards driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: d000 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200 IF: enp4s0 state: down mac: <filter> Device-2: Ralink RT5370 Wireless Adapter type: USB driver: rt2800usb bus-ID: 1-1.1:3 chip-ID: 148f:5370 class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter> IF: wlp0s26u1u1 state: up mac: <filter> IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global broadcast: <filter> IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link IF-ID-1: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter> IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter> WAN IP: <filter> Bluetooth: Device-1: TP-Link UB500 Adapter type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 2-1.6:5 chip-ID: 2357:0604 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter> Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends Logical: Message: No logical block device data found. RAID: Message: No RAID data found. Drives: Local Storage: total: 2.04 TiB used: 1.51 TiB (74.1%) SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 model: SATA3 120GB SSD size: 111.79 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 7A0 scheme: MBR ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37120G size: 111.79 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 71E0 scheme: GPT ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM003-9YN162 size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: CC4H scheme: MBR ID-4: /dev/sdd maj-min: 8:48 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM010-2EP102 size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: CC43 scheme: MBR Message: No optical or floppy data found. Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 102.99 GiB size: 100.81 GiB (97.89%) used: 69.58 GiB (69.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: N/A uuid: ce855673-fe32-42db-ad8d-b31e5de8e913 ID-2: /mnt/239772ae-6e48-43f5-b5b0-abd9b7a2026a raw-size: 242.31 GiB size: 237.45 GiB (97.99%) used: 171.24 GiB (72.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdd3 maj-min: 8:51 label: LGamesTwo uuid: 239772ae-6e48-43f5-b5b0-abd9b7a2026a ID-3: /mnt/C428151D28150FD2 raw-size: 736.2 GiB size: 736.2 GiB (100.00%) used: 664.01 GiB (90.2%) fs: ntfs dev: /dev/sdc2 maj-min: 8:34 label: Storage & Entertainment uuid: C428151D28150FD2 ID-4: /mnt/CA5AC6375AC61FD5 raw-size: 488.28 GiB size: 488.28 GiB (100.00%) used: 472.24 GiB (96.7%) fs: ntfs dev: /dev/sdd1 maj-min: 8:49 label: Movies uuid: CA5AC6375AC61FD5 ID-5: /mnt/d415c0cf-c394-412e-9472-0898a39a5846 raw-size: 195.31 GiB size: 191.19 GiB (97.89%) used: 169.89 GiB (88.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc1 maj-min: 8:33 label: LGames uuid: d415c0cf-c394-412e-9472-0898a39a5846 Swap: Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: swap uuid: 757b5e60-6999-41b8-a9df-8c2136460b4a Unmounted: ID-1: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 size: 529 MiB fs: ntfs label: Recovery uuid: 1870D08670D06C4E ID-2: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18 size: 100 MiB fs: vfat label: N/A uuid: 2AD3-89A2 ID-3: /dev/sdb3 maj-min: 8:19 size: 16 MiB fs: <superuser required> label: N/A uuid: N/A ID-4: /dev/sdb4 maj-min: 8:20 size: 111.16 GiB fs: ntfs label: N/A uuid: 4A00D70D00D6FF3F ID-5: /dev/sdd2 maj-min: 8:50 size: 200.92 GiB fs: ntfs label: Win Games uuid: 01D6F3D4331C3030 USB: Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 8087:0024 class-ID: 0900 Device-1: 1-1.1:3 info: Ralink RT5370 Wireless Adapter type: Network driver: rt2800usb interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 450mA chip-ID: 148f:5370 class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter> Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 Hub-4: 2-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 8087:0024 class-ID: 0900 Device-1: 2-1.4:3 info: Valve Wireless Steam Controller type: Keyboard,HID driver: hid-steam,usbhid interfaces: 5 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 28de:1142 class-ID: 0300 Hub-5: 2-1.5:4 