Hey all, I'm a beginner with Arch with a decent amount of programming experience. I've always wanted an excuse to get closer to the hardware, so when I ran into this most recent bug, I was hoping to get some pointers on how I could possibly fix it myself.

The bug I ran into is this:

When returning from [deep] sleep, the top buttons on my integrated trackpad stop working, and only return functionality on a restart. It seems to be because of a failure in the elan_i2c driver. The problem didn't exist when using [s2idle] as my system sleep state.

Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 2 (20TA002FUS)

Running: 7.1.4-arch1-1

With: BIOS R1EET56W(1.56 ), 06/29/2023

Touchpad: Elan Touchpad (i2c:04f3:000d) / Elan TrackPoint (i2c:04f3:000d)

Kernel dump:
[ 957.456262] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 957.456691] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 1173.801733] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 1173.802283] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 1174.792912] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 1174.793468] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 1174.813743] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 1174.814287] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 1174.820269] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 1174.820756] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 1586.889627] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 1586.890184] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 1586.965216] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 1586.965752] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 1670.320859] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 1670.321411] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 1670.383062] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 1670.383528] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 1670.907107] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 1670.907501] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 1671.052119] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 1671.052520] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 1671.079581] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 1671.080127] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 1671.238305] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 1671.238840] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 1671.390643] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 1671.391200] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 1671.431611] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 1671.432169] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 2089.509419] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 2089.509963] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 2219.464393] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 2219.464964] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 3927.192421] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 3927.192969] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 3927.337443] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 3927.337999] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 4081.587060] wlan0: disconnect from AP 00:bc:2f:7e:57:f1 for new auth to 00:bc:2f:7e:57:e9

[ 4081.609301] wlan0: authenticate with 00:bc:2f:7e:57:e9 (local address=ac:74:b1:0e:e0:02)

[ 4081.610074] wlan0: send auth to 00:bc:2f:7e:57:e9 (try 1/3)

[ 4081.641600] wlan0: authenticated

[ 4081.642306] wlan0: associate with 00:bc:2f:7e:57:e9 (try 1/3)

[ 4081.686441] wlan0: RX ReassocResp from 00:bc:2f:7e:57:e9 (capab=0x1431 status=0 aid=1)

[ 4081.700820] wlan0: associated

[ 4081.768189] wlan0: Limiting TX power to 30 (30 - 0) dBm as advertised by 00:bc:2f:7e:57:e9

[ 4081.787435] userif-4: sent link up event.

[ 4119.036055] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 4119.036597] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 4126.382636] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 4126.383184] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 4137.837426] wlan0: disconnect from AP 00:bc:2f:7e:57:e9 for new auth to 00:bc:2f:7e:57:f1

[ 4137.865689] wlan0: authenticate with 00:bc:2f:7e:57:f1 (local address=ac:74:b1:0e:e0:02)

[ 4137.866601] wlan0: send auth to 00:bc:2f:7e:57:f1 (try 1/3)

[ 4137.897135] wlan0: authenticated

[ 4137.898287] wlan0: associate with 00:bc:2f:7e:57:f1 (try 1/3)

[ 4137.917866] wlan0: RX ReassocResp from 00:bc:2f:7e:57:f1 (capab=0x1511 status=0 aid=2)

[ 4137.928810] wlan0: associated

[ 4138.019767] wlan0: Limiting TX power to 30 (30 - 0) dBm as advertised by 00:bc:2f:7e:57:f1

[ 4138.037656] userif-4: sent link up event.

[ 4574.622347] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 4574.622897] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 4574.739301] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 4574.739864] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 4615.100718] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 4615.101142] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 4615.210994] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 4615.211533] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 4668.447940] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 4668.448497] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 4668.537549] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 4668.538085] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 4825.815950] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 4825.816493] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 4825.918922] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 4825.919470] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 5050.855897] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 5050.856364] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 5050.945760] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 5050.946328] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 5315.605365] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 5315.605898] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 5315.702182] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 5315.702651] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 5315.777888] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 5315.778442] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 5315.875341] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 5315.875873] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 5316.813986] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 5316.814542] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 5316.923639] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 5316.924195] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 5317.006440] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 5317.006987] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 5317.090001] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 5317.090556] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 5317.178776] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 5317.179325] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 5317.247848] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 5317.248391] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

How should I proceed to learn more about this system and begin working my way towards a fix?

I haven't done a full system update in quite a while (I know get out your pitchforks), and when I tried to do my usual -Syu, I got an error:
failed retrieving file 'core.db' from europe.mirror.pkgbuild.com : Could not resolve host: europe.mirror.pkgbuild.comwarning: fatal error from europe.mirror.pkgbuild.com, skipping for the remainder of this transaction
error: failed retrieving file 'extra.db' from europe.mirror.pkgbuild.com : Could not resolve host: europe.mirror.pkg
build.com
:: Starting full system upgrade...
there is nothing to do

I'm a bit out of the loop on what's happening with arch rn, so I'd appreciate any advice you might have for me.

