gamescope's gaming mode shows a corrupted picture on NVIDIA (NVIDIA bug 5240452), also nested in KDE and in a KWin-only
session. With an NVIDIA GPU the conversion (gaming, boot, single, glyphs) is hidden unless already on, and nvidia takes its
place: Steam installed when missing and started at login on the Plasma desktop (user unit), with the sub-option bigpicture
for Big Picture or the normal window. The kernel parameters and early NVIDIA modules (RTX 20 series or newer) are kept as
part of it. tests/nvidia-test.sh covers the component and the menu rules against a fake GPU.
The power-off fix becomes an opt-out sub-option of Steam Machine
support. The kernel pin is no longer offered: an existing pin (and HDMI
refresh boost, which needs it) is unticked so a normal run removes it.
Components record a feature version on each successful run; installs
with an older version are ticked and updated, and new default
sub-options are ticked where their parent is on.
Kernels >= 7.2 keep the firmware's S4/S5 wake bit on GPIO pin 18, so the
Steam Machine starts again right after powering off. Steam Machine
support now builds a DKMS module (patches/steamify-fremont-poweroff.c)
that clears it before power-off, for every kernel. The kernel pin is no
longer ticked by default. Module sources and patches move to patches/,
embedded by the single-file build.
Steamify CachyOS on the desktop and in the launcher starts the newest app
(in Konsole the first time, while PySide6 still has to be installed); the
terminal menu is Steamify Terminal in the launcher. A shortcut from before
2.0.1 is ticked in the menu, so a normal run replaces it. steamify-app.sh
leaves the shortcut's launcher entry (same id) alone.
Both are sub-options of Steam Machine support now, shown only while it is
ticked. Unticking it unticks them; unticking the kernel pin unticks the
HDMI refresh boost, which only works with the pinned kernel.
The pinned 7.1.6 kernel doesn't read the extra EDID block (HDMI Forum
EEODB) where monitors list their fast modes, and does no HDMI 2.1, so HDMI
displays often stay at 60 Hz. The new menu item reads the display's EDID
over DDC, calculates the highest rate that fits HDMI 2.0 at the desktop
resolution (rounded down to ten, plus the hundred below as a safe option),
tests each step live with a confirmation, and makes the confirmed ones
permanent through drm.edid_firmware (Limine, sdboot-manage or GRUB).
Sub-option of Steam Machine support, ticked along with it: newer CachyOS
kernels make the Steam Machine reboot instead of shutting down. Packages
are kept in /var/cache/steamify/kernel and reinstalled from there; else
pacman's cache, the CachyOS archive or mirror, or PINNED_KERNEL_URL.
"boot into: gamescope (from the next boot)" instead of "turn off: Boot into the desktop instead of gaming mode"; also in the progress line and the Done overview.
- Menu row "Boot into: [gamescope] / desktop" under the conversion; gamescope is the default.
- Desktop: steamify-boot-desktop.service sets the autologin session to Plasma at every boot, before the login manager; switching back and forth keeps working.
- VERSION 0.10.0.
- setup-gamescope-boot.sh renamed to steamify.sh; all references updated.
- Releases publish the bundle as steamify.sh and, for older install commands, setup-gamescope-boot.sh.
- The Steamify shortcut runs steamify.sh.
- Menu item: desktop icon + launcher entry that run the newest release in Konsole.
- Icon: Valve's return icon with a gear (assets/steam-gaming-settings.svg), published with each release.
- Desktop files are written already executable, so Plasma runs them.
- VERSION 0.9.0.
- Greyed out and not tickable unless Valve has a newer BIOS (component_selectable).
- Download, SHA-256 and a fwupd device check (get-details) before the warnings.
- Warning box with a solid block frame (a coloured row of # renders narrower in Konsole); menu Now column aligned.
- Menu item (Fremont only, never preselected) with the current and newest BIOS version.
- Two warnings and two confirmations (y/N, then typing UPDATE); checksum-verified download
of Valve's fremont-hw-support; installed with fwupd, written at the next restart.
- Menu actions: one-off items that are never preselected, re-applied or listed as on/off.
- VERSION in the entry point, shown in the menu header and the bundle.
- CHANGELOG.md with every commit per version (older versions numbered per merged PR).
- README and AGENTS.md updated for the cachyos-vapor theme, the SteamOS extras and the LED driver.
- The leds-valve Makefile builds against uname -r, so every other kernel
(e.g. linux-cachyos-lts) failed: add /etc/dkms/leds-valve-dkms.conf with
MAKE[0]="make KVERSION=${kernelver}". DKMS now builds it for every
installed kernel and rebuilds it on kernel updates.
- ensure-kernel-headers.service installs missing -headers for newly added
kernels at boot, which makes DKMS build the driver for them.
- Console-like power handling on mains power: power button sleeps, no
automatic suspend (journaled powerdevilrc).
- Menu: overview per installed kernel (headers, Steam controller driver,
LED driver built, running kernel) and whether the LEDs are loaded.
- Menu: the selected row's highlight no longer stops after the green x.
- Theme label in the menu: "Vapor look (cachyos-vapor)".
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