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 05e3:0608 class-ID: 0900 Device-1: 2-1.5.3:6 info: Logic3 Afterglow AX.1 Gamepad for Xbox 360 type: <vendor specific> driver: xpad interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 0e6f:0413 class-ID: ff00 serial: <filter> Device-2: 2-1.5.4:7 info: Microsoft Nano Transceiver v1.0 for Bluetooth type: Keyboard,Mouse,HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 045e:0745 class-ID: 0300 Device-3: 2-1.6:5 info: TP-Link UB500 Adapter type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 2357:0604 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter> Hub-6: 3-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 Hub-7: 4-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: radeon temp: 61.0 C Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A Info: Processes: 222 Uptime: 58m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 251 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.1.0 clang: 13.0.1 Packages: 1754 pacman: 1709 lib: 499 flatpak: 26 snap: 19 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 default: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.18 I dont believe that the errors I am getting are HW related so I didnt get any dmesg read outs, When I run the program for terminal I get … flatpak run com.github.wwmm.pulseeffects Gtk-Message: 18:47:43.579: Failed to load module "xapp-gtk3-module" Gtk-Message: 18:47:43.579: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" (pulseeffects:2): pulseeffects-WARNING **: 18:47:43.629: sie: rtkit: Failed to connect to system bus: Could not connect: No such file or directory (pulseeffects:2): pulseeffects-WARNING **: 18:47:43.832: soe: rtkit: Failed to connect to system bus: Could not connect: No such file or directory (pulseeffects:2): pulseeffects-WARNING **: 18:47:46.018: pulse_info: pulseaudio --dump-conf : execve failed: No such file or directory (pulseeffects:2): pulseeffects-WARNING **: 18:47:46.019: pulse_info: pulseaudio --dump-resample-methods : execve failed: No such file or directory If I run .. journalctl --catalog --priority=3 --boot=-1 Jun 17 21:11:44 rob-Manj-22 kernel: usb 2-1.6: device descriptor read/64, error -32 Jun 17 21:11:43 rob-Manj-22 systemd-modules-load[241]: Failed to find module 'ashmem_linux' Jun 17 21:11:43 rob-Manj-22 systemd-modules-load[241]: Failed to find module 'binder_linux' Jun 17 21:11:43 rob-Manj-22 systemd-modules-load[241]: Failed to find module 'vboxdrv' Jun 17 21:11:43 rob-Manj-22 systemd-modules-load[241]: Failed to find module 'vboxnetadp' Jun 17 21:11:43 rob-Manj-22 systemd-modules-load[241]: Failed to find module 'vboxnetflt' Jun 17 21:11:45 rob-Manj-22 systemd-udevd[259]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/99-anbox.rules:1 Ignoring NAME="%k", as it will take no effect. Jun 17 21:11:45 rob-Manj-22 systemd-udevd[259]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/99-anbox.rules:2 Ignoring NAME="%k", as it will take no effect. Jun 17 21:12:28 rob-Manj-22 systemd-coredump[2028]: [🡕] Process 1332 (appimagelaunche) of user 1000 dumped core. Module linux-vdso.so.1 with build-id 7f4bbc899ded58af6e372ed4489d77a90e4a9b11 Module libdatrie.so.1 with build-id 6fe3b6ece2c8e7d11869fa051375128d8f808f58 Module libblkid.so.1 with build-id 140694a62d8d4d07c6c320a501f948dd1b389d73 Module libgpg-error.so.0 with build-id 4738b8a9478177c202cccd64e0eb65d3dea2bfae Module libXdmcp.so.6 with build-id d864159ab0008415667db8d5f251696d75c90df2 Module libXau.so.6 with build-id 60db1eac70f819bea9d4c366603c1583067510b4 Module libthai.so.0 with build-id a7ac5010b4275c49308021200d23690533952702 Module libfribidi.so.0 with build-id fe9f35ac2a0074108c8306c517793f7279bd9b37 Module libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 with build-id c2c09f789578900f61b7fca4a4311d8b94d9a750 Module libmount.so.1 with build-id 4436aeea0cd8c01b5a77969e0531184f8b3513ce Module libtiff.so.5 with build-id 31895d2bd133f34f0cdc2d4ac855ed838ec927b6 Module libjpeg.so.8 with build-id 8e6d3f3e8f438912b561c43b6e7f66e6e5e097d0 