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Update Workarounds

Some stuff I stumbled over while updating lately.

Grub Reinstall

In the current setup, where I still boot via traditional BIOS, not UEFI.

grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

2025-04-16 OBS Virtual Camera Broken [SOLVED]

  • OBS 31.0.3 virtual camera was still broken with v4l2loopback-dkms-0.14.
  • OBS 32.0.1 virtual camera now works with v4l2loopback-dkms 0.15.2.

So the following is no longer relevant.

Description of Problem in OBS Forum

Open Bug in Github Bug Tracker

Temporary solution, downgraded to the last available packages in the local pacman cache for now.

# select version 0.13.2-1 for both of these:
pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/v4l2loopback-dkms-0.13.2-1-any.pkg.tar.zst
pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/v4l-utils-1.28.1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

#refresh the module (or you could just reboot and skip these two commands)
rmmod -f v4l2loopback
modprobe v4l2loopback

2025-11-08 LXPanel Tooltips

LXPanel Tooltips are broken because of GTK Bug.

Bug open on Gnome.org for months so far.

Github Bug Tracker

2025-12-01 Discord Crash and Green Stream

Discord Crashed during streaming, and Stream get's sent as green artifact-soup.

Arch Forum Thread

Crash itself was Fixed by Mesa project ~2025-12-10, Discord problem still there.

Freedesktop Bug