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# To do (Steam Machine edition)
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## In progress (2026-09-27)
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1. **Finish the running build** (`f663ce8`+) on the Steam Machine
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(`~/projects/steammachine-cachyos-live-iso`, log `~/projects/iso-build.log`;
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the harmless `chown: missing operand` error at the end is expected).
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2. **Test install in the ISO VM** (`~/projects/iso-vm`): power it off, delete
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`disk.qcow2` and `vars.fd` (run.sh recreates them), point `cachyos.iso` at
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the new ISO, `run.sh install --fremont` as a user unit. Check:
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- Hello's Install opens Calamares without the "testing ISO" message
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(version-tag = CachyOS release);
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- Calamares starts without the manual Boost fix;
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- the "Setting up the Steam Machine (Steamify)" step runs;
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- after reboot: `/var/log/steamify-install.log` (every component OK,
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`exit: 0`), SDDM autologin into gamescope (black/looping in the VM is
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expected; Ctrl+Alt+F3 for a console), first desktop login: Vapor layout,
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single user's launcher, the app next to Hello.
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Likely problem: in the chroot `uname -r` is the live kernel, so the LED
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module load/check in `machine_enable` may fail although DKMS built for the
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installed kernel. Make those checks tolerate a different running kernel.
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3. **Steamify PR**: `feat/defaults-mode` (2.6.0, `b948c20`) in
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steamify-cachyos, pushed but no PR yet. Open it once the install test
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passes; the user merges (never commit to main).
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4. **Test on the real Steam Machine** from a USB stick (gamescope, LEDs, CEC,
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power-off) before calling the ISO usable.
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## Later
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- **Power-off fix in the live session.** Without it the Steam Machine starts
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again right after shutting down from the live ISO. Build
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`steamify-fremont-poweroff.ko` in `steamify-prepare.sh` against the headers
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of the ISO's kernel, put it in `airootfs/usr/lib/modules/<version>/extra`
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and run depmod (small); or ship DKMS packages from a local repo (~250 MB of
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headers on the ISO). Later maybe the CEC and LED drivers the same way.
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- **Vapor theme in the live session.** Add `cachyos-vapor` to
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`packages_desktop.x86_64` and set it as the live user's look and feel in
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`airootfs/etc/skel` (kdeglobals `LookAndFeelPackage`, no layout file, so
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Plasma lays out Vapor at the live login).
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- **Steamify options in the installer**: a Calamares page (netinstall-style
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YAML or QML) listing Steamify's options; pass the ticked ids to
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`steamify.sh --backend apply <ids>` instead of `--defaults`.
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- **Branding**: name the ISO file and live session "Steam Machine CachyOS"
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(not plain `cachyos-*.iso`); check with the CachyOS team.
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- **Release**: a CI job that builds the ISO (privileged container, flags from
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the steam-machine-iso skill) and hosts it (>2 GB, not a GitHub release asset).
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- **Drop the Boost 1.91 workaround** in `steamify-prepare.sh` once
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`cachyos-calamares-next` is rebuilt against the repos' Boost.
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Build and test details: the `steam-machine-iso` skill in steamify-cachyos-dev.
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