Void Linux

I have installed Void Linux on a Raspberry Pi yesterday, planning to install a bunch of old games as well as DosBox on it.

But after the installation I noticed that nethack wasn't in the arm repos, despite being in the Void x86 and x86_64 repos as well as the arm Raspberry Pi OS repos.

Is there any plan to add nethack in the arm repos of Void Linux?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14067380

Unmasking the hidden gems of Void Linux | Animesh Sahu

I have no idea who manages the repo or anything, but just wondering about when kde6 will make it to the repo if anyone has any idea

Also a good chanco for me to ask about how the repo works lmao

Despite using Linux/Void I still don't know much about it

How do you go about setting up XMonad with XMobar on Void? Installing it via XBPS results in errors about not being able to find the module 'XMonad', and using Cabal fixes that, but leads to XMobar not being able to find my font and uses a pixelated font instead.

In case anyone needs it...

Thought I'd ask here first, then report if it's a bug. Haven't used Nmap on Void before. I installed the latest version available in the repos (7.94). Still, no matter what combo of switches I use, it never shows hostnames. I even tried -R (reverse DNS lookup), it still doesn't report the hostnames. On the other hand, Advanced IP Scanner (Windows) resolves hostnames just fine. Avahi daemon is running, though that shouldn't make a difference as far as I know. Samba is also installed and smbd and nmbd are running just fine.

It's an older PC, a P4 I use as a radio streamer mostly, so the install is x86.

The problem is, audio seems to play back faster. I have it set up to boot up the streaming application after boot (Tuner, about 20 seconds after boot since it uses a spinning IDE HDD, so the rig is slow on boot) and sometimes (rarely) everything will be fine, the playback speed will be fine. But, most of the time, the audio plays back faster. In some rare cases, I've also noticed it can play slower as well. Also, if the audio is fine after Tuner starts and you change radio streams, back to square one, it starts playing the audio faster.

I tried running other applications, like VLC and Audacious to see if the same thing is happening in them. Yep, the same thing. I still haven't tried Winamp with wine.

I still use PulseAudio on that rig. I didn't see a reason to switch since it did it's job, I don't really need anything fancy on it, just a workable audio out was all I needed.

Also, I have no idea when this actually started happening (everything worked fine when I set it up a few years ago, 1.5 or 2 years ago I think) since I haven't used it in a while as a streamer, but I needed to use it now. I thought it might be a kernel/driver bug, so I rolled back a snapshot a few months ago (I think a snapshot that still had some 5.x version of the kernel), and it did kinda work (the fast playback speeds were less sporadic) but it didn't eliminate the problem completely.

Please, tell me what commands to run on this thing, I'll do it and post the output. It uses an onboard audio card, some old Intel card part of the chipset I think. Here is the output from lspci regarding the audio.

Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)

I'm thinking PulseAudio is so outdated now that it causes problems like these on certain chipsets/audio controllers, but I'm not sure. I know I'll have to eventually switch to PipeWire, but I was hoping I could ride the PulseAudio train a little longer.

hi,

when I log in from lightdm to xfce4 the desktop appears with the top panel with clock and sound applet, but then there is a ~5 second delay before the panel continues to load applets and the wallpaper. I've been trying to work out what is causing the delay during xfce4 startup. I've disabled all the auto-start items but the issue remains. Does anybody know how to work out what is causing the system to pause?

Thanks for any help

Fresh Void install: looks like I have an old issue with flacs where songs are interrupted for a second or less. I came from Arch where this bug was fixed after a recent update to some package (maybe pipewire or flac itself?).

I've noticed many Void packages are not in the latest version like on Arch, so maybe I can use a flatpak or other to solve? Thanks for any help on this!

[edit] Looks like the fix is on flac 1.4.2, here the changelogs, Void version is still at 1.3.4

I've "partially solved" the issue using my fav player thru flatpak

Due to driver issues and lack of time and energy to deal with them I've been using first Windows and then Mint for several months. And now I finally switched back to Void, the best Linux distro!

So glad to use up-to-date repos again (not to mention installing software from websites on Windows and using Flatpaks on Mint)!

I believe that we should fill out the community's details a bit more. Specifically, things like a picture (e.g the void logo), as well as rules and other information in the sidebar.

Right now, there is no picture or banner, as well as no established rules or information about this community.

I understand that a sidebar may want to be kept minimal, but especially as this community is less established I believe that some level of guidance is required,

I was searching for the password of the live session "anon".

After trying : admin, root, live, void and anon I give up and search on web for that. Found myself on Reddit with deleted answers.

Well, so I'm posting it here, it will probably be useful to others.

• What is the password for "anon" live session please?

• It's simply voidlinux

• Oh yes, quite silly, thanks buddy.

Voidlinux new iso images released.

I learned about Void recently and really liked some of it's features as a distro (simple packaging system, runit services). Just wanted to hear what others like.

It's not much but it's mine.

Dot files are here: https://codeberg.org/JustineSmithies/river-dotfiles

Replacement for lxappearance in wayland compositors now in voidlinux.

https://github.com/WillPower3309/swayfx 0.2_1 is now available to install through xbps. There is also xbps-src template of swayfx-0.3.

An older photo from back in the day when I was still on Reddit.

Summary of my method of installing Hyprland on Voidlinux.

swayfx - SwayFX: Sway, but with eye candy!

ranger-testing - ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings. Latest commit with built in sixel image previews.

neofetch-testing - A command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+ Latest commit.

Be warned there may be bugs 😉

https://codeberg.org/JustineSmithies/custom-void-packages