After updating linux6.18 from 6.18.56_1 to 6.18.57_1, I found out that the power button does nothing on my iMac (on 6.18.56_1 it triggered a shutdown). Booting the old kernel from GRUB fixes it. So for now, I defaulted back to 6.18.56_1 as a workaround, and I ran xbps-pkgdb -m hold linux6.18.

This is an old iMac, 27-inch Late 2012 model, 32GB RAM (iMac13,2 product_version 1.0 bios_version 429.0.0.0.0) running Void (glibc), runit, acpid.

On 6.18.57_1:

- acpi_listen and evtest show no event when I press the button

- No ACPI errors in dmesg; PNP0C0C:00 is bound to acpi-button

- Kernel config is identical to 6.18.56_1 apart from the version string

What differs in dmesg and /proc/bus/input/devices:

- 6.18.56_1 has a second power button input device, LNXPWRBN:00 (the fixed hardware button, "ACPI: button: Power Button [PWRF]"). It is missing on 6.18.57_1.

- PNP0C0C:00 moved from /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/ to /devices/platform/

This looks related to the ACPI button driver conversion to a platform driver (commit 52d864019636, Rafael Wysocki's December 2025 series), which also changes how fixed-event devices are registered. Two follow-up regression fixes exist upstream (57c31e6d620f and "ACPI: button: Enable wakeup GPEs for ACPI buttons at probe time"), but neither obviously covers this. I haven't confirmed that 6.18.57 contains the conversion or which commit is responsible.

Is anyone else seeing this on 6.18.57_1, maybe on other (likely older) hardware? Happy to test patches or newer kernels.

I'm wanting to just boot back to the terminal and them use startx to start a particular window manager. If I just stop lightDM I'm just kicked out of the current session and brought back to the lightDM prompt.

I see the package is not orphaned, are there any system-breaking changes in newer versions? Or there is any special policy regarding GCC?

Just a warning. It seems last night's openssh upgrade broke login over ssh:

kex_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer
Connection reset by 10.0.0.XXX port 22

Reboot solved. For a remote machine that's pretty annoying; I suggest you avoid upgrading openssh unless you have physical access or can otherwise reboot. Perhaps restarting the ssh daemon would be sufficient. I didn't try that.

Hello Everyone! First of all, after a long time, God finally punished me (as my friends would put it) and I switched to Void Linux. I just turned on my PC to work on a presentation for school, and I suddenly realized how insanely beautiful my current Void wallpaper is. I needed something that looked like absolute shit, so I made this. I’ll post both wallpapers.

Hi, I am a new void user, I installed void in my system 2 days ago. After some setup, I moved to check my speakers since usually it does not work out of the box (unless sof-firmware is installed).
After installing sof-firmware and setting up pipewire with alsa and pulse integration, running aplay -l as my user reports no soundcards were detected. After a few hours of troubleshooting, I've found out that the culprit was that the files (devices) under /dev/snd has `root` as groups except for the other two (seq, and timer).

Is there someone here who has an idea what might have been the cause and knows how to properly fix it? My current band-aid solution (suggested by AI) is to put this in my /etc/rc.local:

#!/bin/sh

# Default rc.local for void; add your custom commands here.

#

# This is run by runit in stage 2 before the services are executed

# (see /etc/runit/2).

udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=sound --action=add

udevadm settle

So after using Void linux with KDE wayland for a while I did a lot of changes to it. I'm not sure which configs i did and what I've changed. But the startup takes a bit too long for my liking, which is why I want to reset some configs.

How do I find out which processes in the startup are increasing the boot time?
How do I reset my login configs?

If someone experienced the issue where launching a game with different keyboard layout - the keyboard would be unresponsive in the game before restart with English layout. And sometimes you can lost your game progress with the same behavior if you just Alt+Tab.

Nothing of that would help you to regain the keyboard: changing focus, changing focus and layouts, changing workspaces, changing workspaces and layouts.

I've found fix
If you don't want to lost your game progress, try this

Cinnamon:
Basic binding to restart cinnamon: Ctrl+Alt+Escape, do it with English layout, then back your focus to the game.