Module libgmodule-2.0.so.0 with build-id 3b42a54783f0665e688370b6c57238c05822c50e Module libgraphite2.so.3 with build-id ce58945ebb55b86d3a4e717b6eae29efc4720d8e Module libGLX.so.0 with build-id 02bd4ac6acc4da9288c543ea1a0cdaa70c5e151a Module libGLdispatch.so.0 with build-id de981c020bd9dbdc159b11f4a2a541310cc3b8d5 Module libbrotlicommon.so.1 with build-id acfd597a977c8087bb6184383daae2e828a9ce42 Module libresolv.so.2 with build-id 89a368a6ad1b392d126a2a5beb9c2f61ade00279 Module libkeyutils.so.1 with build-id ac405ddd17be10ce538da3211415ee50c8f8df79 Module libkrb5support.so.0 with build-id 15f223925ef59dee4379ebbc0fcd14eda9ba81a2 Module libcom_err.so.2 with build-id 358b783c9b3d12ba8248519ea2e7f3da4c4e0297 Module libk5crypto.so.3 with build-id cc77a742cb62447a53d98285b41558b8acd92866 Module libkrb5.so.3 with build-id 371cc767dacb17cb42c9c44b88eebbed5ee9a756 Module libunistring.so.2 with build-id 617dbf3d3d6f85d6556a7a036e23845e95490158 Module libicudata.so.71 with build-id 4fef196388e678deb881978139e125e20ee2d94d Module libgcrypt.so.20 with build-id 8bf3cb884124273640de797a3e77d86c98434ea4 Module libcap.so.2 with build-id 21b00ab76bb16fde56fd741f07233c78069f0579 Module libpthread.so.0 with build-id 95ae4f30a6f12ccbff645d30f8e1a3ee23ec7d36 Module libpixman-1.so.0 with build-id d2170a3ac106c2a68597bf7910ab04b1cdd69c14 Module libxcb-shm.so.0 with build-id 828fec4d856e2710e732ea8d92c3f250c807b1c2 Module libxcb-render.so.0 with build-id b1ca498d665807ab0ccdafbe8070853efd058173 Module libxcb.so.1 with build-id 13d677412a71468381b11092915d231f664d18d3 Module libXrender.so.1 with build-id 42e386d2acf3cde61081959d9671ca74acfb3edc Module libXext.so.6 with build-id 17beadf1cb40d41ab36629db3b4eed74110678a7 Module libX11.so.6 with build-id 310f8f1b8d7457d326407e0eb794353c62769b73 Module libfreetype.so.6 with build-id f89dd5502e75aca28fb5c3ccd0dbd26fe822bfef Module libfontconfig.so.1 with build-id 36be6951b8c1e42a7dd05684a37400fc8ef9147c Module libffi.so.8 with build-id f0a9586cf0f42d2b9971bd1065ca3a6b19f4a2c2 Module libpango-1.0.so.0 with build-id 7e27c1e46a1d958f6b16e1ba199f8bdb3f100566 Module libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 with build-id b65f507d9e33adfbd19369acef5e5a0a2422c6d1 Module libxml2.so.2 with build-id 8cdf00fa954d9a27f2f184c4d354cb14677446ac Module libgio-2.0.so.0 with build-id bc795ed533f1b5c20cdc8600cf855216d692087f If I run journalctl --catalog --priority=4 --boot=-16 Jun 16 23:54:11 rob-Manj-22 kernel: ENERGY_PERF_BIAS: Set to 'normal', was 'performance' Jun 16 23:54:11 rob-Manj-22 kernel: usb 2-1.6: device descriptor read/64, error -32 Jun 16 23:54:11 rob-Manj-22 kernel: ata2.01: failed to resume link (SControl 0) Jun 16 23:54:11 rob-Manj-22 kernel: ata1.01: failed to resume link (SControl 0) Jun 16 23:54:10 rob-Manj-22 systemd-modules-load[241]: Failed to find module 'ashmem_linux' Jun 16 23:54:10 rob-Manj-22 systemd-modules-load[241]: Failed to find module 'binder_linux' Jun 16 23:54:11 rob-Manj-22 systemd-modules-load[241]: Failed to find module 'vboxdrv' Jun 16 23:54:11 rob-Manj-22 systemd-modules-load[241]: Failed to find module 'vboxnetadp' Jun 16 23:54:11 rob-Manj-22 systemd-modules-load[241]: Failed to find module 'vboxnetflt' Jun 16 23:54:13 rob-Manj-22 kernel: kauditd_printk_skb: 79 callbacks suppressed Jun 16 23:54:13 rob-Manj-22 kernel: ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000428-0x000000000000042F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000400-0x000000000000047F (\PMIO) (20210730/utaddress-204) Jun 16 23:54:13 rob-Manj-22 kernel: ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000540-0x000000000000054F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000500-0x000000000000057F (\_SB.PCI0.LPCB.GPBX) (20210730/utaddress-204) Jun 16 23:54:13 rob-Manj-22 kernel: ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000540-0x000000000000054F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000500-0x0000000000000563 (\GPIO) (20210730/utaddress-204) Jun 16 23:54:13 rob-Manj-22 kernel: ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000530-0x000000000000053F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000500-0x000000000000057F (\_SB.PCI0.LPCB.GPBX) (20210730/utaddress-204) Jun 16 23:54:13 rob-Manj-22 kernel: ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000530-0x000000000000053F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000500-0x0000000000000563 (\GPIO) (20210730/utaddress-204) Jun 16 23:54:13 rob-Manj-22 kernel: ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000500-0x000000000000052F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000500-0x000000000000057F (\_SB.PCI0.LPCB.GPBX) (20210730/utaddress-204) Jun 16 23:54:13 rob-Manj-22 kernel: ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000500-0x000000000000052F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000500-0x000000000000050F (\_GPE.GPIO) (20210730/utaddress-204) Jun 16 23:54:13 rob-Manj-22 kernel: ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000500-0x000000000000052F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000500-0x0000000000000563 (\GPIO) (20210730/utaddress-204) Jun 16 23:54:13 rob-Manj-22 kernel: lpc_ich: Resource conflict(s) found affecting gpio_ich Jun 16 23:54:13 rob-Manj-22 kernel: r8169 0000:04:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have ASPM control Jun 16 23:54:13 rob-Manj-22 kernel: resource sanity check: requesting [mem 0x000c0000-0x000dffff], which spans more than PCI Bus 0000:00 [mem 0x000d0000-0x000d3fff window] Jun 16 23:54:13 rob-Manj-22 kernel: caller pci_map_rom+0x65/0x180 mapping multiple BARs Jun 16 23:54:13 rob-Manj-22 kernel: at24 0-0050: supply vcc not found, using dummy regulator Jun 16 23:54:12 rob-Manj-22 systemd-udevd[265]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/99-anbox.rules:1 Ignoring NAME="%k", as it will take no effect. Jun 16 23:54:12 rob-Manj-22 systemd-udevd[265]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/99-anbox.rules:2 Ignoring NAME="%k", as it will take no effect. Jun 16 23:54:14 rob-Manj-22 dnsmasq[1189]: no servers found in /etc/resolv.conf, will retry Jun 16 23:54:17 rob-Manj-22 sddm-greeter[1281]: QFont::fromString: Invalid description '(empty)' Jun 16 23:54:17 rob-Manj-22 sddm-greeter[1281]: QObject: Cannot create children for a parent that is in a different thread. (Parent is QGuiApplication(0x7fff60933600), parent's thread is QThread(0x55843820f200), current thread is QThread(0x55843857d030) Jun 16 23:54:17 rob-Manj-22 sddm-greeter[1281]: QObject: Cannot create children for a parent that is in a different thread. (Parent is QGuiApplication(0x7fff60933600), parent's thread is QThread(0x55843820f200), current thread is QThread(0x55843857d030) Jun 16 23:54:17 rob-Manj-22 sddm-greeter[1281]: QObject: Cannot create children for a parent that is in a different thread. (Parent is QGuiApplication(0x7fff60933600), parent's thread is QThread(0x55843820f200), current thread is QThread(0x55843857d030) Jun 16 23:54:17 rob-Manj-22 sddm-greeter[1281]: QObject::installEventFilter(): Cannot filter events for objects in a different thread. Jun 16 23:54:17 rob-Manj-22 kernel: kauditd_printk_skb: 187 callbacks suppressed Jun 16 23:54:18 rob-Manj-22 sddm-greeter[1281]: file:///usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/components/VirtualKeyboard.qml:11:1: Type InputPanel unavailable Jun 16 23:54:18 rob-Manj-22 sddm-greeter[1281]: qrc:/QtQuick/VirtualKeyboard/content/InputPanel.qml:127:5: Type Keyboard unavailable Jun 16 23:54:18 rob-Manj-22 sddm-greeter[1281]: qrc:/QtQuick/VirtualKeyboard/content/components/Keyboard.qml:38:1: module "QtQuick.VirtualKeyboard.Plugins" is not installed Jun 16 23:54:18 rob-Manj-22 sddm-greeter[1281]: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile Jun 16 23:54:18 rob-Manj-22 sddm-greeter[1281]: QDBusConnection: name 'org.freedesktop.UDisks2' had owner '' but we thought it was ':1.22' Jun 16 23:54:33 rob-Manj-22 systemd-xdg-autostart-generator[1331]: /home/rob/.config/autostart/com.github.wwmm.pulseeffects.desktop:17: Unknown key name 'TerminalOptions' in section 