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  • GPU Driver Not Recognised on Wayland (and previously, not X either). (2026/11/01 21:39)
    For full context, I am using BigLinux which is based on Manjaro. I have tried their support forums but it is incredibly inactive. I know this is probably not the greatest place but I would like to figure out what went wrong and what I can do. I figured, given that it is based on Manjaro, this would be the second best place to ask for tech support. I'll provide as much technical information as I can and know how to. --- Now to the meat - the actual issue. Issue: System, when using Wayland, defaults to llvmpipe and software (such as OBS) default onto Software Rendering. What I have tried: On OBS's end: Reinstalling the flatpak entirely and doing a `flatpak update` to try and refresh things. On Renderer end: Tried using another Renderer (X11) - initially, this did not work until I check hwmd.conf - this was fixed by adding module paths to "/usr/lib/nvidia/xorg" and "/usr/lib/xorg/modules". X11 began working but this would not fix Wayland. Tried reinstalling drivers outright. This failed. Tried adding to /etc/default/grub/ the following, with no results: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nvidia_drm.modeset=1 nvidia_drm.fbdev=1 ... --- Information: Command nvidia-smi returns: +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 615.71.09 KMD Version: 615.71.09 CUDA UMD Version: 13.4 | +-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+ | GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC | | Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. | | | | MIG M. | |=========================================+========================+======================| | 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 ... Off | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A | | 29% 32C P8 11W / 175W | 83MiB / 8192MiB | 0% Default | | | | N/A | +-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Processes: | | GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory | | ID ID Usage | |=========================================================================================| | 0 N/A N/A 2060 G /usr/lib/Xorg 22MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 3108 G /usr/sbin/kwin_wayland 1MiB | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Command glxinfo -B | grep -E "OpenGL vendor|OpenGL renderer|OpenGL version" returned, on multiple occassions after trying every attempted fix: OpenGL vendor string: Mesa OpenGL renderer string: llvmpipe (LLVM 23.1.1, 256 bits) OpenGL version string: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 26.2.4-arch1.1 Command lspci -k -d ::03xx returns: 00:02.0 Display controller: Intel Corporation Raptor Lake-S GT1 [UHD Graphics 770] (rev 04) DeviceName: Onboard - Video Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 7d98 Kernel driver in use: i915 Kernel modules: i915, xe 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU106 [GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER] (rev a1) Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation TU106 [GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER] Kernel driver in use: nvidia Kernel modules: nouveau, nova_core, nvidia_drm, nvidia If I'm correct about this `glxinfo` return, this means that the kernel driver is registered as nvidia, yet the renderer is using llvmpipe. echo $LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE returns nothing / is not set. This may suggest a configuration or distro support issue, if I'm correct. --- I hope this is a satisfactory amount of information and I hope that I can find help here for the issue. If this was the wrong place to find support, please feel free to redirect me to a subreddit that is more suitable for this kind of request. Thank you for your patience, -Effie submitted by /u/IneffableParadise [link] [comments]
  • This is how a system should be. (2026/10/31 01:32)
    Receive the update. Install it. Restart the computer. Continue working Many thanks to Manjaro and the KDE team (and thank you to Arch Linux users for testing and reporting bugs). submitted by /u/ExaHamza [link] [comments]
  • Daily Updates (2026/10/30 13:18)
    I am using Manjaro Stable, Plasma KDE. And yet, for about two months now, it gets daily updates. And I mean daily. And the bigger issue is that these updates have started eating up space like a mad racoon in a trash bin. Even if I do clean up. Anyone know why this is happening? How I can stop it? Again, I am on the Stable release. Not the Unstable or Test one. pacman-mirrors --get-branch stable submitted by /u/Vladraconis [link] [comments]
  • [Stable Update] 2026-10-28 - Plasma 6.75, GNOME 50.5, COSMIC 1.9.0 - Stable Updates (2026/10/28 23:07)
    submitted by /u/klevahh [link] [comments]
  • Is there a way to install the base version of Manjaro without a desktop environment? (2026/10/28 18:33)
