Linux Issues

A comprehensive list of all the linux issues I've encountered
2025/12/13
The Cursory Journal

This is an attempt to document my linux experience, even though I am perhaps 7 years too late to that. Still, I found myself complaining alot about Windows (which is deserved) and not enough about linux. I decided on this approach for an unbiased list of all the issues I find now on linux with a new (not necessarily bleeding edge) laptop. I think since this laptop is new, I am expected to run into more issues, so this is a worst case scenario, in a sense.

Laptop Keyboard did not work on luks2 decrypt screen

First, I used an external keyboard to login. Then I created a dracut module /etc/dracut.conf.d/keyboard.conf. I found the name of my laptop keyboard drivers and forced them to load early. This was done via force_drivers+=" ${driver_names} ". After this I had to regenerate the initramfs image by running
sudo dracut --regenerate-all

Kernal Failed to Load Nvidia Drivers

This issue was fixed by re-building the nvidia divers by running
sudo akmods --force --rebuild
Then I regenerated the initramfs images by
sudo dracut --regenerate-all --force

Using a kvm crashed the display drivers

This was a unique issue where using a qemu kvm would crash my display drivers. Basically, without any indication, my monitor would hang, and sometimes go black. I could still hear audio, meaning my system was still working.

I fixed this getting the error from journalctl. I found out that the issue was with panel self refresh and so I turned that off by adding amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x10 in GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in my grub file. For me, this was located at /etc/default/grub. After this I generated my grub config by running sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /etc/grub2.cfg