'Desktop Entry', ignoring. Jun 16 23:54:33 rob-Manj-22 systemd-xdg-autostart-generator[1331]: /home/rob/.config/autostart/easyeffects-service.desktop: not generating unit, error parsing Exec= line: No such file or directory Jun 16 23:54:34 rob-Manj-22 systemd-xdg-autostart-generator[1371]: /home/rob/.config/autostart/com.github.wwmm.pulseeffects.desktop:17: Unknown key name 'TerminalOptions' in section 'Desktop Entry', ignoring. Jun 16 23:54:34 rob-Manj-22 NetworkManager[648]: <warn> [1655420074.2229] device (wlp0s26u1u1): no secrets: No agents were available for this request. Jun 16 23:54:34 rob-Manj-22 NetworkManager[648]: <warn> [1655420074.2231] device (wlp0s26u1u1): Activation: failed for connection 'GCandy' Jun 16 23:54:34 rob-Manj-22 systemd-xdg-autostart-generator[1371]: /home/rob/.config/autostart/easyeffects-service.desktop: not generating unit, error parsing Exec= line: No such file or directory Jun 16 23:54:34 rob-Manj-22 ksplashqml[1351]: file:///home/rob/.local/share/plasma/look-and-feel/Animation-Lightning-dfuk/contents/splash/Splash.qml:107:17: QML Image: Cannot open: file:///home/rob/.local/share/plasma/look-and-feel/Ani> Jun 16 23:54:34 rob-Manj-22 ksplashqml[1351]: file:///home/rob/.local/share/plasma/look-and-feel/Animation-Lightning-dfuk/contents/splash/Splash.qml:62:13: QML Image: Cannot open: file:///home/rob/.local/share/plasma/look-and-feel/Anim> Jun 16 23:54:34 rob-Manj-22 klauncher[1382]: Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) Jun 16 23:54:34 rob-Manj-22 kcminit_startup[1386]: QDBusConnection: error: could not send signal to service "" path "//home/rob/.kde4/share/config/kdeglobals" interface "org.kde.kconfig.notify" member "ConfigChanged": Invalid object pa> Jun 16 23:54:35 rob-Manj-22 kwin_x11[1397]: Warning: Setting a new default format with a different version or profile after the global shared context is created may cause issues with context sharing. Jun 16 23:54:35 rob-Manj-22 kwin_x11[1397]: kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: inet:323:58: unrecognized keysym "XF86EmojiPicker" I am a linux noob … I really have no idea how I can go about trying to resolve this issue other than what I tried already (wich was a basic remove n re-install n trying to remove the modules un-sucessfully). Any pointers advising how I can stop these modules from trying to load would be appreciated.

Shameless bump

Go thru this 1st https://support.system76.com/articles/package-manager-pop/ https://support.system76.com/

Personally to me it sounds like ure HD is on the way out. The suggestions b4 are helpful but I would try to take a clone/snapshot of the drive https://www.maketecheasier.com/clone-entire-hard-drive-linux/ and then try access the files without having to fire up the drive again just to be safer.

Hi, Using Manjaro KDE 5.24.5 After a recent system update I go this issue https://github.com/flathub/com.github.wwmm.pulseeffects/issues/64 As you can tell from the answer I received the modules that are causing the issue have nothing to do with pulse so I tried removing the modules but cannot as 1 is used with timeshift (xapp) and the other is used with gnome-disk-utility (canberra) programs. I do not wish to delete these programs. How can I stop pulse from trying to use these modules so this error goes away? Also on the same post I received advice on how to make it run in the back ground, but Im not to sure where to place this command? If I try and edit the application > command .. by adding "--gapplication-service" to the end, I get a error "Could not save properties due to insufficient write access to: ‘/home/rob/.local/share/applications/com.github.wwmm.pulseeffects.desktop’." Im a little stuck .. Any ideas?

Also .. you do not need to switch HDD, M2 .. whatever ... just make sure u have at least 20% spare so that windows can use its cache properly - also make sure you havent played with that in the past too ( u may have changed something n forgotton (I do that )) https://www.windowscentral.com/how-change-virtual-memory-size-windows-10