    submitted by /u/danthe100 [link] [comments]
  • How to Get Manjaro on Ipad 11 (2026/10/28 18:26)
    I hate the software of the ios os and want to make it more like a pc since I just play osrs and it can run on any toster so I am wodering how to get it on the Ipad 11? Any tips are appeeciated. -Kind Regards submitted by /u/Khanedgy_ [link] [comments]
  • An apparently controversial opinion, but it's not: software isn't tested enough, which is why Manjaro is the best. (2026/10/28 03:36)
    When Plasma 6.7 was released, the Plasma team immediately released a bug-fixing version, and the same happened with 6.8. In both versions, the team highlighted that those bugs weren't reported during the testing phases, but there were many bugs (read here and here) . And it's not their fault; Linux doesn't offer easy ways to test beta versions, co-maintain a stable environment, or easily revert to it in case of bugs in the test version. No distro has beta versions in its stable repositories (it would be a contradiction, I know). Arch, for example, has an unstable repository, but it's only used for stable upstream versions that are still being tested on Arch, and many users don't enable that repository. When these versions arrive in the stable Arch repository, many bugs are detected; for example, there are many bug reports from Arch and Cachy users. Manjaro is in a privileged position since those users serve as testbeds, and the software arrives in Manjaro already reasonably mature without needing to wait six months or two years. submitted by /u/ExaHamza [link] [comments]
  • Manjaro is now my new BFF (2026/10/26 15:06)
    ​ So most of my life, for the past 23 years or so, I have been using Windows. And it has worked fine for me. Most of the programs, most of the things I was familiar with, work on Windows. But as I later learned, Linux though is quite hard to learn for a Windows user, is *super customisable* and there are several features which are just not available on Windows. 💻 Windows time by time uses more RAM, more resources, and more processes on each login compared to Linux which barely uses anything. ⚡ I first used *Linux Mint* some 1-2 years ago. Before that, I had installed *Ubuntu* from a free CD that came with my UPS back in 2009 😅 - and that completely wiped out my system. That was not a good experience at all. Now, I bought a new refurbished laptop, a *Lenovo T14 Gen 1* and Windows 11 came with it. Even the LTSC experience was not that compatible because I only had 8GB single channel RAM and it was not working that well with my Ryzen CPU. I am in the process of buying RAM but it's quite pricey these days. So I started thinking about installing some version of Linux. I started with Android distros like *Prime OS, Fyde OS*, even *Chrome OS Flex*... but none of them were compatible with my system. Sometimes Wi-Fi didn't work, sometimes the mic settings were off - actually the microphone didn't work on any of them. 🎙️❌ As I searched, even with AI and ChatGPT, it told me there were certain reports that *Manjaro worked completely fine* with my system and even the microphone was working perfectly. So I took the risk and installed Manjaro. I had several problems at first. I was not able to configure how to use a file manager, the toolbar was not that great in Dolphin, even on PCMan File Manager - I tried so many of them but none worked quite well. As I had a habit of using the *GUI rather than Command Line*, I was having some issues. 🤯 I tried and tried and almost 15-16 days passed with me trying daily and messing things up and then recovering them. But eventually, I started to like it! The processes are very few on startup, the battery life is quite good 🔋 and after installing things, I am thinking of using CPU or TLP to further boost the battery life. And I think Linux is quite capable, Manjaro is quite capable of doing that. *So I am loving it. I just love my Manjaro desktop!* ❤️🐧 Hope you will also have a great experience with it. So welcome, congrats - I am also now a part of the Manjaro family! 🙌 submitted by /u/truerulerJR [link] [comments]
  • Is it me or has Manjaro Linux been memory leaking lately? (2026/10/25 21:58)
    I dont know if its KDE or manjaro, but I noticed that some processes like kioworker, discover and even sometimes dolphin taking like 4GB of ram. My 16GB seem to run out with just VS Code and a few brave tabs and dolphin. Anyone else? Is there a fix? submitted by /u/Distinct_Switch_874 [link] [comments]
  • Stable updates 26.1 recent 6 weeks (2026/10/23 13:17)
    As of today the last stable update was Sept. the 7th. Comparing to my long-run observations it is quite long time period of silence in terms of stable updates. I am not used to this pattern of Manjaro stable branch behavior. Is my feeling right, if yes where are the reasons? Latest PHP updates is quite separate story. submitted by /u/Biyeuy [link] [comments]