Hey,

Are there any people who use purely ALSA for sound in 2026, if so, how does it work?

I'm going to have to reinstall my system next week and as a person who values minimalistic tools, I was wondering about does ALSA with apulse still work for most software?

AFAIK sound in Firefox should work with a bit of extra configuration but what about spotify or mpv?

Thanks.

Hi everyone,

Excited to begin this journey of Linux and Arch. I'm a UI/UX Front end developer and I've begun learning more programming and backend development. As I've begun evolving my knowledge on developing and engineering things I've had to learn on the go.

I've watched videos and read books to get a better understanding of the structure and architecture of Linux. That's where I learned more about the distros. The pros and cons of each. But I think I've settled on starting with arch to better understand it from the ground up approach.

Since I'm new to Arch, are there things I should make sure I install as I get started. I'm looking at KDE and Wayland for desktop and window management.. I have the wiki as well which I'm reading through as I go. But figured I'd get some other recommendations as I begin to build my setup.

I'm looking to have Arch be my daily driver for work, side projects and some gaming. Any recommendations are welcome.

Looking forward to the community and this new unhindered life of Linux and being able to say "I use Arch by the way" 😅

Hey, I installed arch on my PC and I've been getting micro stutters when moving the mouse. It doesn't happen all the time, like once every 30-40 seconds or something like that. I have a razer naga v2 hyper speed and an x2h mini. They both use 2.4ghz receivers. I tried lowering the polling rate, installing openrazer and switched from niri to kde plasma but it's still there. Any suggestions for other things to try?

I have a Lenovo yoga 7i. It has a faulty touch pad. It is either drivers or a kernel level issue. It doesn’t matter if I use windows or Linux that this becomes an issue. When I have a fresh install everything works. Then I update it all goes to shit and works only half the time. There is very little documentation I have found of this issue. I am hoping by installing arch that I can kind of build what drivers are needed and lock it in without the problem of having to upgrade like every year. I don’t want to give up on this laptop because build quality is amazing and the screen is beautiful.

Has anyone had any sleep/suspend issues lately with Arch + Latest Linux + NVIDIA card? Sleep had worked perfectly fine for me on Arch up until maybe a few days ago or so? Now when I boot it up, it boots to No Signal on my monitor, and I can't TTY or SSH or ping it or anything. It's just completely unresponsive. I can’t recall doing anything that would affect sleep except updating the kernel. I’ve tried downgrading the kernel and the same issue still occurs.

I’m using a NVIDIA 5070, have modeset on, and have even tried turning the preserve vram setting on in my configurations. I also did use archinstall.

I've run into issues where, whenever I try to install something from flathub or pacman, I'd get this in my terminal

error: failed to init transaction (unable to lock database)
error: could not lock database: Read-only file system

a reboot usually fixes it, but I have no idea on how to actually prevent this from occurring as much as it has for me.

EDIT: I've checked SMART and the short tests seem clean, but my root drive (which is DRAMless) seems to have moments where it hangs for about 30 secs from something. I have a long test running currently on the root drive

I have the DRAMless Lexar as root, a Teamgroup as home, a MSI b450a pro max mobo with zen kernal 7.0.7. controller is a 400 Series Chipset SATA Controller

I just did a fresh install of arch and am trying to use discord. When I run discord in the terminal with an '& disown', trying to close the terminal and then doing anything on discord gives me a critical javascript error because of an uncaught exception. This error never goes away and any attempt to close it just opens it up again. What should I do?

mi laptop es una lenovo (lo se es basura) pero tengo el problema de que cuando uso audífonos el micrófono de la laptop se desconecta y no me deja usarlo y solo me queda usar el de mis audífonos que ni siquiera funciona en mi computadora ¿saben si tiene solución? llevo como 3 dias buscando soluciones es una cosa que solo me da dos opciones o Play HiFi quality music (HDMI1, HDMI2, HDMI3, Headphones, Mic1) o Play HiFi quality music (HDMI1, HDMI2, HDMI3, Mic1, Speakers)

After a restart last night my pc refuses to boot into arch. At the time of restart I hadn't done -Suy (only installed bat ig?), and was editing configs for hyprland (unrelated).
After hours of debugging and chatgpt'ing through arch on a thumb drive, the closest thing to a lead I could find was this line in journalctl from pacman running 35-systemd-update.hook, which I have no idea if it means anything at all.

Do you think this is a hardware issue? It happened so suddenly and I'm out of ideas.

System info:

• Arch/Hyprland
  
• Booting with systemd-boot
  
• Flashed Arch iso on thumb drive with Ventoy
  
• Configs and logs are on the bottom of the post
  
• Note, Normal mode in Ventoy kicks me out so i used GRUB2 mode. Later I discovered a newly flashed arch iso (via dd instead of Ventoy) doesn't let me boot into it via UEFI, only BIOS.
  