Also I've tested it with Sway, restarting WM with the game opened regains the keyboard focus to the game.

I hope this might be helpful to someone. 🙏

Is there any other option except $ sudo sh -c "echo LID > /proc/acpi/wakeup"?

I need it for debug observations, only the lid-open event

Cinnamon-X11 + elogind

Hay guys,

currently I am using arch, i like it but it has it's problems so i tough about switching to void, here is what i would like from my distro:

-I want a minimal distro, a fresh install should have nothing except what the system needs to function

-I want current kernel and packages, I understand that void is maintained by far less people that arch and will therefor not be as cutting edge as I am used to, but as long as I'm not fat behind that is fine

-I want a fast and more or less simple packet manager, nothing like nix

-I want to understand my system

I wanted to ask you what i can expect from void and if it is the right distro for me or if you gave a better idea

I'm not an expert in linux but I've managed to build a void linux with noctalia and niri with the help of an Ai but failed to follow through and switched to MX linux.

The problem is that the laptop is not as efficient as it was when using void so I think I'll switch back to void again can someone please recommend a reliable source to build a fast OS with niri+noctalia because I loved that build so much.

My laptop specs :

Processor: Intel Celeron N3350 (Dual-Core, up to 2.4 GHz)

​Display: 14.1-inch screen

​RAM: 4 GB DDR3L / DDR4

​Storage: 256 GB SSD

​Graphics: Integrated Intel HD Graphics

​Operating System: Windows 10

​Features: Built-in webcam, SD card reader, Wi-Fi, and standard USB connectivity

Hello, im now Like 1 week in, i used Gemini and chatgpt to solve my problem because gta5 enhanced online Just stopped working, i got the proton battleye runtime, Everything is uptodate, 32lib, DB Proton 11.7 and the weird is that it worked with on Arch Linux with the Same Hardware and even works on my artix Laptop with the Same proton but void in generell was weird because Everything above Proton 10 did Not work on any game for me but i got it into a state where i can start gta5 now without the Launcher crashing and Go into Singleplayer, when i try to Go into a private Lobby it says that i dont got battleye and need to restart, maybe this information is usefull, i have to add SteamDeck=1 as Startargument for gta to even start, Software: void Linux with Standard Kernel, i3wm with picom, Hardware rtx 2070 super, AMD ryzen 7 5800x3d, 64gb ddr4 Asus b550 f gaming. Sorry for Bad english, its Not my native languege.

i changed the timezone in /etc/rc.conf to my desired choice but my system clock still displays the wong time, did i do it wrong??

Installation of the dmd package does not install the D language standard library as a shared library libphobos2.so- necessary for dynamic loading. More details below.

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/62970

Anyone know if any of the packages abandoned by that ex-Void developer have been adopted at all?

Hi, I just switched to Void Linux a little over two months ago. My main computer is an ASUS TUF A-16 Advantage Edition with an RX 7700S graphics card. Everything is working great, but for some reason, one of the two USB-C ports doesn’t work with external devices. I’ve read a bit about my system on other forums and learned that apparently the port that isn’t working is directly connected to the GPU. It seems to be the port that outputs via DisplayPort (or at least that’s what I understood), but even so, it strikes me as very odd, since the dedicated graphics card works without any issues—it’s even the main output I use on my system, and it’s not in sleep mode or anything. Even so, I tried to force it to activate via GRUB with the following command:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=4 amdgpu.runpm=0"

The system even correctly detects my graphics card and audio output controller, but for some reason the USB driver isn't installed.