  • I'm an active user, is Manjaro still alive? (2026/10/22 13:02)
    I don't really follow what's going on, but there hasn't been even security updates in a long time. Meanwhile we're in the bugpocalypse and every day there's some major new vulnerability announced in pretty core libraries. I've loved Manjaro for years, even through all their weirdness. But I'm getting worried that maybe it's over now? submitted by /u/tansreer [link] [comments]
  • Mhwd’s great mystery: is it me, or mhwd? (2026/10/21 03:46)
    I've been using it to install NVIDIA drivers on NVIDIA-equipped machines for years, and somehow I still never know which driver version I’m going to end up with. Yes, I know mhwd works with hardware profiles, not individual drivers. I get the concept. But surely it wouldn’t hurt to tell users which actual driver version is hiding under the hood of a profile? Case in point: I've got an old GTX 970 lying around (bless its 3.5GB+0.5GB heart). I run mhwd -l and get a list of profile names - video-nvidia, video-nvidia-470xx, etc. - and absolutely zero indication of: which one actually targets Maxwell-era cards properly, what driver version number I’ll end up with once it’s done, or whether “the latest profile” is even still appropriate for a card this old (spoiler: NVIDIA's own 580.x branch is the last one that supports Maxwell/Pascal/Volta at all — after that it’s legacy-only forever). So I'm sitting there doing the actual detective work myself — checking NVIDIA's support matrix on the side, then crossing my fingers that mhwd’s profile mapping agrees with what I just read — instead of the tool just telling me "hey, for this GPU, here’s profile X, which installs driver version Y, and by the way it's EOL in N releases." A simple mhwd -li with the resolved package/driver version next to each profile name would save me this little ritual I’ve apparently been doing for over a decade without ever questioning it. The graphical panel doesn’t give you much more either — the video-nvidia profile entry is just as sparse there. So: how do you all deal with this when installing on your own NVIDIA cards? Have you just gotten used to mhwd’s minimalist way of telling you (almost) nothing, do you handle it differently (manual pacman, checking NVIDIA’s site first, something else entirely), or is it maybe time to throw a few ideas at the devs? Am I missing something obvious here, or have I been using mhwd wrong for 12 years straight? submitted by /u/enomad51 [link] [comments]
  • I distrohoped, again. (2026/10/20 09:31)
    I was feeling bored and had wanted to try something new for a long time, especially since my HTPC had a setup architected with LLM assistance and I was afraid to mess with it, which I needed to overcome with autonomous and unassisted recreation. I've always been fascinated by CachyOS's reputation and its optimizations. But I didn't want to immerse my HTPC in it, so I tested it on my laptop. The installation was manual, as I always do with any distro. My laptop has an x86v4 CPU and I enabled those repositories with the official script, finished the installation and had a terrible day. I tried to keep it running, but Plasma was slow, clicking on various configuration windows took 3 to 5 seconds to open, and there were a few other bugs here and there. In the end, I didn't have a better experience and went back to Manjaro Testing with a manual installation (as always) and things went well again. So I just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who makes Manjaro possible. NOTE: This post is in appreciation of Manjaro; my bad experience with CachyOS is entirely my own responsibility. I believe the CachyOS team did an excellent job, which is why I appreciate their efforts and why I wanted to try CachyOS. submitted by /u/ExaHamza [link] [comments]
  • Reorganisation is underway (2026/10/18 04:18)
    GNOME daily ISOs are back! There was testing update a few days ago. As for Stable, we're still like… submitted by /u/enomad51 [link] [comments]
  • creating a local Linux repository (2026/10/12 11:39)
    I need to create a local repository on the Majaro distribution, and I need to make the commands and help understandable. How do I do this step by step? Please help. submitted by /u/Impossible-Smoke3357 [link] [comments]
  • I found an old HP Probook in my stuff, new member of the Linux family (2026/10/10 05:20)
    submitted by /u/planiras [link] [comments]
  • Waydroid with weston error (XFCE) (2026/10/08 16:09)
    sorry for the image i couldnt copy it its running in weston but not launching submitted by /u/Minosaurus-Prime [link] [comments]
  • A year away from updates: how would YOU survive the big update? (2026/10/08 14:02)
