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Hello. I am not sure what exactly could have led to this, but after I installed Steam onto a fresh install of Arch Linux [Kernel ver. 6.17.8-arch1-1, KDE Plasma 6.5.2, KWin (Wayland)], I decided to reboot.
After a 2nd boot, the DE is booted at a fixed 1024x768 resolution and a fixed 60Hz refresh rate. I am running Arch off of a 256GB external SSD, and I am using an Intel Core i7-14700F @5.40GHz CPU alongside an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti [Discrete]. Needless to say, my desktop usually runs at a resolution far higher than what it is now.
Running
sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.styielded this result:
http://0x0.st/Kfo1.txt
Before installing Steam, I tinkered around with ricing (kind of) by installing some user-made themes. I later decided that I hated all of the ones I tried and switched back to Breeze Dark. The only change I made was switching from the Breeze login screen to the maya login screen.
In order to install Steam, I installed the latest nvidia-dkms package (I am running both linux and linux-lts). After Steam ran successfully, I installed a game (but did not run it) and shut Arch down.
Today, booting up, the graphical interface did not even load. I looked online and appended the necessary modules to my mkinitcpio.conf and built the initramfs successfully. That didn't work, so I reset my kde-settings.conf to default. That worked and let me start up the DE, but it's now visually stuck in 2013.
If any more information is required, I'd be happy to supply it. Any help is appreciated, thank you!
Last edited by blgk9dev (2025-11-16 19:17:11)
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Damn it, figured it out myself. Didn't have linux-headers installed.
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2013? 1024x768 is more like 2003
but yea, for dkms one need a header package along the kernel as dkms builds a kernel module
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