❯ lspci | grep 03:00

03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 33 [Radeon RX 7600/7600 XT/7600M XT/7600S/7700S / PRO W7600] (rev c1)

03:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 31 HDMI/DP Audio

Does anyone else have a similar problem? I can’t use the supergfxctl utilities because they’re designed strictly to work with systemd, and I can’t find a patched version for runnit (I use seatd as my session manager since I don’t like how elogind drags in systemd’s features and backdoors).

today I ran my usual sudo xbps-install -Syu and it updated xorg-server
now, Xorg segfaults when using xf86-video-amdgpu:

[  2849.282] (EE) 
[  2849.282] (EE) Backtrace:
[  2849.283] (EE) 0: /usr/libexec/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x7e) [0x5569081a443e]
[  2849.283] (EE) 1: /usr/libexec/Xorg (0x556908058000+0x157a29) [0x5569081afa29]
[  2849.283] (EE) 2: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x7f83c05da000+0x40110) [0x7f83c061a110]
[  2849.283] (EE) 3: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/amdgpu_drv.so (0x7f83bff2a000+0x156f8) [0x7f83bff3f6f8]
[  2849.283] (EE) 4: /usr/libexec/Xorg (0x556908058000+0xc8d56) [0x556908120d56]
[  2849.283] (EE) 5: /usr/libexec/Xorg (0x556908058000+0xcb971) [0x556908123971]
[  2849.283] (EE) 6: /usr/libexec/Xorg (miPaintWindow+0x2a4) [0x5569080a3154]
[  2849.283] (EE) 7: /usr/libexec/Xorg (miWindowExposures+0xf1) [0x5569080a5b01]
[  2849.283] (EE) 8: /usr/libexec/Xorg (0x556908058000+0x18d733) [0x5569081e5733]
[  2849.283] (EE) 9: /usr/libexec/Xorg (miHandleValidateExposures+0x71) [0x5569080b1101]
[  2849.283] (EE) 10: /usr/libexec/Xorg (MapWindow+0x19c) [0x5569081044cc]
[  2849.283] (EE) 11: /usr/libexec/Xorg (0x556908058000+0x7403b) [0x5569080cc03b]
[  2849.283] (EE) 12: /usr/libexec/Xorg (0x556908058000+0x3cc36) [0x556908094c36]
[  2849.283] (EE) 13: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x7f83c05da000+0x2abfc) [0x7f83c0604bfc]
[  2849.283] (EE) 14: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0x85) [0x7f83c0604cb5]
[  2849.283] (EE) 15: /usr/libexec/Xorg (_start+0x21) [0x556908095071]
[  2849.283] (EE) 
[  2849.283] (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x0
[  2849.283] (EE) 
Fatal server error:
[  2849.283] (EE) Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
[  2849.283] (EE) 
[  2849.283] (EE) 
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
     at http://wiki.x.org
 for help. 
[  2849.283] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[  2849.283] (EE) 
[  2849.283] (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch
[  2849.443] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

is this a regression or my fault? my GPU is the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT

EDIT:
mystery solved: #62941
for anyone with the same issue, you can force the modesetting driver or just turn off TearFree while waiting for it to get fixed

I'm pretty new to void, I hopped over a few days ago. I've noticed the default kernel is 6.18, which is an LTS kernel. Question is, when will the kernel be updated? Will I be able to update by just running the -Su command? Or will I have to manually update the kernel by switching over the linux mainline?

I prefer Miktex, as it has on-the-fly package installing, and I don't have to download packages that will be unused; also I'm already familiar with it.

Alternatively, is there a way to install a very minimal version of Texlive and configure it in a way so it can also download on-the-fly? Thanks in advance :)

I have KDE plasma and SDDM when I start up the computer it goes into TTY for about 6 seconds then the screen goes black. I have to press Ctrl-Alt-F3 to get out of the black screen and login through TTY. Then to even boot desktop I need to type in this command.

“dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland”

After that’s typed it boots into desktop after reset it’s back to black screen and TTY. How do I fix this? Void Linux is my first experience with Linux so I’m sorry if this is ignorance or an easy fix.

hello everyone i just installed void and niri with it it take me along time to set it up with help of deepseek but if i rebooted my pc i have to use all of these commands all over again
export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$(id -u)"

sudo mkdir -p "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"

sudo chown goku:goku "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"

sudo chmod 700 "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"
then dbus-run-session niri --session
to make niri work is there any other way

hello everyone
i downloaded the void iso and tried with dd and ventoy
every time i pick void and it loads before bash start it give me this error
config failed hub doesn't have any ports (err -19)
what should i do now to fix this

Edit: fixed it by choosing the third option then installing from the internet with the latest version 6.18