Two weeks ago, I noticed that the audio coming from my headphones isn't the same pitch in either ear. The left side is about a half-step higher than the right side. This is only occurring when I'm playing games. The problem could have been going on for longer and I just missed it, as it's only noticeable when there's in game music playing, plus I've been sick and hadn't been gaming much.

I've tested different headsets, I've tested using the speakers on my monitors, and the issue persists regardless of speaker. I tried tinkering with Pipewire to change some of the values or setting config files, but that didn't solve it. I even tried having the game audio go out to a sound loop, and the pitch still didn't match. I tried launching games with Discord open and completely closed, same difference. I'm at a loss. Has anyone else ever run into this?

https://paste.cachyos.org/p/11e2264.log

Ive been trying to start fresh again with using Linux, so I decided to utilize my laptop for the deed.

It can very much handle the base CachyOS Hyprland with noctalia, but after one day of use I decided I sort of hate Noctalia and how it "feels" in lack of better word, so I decided to obtain Caelestia after randomly coming across a video of it.

After too much trouble (my ass is basically below computer noob status) trying to get the damn thing installer, I finally seemed to get it, but I've been taken to a grey screen with not every key bond working. From all the video of a "fresh caelestia install" this is not what shows up at first. Did I do something wrong?

It might be better if I just deal with using base CachyOS Noctalia I feel.

Eu tenho um Samsung Galaxy book2 e fui tentar instalar o cachyos porém da esse erro toda vez que tento inicializar, sou bem iniciante sobre Linux e quero ajuda para apenas rodar meu sistema

Im a new user in linux (3 months untill i installed it) and ive got this problem since a few updates. at first it was happening when having to many applications opened, the screen frozened and stop responding so froced shut down was necessary. but with 7.2.9-2-cachyos version it froze just by opening steam. i tried to use GPT to solve it but it mentions that corruption was detected in an internal kernel memory list, so im scared.

As i mention, im new with all of this and im not really sure if ive broke something or if it does not have a solution so please help me.

My specs are this:

Software and drivers

After updating to Plasma 6.8.0 I noticed that when HDR is enabled the screen flickers between cool and warm tones when switching from desktop to applications. The only fix for now is to disable HDR, however it also seems leaving the dock to always show keeps it consistent too, full screening any media will go back to the flicker though. This was also the case when 6.7.0 came out too. I'm sure 6.8.1 will fix it.

(please note that it may take a while until I can change this flair to SOLVED, assuming that the solution is actually found soon, as it will take quite a while for us to actually be able to test out any of the solutions)

My friend has two monitors. The one he is experiencing issues with is an "LG ULTRAGEAR+ OLED UW 3440 x 1440". I found this post which seems to talk about the same (or at least a similar) issue, however it didn't help. He does use a display port which the post said was best, however the "Adaptive sync" option wasn't something we were able to find in the settings.

If it is of any relevance, he has a AMD Ryzen 9 7950X CPU, and a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 GPU. If any more information is required then please tell me and I'll make sure that it's provided as soon as possible. Note though that it unfortunately might take a while until I'm able to actually come back with the details.

Thanks in advance!

Im building a new pc next month and I'm planning on leaving windows after being on it my whole life, I know linux is a lot of terminal but I was wondering how do you keep applications updated? do they auto update, is there a central place to update everything all at once, or do you have to manually update everything. Also I keep seeing a million different types of proton, what is the differences and if I go with one which isn't built into steam how do I keep it updated (this probably sounds so stupid but I have never used linux before).

If you have both CachyOS and Windows on your PC and you have set up secure boot for CachyOS following the wiki, and you go back to windows and play a game that has secure boot requirements such as Call of Duty, Battlefield 6 or whatever, is there any risk of getting banned due to the custom setup of secure boot for CachyOS?

Updating now. Hopefully it's good!

Specs:
CPU: Amd Ryzen 7800x3d
GPU: RTX 4080 super
Mobo: Tuf Gaming B650-Plus

First I used Rufus to put the ISO on a usb. I managed to install it on my laptop so I know the USB and ISO work.

Then I had trouble on my main PC so I used Google AI. I have secure boot off, UFEI variable protection off, CSM on or off I tried both, and fast boot disabled.

I eventually tried using Ventoy which let me get further than before.

I’ve had AI tell me the USB is losing power for a second when booting because of MOBO settings or something and I ran into other errors. I used the suggestions from AI to make some changes to my Bios and it let me get further along the install process.

Now I can get into my BIOS, boot from the USB, select the Ventoy install in normal mode, and edit the params of the CachyOS install to use:
modprobe.blacklist=amdgpu nomodeset
amdgpu.modeset=0
I had to use this otherwise it would try to use my integrated graphics and I wouldn’t even reach the option to select install cachyos, it would just black screen.