    Recently I visited my family and found they are still using computer with Manjaro on it. No big surprise, since I installed it a couple of years ago. The box had been sitting untouched for about a year, so as you can imagine, the list of updates was huge. I didn't have enough time to start update, but usually big updates don't scary me. I click here, click there, fix the package signing keys if something goes wrong. I generally don't pay much attention to it. It's just routine. But I wonder, maybe there's another way to do it? Do you update straight away with pacman -Syyu, or do you do something first? I've heard whispers about refreshing the keyring (manjaro-keyring, archlinux-keyring) before anything else. Mirrors: do you run pacman-mirrors --fasttrack first, or just trust the defaults? Update announcements: is it worth going through the stable update threads from the last six months to check for manual interventions I might have missed? Safety net: I'm planning a Timeshift snapshot (maybe a Btrfs one) first. Anything else you'd back up? GUI vs terminal: Pamac or the terminal for a monster update like this? I suspect the terminal, but maybe I'm living under the rock. 😉 And the fun part: what's the longest gap you've ever had between updates, and did Manjaro survive it? Extra points for dramatic "black screen after reboot" stories with a happy ending. 🏆 submitted by /u/enomad51 [link] [comments]
  • Can't install Orion beta on Manjaro Linux (2026/10/05 16:09)
    submitted by /u/Odd_Beginning8678 [link] [comments]
  • Latest .iso can't be made into usb boot? (2026/10/03 13:15)
    submitted by /u/blimpofdoom [link] [comments]
  • So, what's next for Manjaro? (2026/10/03 08:29)
    It's getting a bit confusing to keep track of what's going on with the distro, so i would appreciate some info from people who know more than me. - The last stable update had this note in the forum post: This also sets Manjaro Linux into a frozen state for a while until we have finished migrating our Gitlab Instance over to a new Forgejo Instance. Anyone knows how this is going? There have been no new package updates on the Stable and Testing branches for almost a month now. I assume this is connected to the migration. Is there any ETA on that? I haven't been able to find any more info. - Phil M. has been posting this on all the recent update posts: Note: I’ve super limited time to do Manjaro these days. So expect delayed response from me or none at all … Is that a reason for concern? I mean, is it even safe to use Manjaro right now? A declaration like this coming from (who I suppose is) the lead developer doesn't exactly inspire confidence. - A couple of days ago, there was some new development on the Manjaro 2.0 Manifesto thread. It looks promising, but I'm still not sure what exactly it means for the distro and if/how it's connected with the previous two points. submitted by /u/smjsmok [link] [comments]
  • Arch Linux vs another arch based distros (2026/09/29 23:04)
    submitted by /u/Amansour2022 [link] [comments]
  • krfb (vnc) Desktop Sharing broken in latest update (2026/09/28 21:35)
    Posting here in case someone else searching might find it more easily and with less troubleshooting than it took me. The current version of krfb (KDE's built-in Desktop Sharing VNC server application) is broken. It refuses to bind to ports. Any clients attempting to connect will be rejected because the destination will not be listening. Here's a thread about it I found: https://discuss.kde.org/t/krfb-on-wayland-never-opens-a-vnc-listening-port/50054/5 Which below links to bug reports: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524610 You can downgrade the package to the previous version from your local package cache: pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/krfb-26.04.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst You can ignore the 26.8.0 version that has this bug. Reportedly 26.8.1 (which Manjaro repos don't have yet) still has this bug. EDIT: It's not just with the Wayland binding. It's also (as in my case) while in an x11 session. submitted by /u/konsyr [link] [comments]
  • I finally "fixed" Conky for GNOME Wayland (Native Desktop Pinning) (2026/09/27 16:03)
    submitted by /u/No_Today2062 [link] [comments]
  • I got a sound problem, (2026/09/26 23:19)
    So I run an MSI thin gf63, currently my speakers don't work, but I should have the drivers for it as my headphones jack works, I don't dual boot, so I only have Linux. The thing happened when I had to force shutdown bc my pc froze and now my speakers have no output, and I'm forced to use external accessories to hear. I have tried installing drivers in VM, didn't work (IDK, I just hoped). McontrolCentre has no settings related to this issue. I have KDE plasma and Hyprland environments. I haven't updated my bios sense I got the laptop (2023) bc I'm too scared to do so bc I never did it and scared to do it. Ask if you need any other information, Does anybody have an idea how to fox it or investigate a solution pls. Thank you everybody that helps. submitted by /u/Agreeable_Top_9218 [link] [comments]
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