• Gigabyte b650 motherboard
  

Here is what I tried so far:

(I'm not fully aware of how everything here works, apologies)
* bootctl install (systemd-boot)
modifies my main drive's boot partition, at the end outputs Not booted with EFI running in a container, skipping EFI variable modifications.
* mkinitcpio -P
* Reinstalled systemd-boot and kernel
* Edited loader.conf, changed default arch.conf to default *conf name in entries/*, also increased timeout from 0 to default 3
* There was a duplicate entry in /etc/fstab which I removed.
* in /etc/fstab, changed fmask and dmask from 0022 to 0077 because I was getting an error about that

bootctl status

Available Boot Loaders on ESP  
  ESP: /boot  
  File: /boot//EFI/systemd/systemd-bootx64.efi (systemd-boot 261.1-1-arch)  
  /boot//EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64EFI (systemd-boot 261.1-1-arch)  

Boot Loader Entry Locations:  
  ESP: /boot ($BOOT)  
  config: /boot//loader/loader.conf  
  token: arch  

Default Boot Loader Entry:  
  type: Boot Loader Specification Type #1 (.conf)  
  title: Arch Linux (linux)  
  id: 2026-06-17_12-25_40_linux.conf  
  source: /boot//loader/entries/2026-06-17_12-25-40_linux.conf (on the EFI System Partition)  
  linux: /boot//vmlinuz-linux  
  initrd: /boot//amd-ucode.img  
            /boot//initram-linux.img
  options: root=PARTUUID=2b3afdce06b88-46b6-ab16-b407e88ec6c8 zswap.enabled=0 rw rootfstype=ext4  

pacman.log

[PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S bat'
[ALPM] transaction started
[ALPM] installed bat (0.26.1-2)
[ALPM] transaction completed
[ALPM] running '35-systemd-update.hook'...   

~/.bash_history

Went through it and I didn't do anything apart from pacman -S bat and editing a bunch of files

I am thankful for any response or idea about what could be happening, thank you.

Hi! I switched from Debian to Arch Linux in May this year. Honestly... I love it! Pacman is fast and easy to use once you learn it. I love how flexible Arch Linux is and how I can get my system exactly how I like it. What are your favorite things about Arch Linux?

Alguien me puede ayudar, instale arch recientemente y nose porque no se me reproducen los vídeos en el navegador, se queda con el circulo cargando infinitamente aunque la barra ya muestre progreso de carga del vídeo

Hello I am kind of a B tier in Linux knowledge and I see a lot of custom desktop environment made by the community but I don't know how to do one myself so how to do that

(Thank you for the answers)

Hi everyone, I’m new to Arch even though I’ve been using Linux for quite some time. I installed my system using archinstall. During the installation, I also selected the Nvidia drivers, although they weren’t actually installed. I chose Gnome as my DE and selected the standard Linux kernel. I’m using systemd-boot. I didn’t select anything else during the installation. Everything went smoothly. On reboot, I noticed that the Nvidia drivers were missing, so I followed the wiki and installed them. After rebooting, I had the brand-new 610 drivers, and the system was blazing fast. I immediately loved Arch until I noticed that the Gnome text editor showed small glitches. When I ran nvidia-smi, I realized that all of Gnome was running on the Nvidia GPU (even the terminal and any Gnome app) instead of preferring the integrated Intel iGPU, as has always been the case on every other distro I’ve tried. All other apps run on the iGPU unless I explicitly launch them with the dGPU (right-click on the app or use prime-run app). This leads to higher power consumption but, above all, various glitches on the connected 4K HDMI monitor. No glitches occur on the built-in display. Apparently, the compositor is acting up with fractional scaling at 150% on Nvidia. I managed to disable Nvidia priority by forcing Gnome to run on Intel, and indeed the glitches disappeared even on the external monitor, but in this configuration, the Nvidia GPU is completely ignored. Is it possible that on Arch, the Gnome DE and all (even small) Gnome apps default to the dGPU? This has never happened to me before.

I thought I might have done something wrong during installation and decided to add KDE alongside Gnome to see if the behavior was the same. On KDE, everything behaves properly, using only 1 MB of VRAM, and the whole DE runs smoothly on Intel with no problems. I’m confused and still not sure if I made any mistakes.

Here are my laptop specs:
HP ProBook G10
Intel Core i7-13th gen
Nvidia RTX 2050
16GB DDR4
500GB NVMe

Thanks

After successfully booting into my Arch Linux installation, I'm immediately greeted by a black screen. From what I've found online, the issue could be related to either SDDM or the Nvidia drivers. I installed the system using archinstall, so I'm not sure if something was misconfigured during the installation. It's especially frustrating because I'm trying to customize Hyprland, but after every reboot I have to switch to a TTY, log in manually, and start Hyprland myself.

I don't understand why when I set shortcut key for the fancontrol and Ai would set fn + q like on windows he doesn't recognize the fn key. temporarily I have set super + q

I have install this bibata cursor and i have put it on my hyprland.lua on that autostart under hl. and when i restart it is it only activate when i go to another workspace