Also tried with copytoram=auto removed, and acpi=off included. In many combinations of including these args or not.

I have always used USB ports directly on the Mobo, both USB 2 and 3 slots.

From this point look at the image I included. It reaches this point and then never progresses.

I am at my wits end. I would like to begin my move away from Windows but this is making it extremely hard.

I am a CS grad and software developer. I have some idea of what I’m doing but I’ve never learned anything about BIOS settings or how that relates to reading drives.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

My system has started to lock me out suddenly with screen going black multiple times and sometimes "crashes" and only shows black screen with blinking cursor. Kernel is 7.2.6-1-cachyos. I have no idea how to solve this.

Last time this happened was when I closed KDE screenshot application.

My Cachy-update has not been working recently, and similarly my arch updating has been slow recently and has had updates fail.

I keep getting this message when I try to use Cachy-Update it gives me this error message.

Upgrading packages via CachyOS Hello works though.

Help would be appreciated.

Since a few days i am not able to update/download AUR packages through my terminal. I am not able to access the AUR-Website. It says "Secure connection failed".

I get this Error all the time in my terminal:
1 error occurred: request failed: Get "https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc?arg=EXAMPLE&by=name-desc&type=search&v=5": EOF

Is this known? Is there a possible fix? What causes this?

Hello, I recently haggled down a nice ThinkPad for my office use and at first installed CachyOS with XFCE on it but decided to switch to KDE. I'm noticing a lot of RAM usage on my 4GB RAM despite only having a single browser tab with my online class - btop results in second image

Any way to improve or fix? Any help is appreciated

Guys help I updated last night, played for an hour and shut off my system and now it won't run 😭😭😭

Specifically its yoga slim 7x

Was hoping someone had an idea since if I can’t get my fans working I’ll have to switch back to windows. My CPU hits 101 playing light games. Running sensors in CLI doesn’t detect any fans, tried this old project called ExtremeCooling4Linux but I couldn’t get the program to launch. Tried installing LenovoLegionLinux-git and still couldn’t detect fans. Wasn’t able to get the fans detected in lact, corectrl, fancontrol, and coolercontrol. New to Linux and I’m at a loss on what else I can try here. If there’s some way to force the fans to always be running at high I’d take that lol.

Just got the Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 XT Nitro, that was the last big piece to this build, now just waiting for the PSU cables to arrive tomorrow. I’ve been dreaming of using CachyOS for months now. The time is tomorrow and I’ll be one of YOU!

ROG Strix x870E-E R2/USBC
Ryzen 9 9950X3D2
Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 XT Nitro
Samsung 9100 PRO 4TB (boot drive)

The excitement is overwhelming. Saying goodbye to Windows and jumping head first into Linux.

Does anyone recommend against dual booting?

I use CachyOS on my desktop and I love it. Definitely the best distro I have used so far in my opinion. But my laptop is still running Windows 11.

I kept Windows on it for certain software I need to use for university that aren’t natively supported on Linux (autodesk apps for example). My laptop is mainly for uni work, so I can’t really get rid of Windows.

I am considering dual booting it with CachyOS so I can have the best of both worlds: an OS I enjoy using day to day and Windows as a backup for any software.

However I’ve read on pages like CachyOS wiki that, when dual booting, Windows updates can break the bootloader. Also my laptop only has a single 512GB SSD, so ideally not the amount of storage I would like.

Is it worth the hassle installing CachyOS or should I just leave my laptop as it is?

Thanks

I have been using CachyOS for 70 days now, and I am really impressed.

I use WhatsApp a lot, but have hated using the web client because a separate window is so much easier to monitor. I have used the dedicated client Whatsie and it has been great, but it really eats through RAM. I had a Whatsie session running at 4GB of RAM, when my Firefox session with 8 tabs only needed 3.5GB. I decided to try something else...

Zapfast does mostly the same as Whatsie but is only using 200mb of RAM. I had to compile it for CachyOS, but the time spent was well worth it. Would recommend.

https://github.com/crmne/zapfast

I recently shifted back from fedora to cachyos and i see that my wired earphone connect sometimes or sometimes they dont ( i had this problem before too with cachyos i dont exactly remember how it was solved but used claude to do it most probably (it just hallucinates most of the times ). I am looking for anyone with this problem or has solved this problem before ?
what i have tried
tried restarting, tried logout and log back in, tried restarting pipewire , wireplumber
all the things i have tried have mixed outcome. sometimes they are working sometimes they dont.
i was hoping anyone can help me with that . THANKS

can someone help me understand the log? i think it has something to do with the partitions?

thank you for the help <3

LOG: https://paste.cachyos.org/p/8b2c09e.log