before I ask this, I want to make it clear I have never updated Resolve on arch before lol
so to update…we legit just run a system update, and yay will update resolve? it’s just that simple??
i use octopi or cachyos-hello annd there apps/tweaks and system update
Ok, awesome! Using yay to update my system did, in fact, update resolve as well!
I can’t believe how simple it is haha
paru -S davinci-resolve-studio
Yes, we maintain it in the cachyos repository, since the package is really big and some machines have really problems even repacking it. Therefore you only make pacman -Syu and it will come automatically,
Thanks for the official confirmation! This is awesome to know 
i starting to come conclusion that my DaVinci unable to initilize GPU issue is arch or how syste handles things even cosmic detects GPU is on use when starting DaVinci and Compute goes on but it wont switch to dGPU or it is OpenCL issue and i need to run intel side something that is not done yet
tested with Cuda and Cuda tool-kit still same
Can confirm this still works, thank you so much!
I’m using DaVince Resolve 19.1.x (latest is 19.1.4. currently if you don’t want to use the 20 Beta yet) without issues. Here’s how I installed it on a fresh CachyOS installation (keep in mind, I use KDE, Wayland and a nvidia card; in case you have a different set up, it may not work or needs adjustment):
Download the zip archive for Linux from the official website
sudo pacman -S fuse2
Note: I have a nvidia card so I check if those are installed, if not, install these:
sudo pacman -S --needed nvidia-utils opencl-nvidia
Extract the archive you downloaded before and chmod the *.run script within:
sudo chmod +x ~/Downloads/DaVinci_Resolve_Studio_19.1.4_Linux/DaVinci_Resolve_Studio_19.1.4_Linux.run
Now, execute the *.run script as follows:
SKIP_PACKAGE_CHECK=1 ~/Downloads/DaVinci_Resolve_Studio_19.1.4_Linux/DaVinci_Resolve_Studio_19.1.4_Linux.run
Note: In case you may not see a window opening, I had to reset all font sizes to their default size, reboot and the window appeared but this only happened once with an older version. I haven’t had this issue anymore when updating it.
Follow the installation instruction
Once installation is finished:
cd /opt/resolve/libs && sudo mkdir disabled-libraries && sudo mv libglib* libgio* libgmodule* disabled-libraries
Done, should work now.
UI scaling issue (in case things appear too small within DaVinci Resolve, you can check out this):
Open DaVinci → DaVinci Resolve → Preferences → User → UI Display Scale (at the bottom)
Maybe, that helps.
Slightly newer one here - 20.2 starts, but as soon as I enter a project/start a new one, it crashes and I get:
Sep 29 18:38:38 darkWS systemd[1545]: Started DaVinci Resolve - DaVinci Resolve.
Sep 29 18:38:38 darkWS resolve[1926530]: ActCCMessage Already in Table: Code= c005, Mode= 13, Level= 1, CmdKey= -1, Option= 0
Sep 29 18:38:38 darkWS resolve[1926530]: ActCCMessage Already in Table: Code= c006, Mode= 13, Level= 1, CmdKey= -1, Option= 0
Sep 29 18:38:38 darkWS resolve[1926530]: ActCCMessage Already in Table: Code= c007, Mode= 13, Level= 1, CmdKey= -1, Option= 0
Sep 29 18:38:38 darkWS resolve[1926530]: ActCCMessage Already in Table: Code= 2282, Mode= 0, Level= 0, CmdKey= 8, Option= 0
Sep 29 18:38:38 darkWS resolve[1926530]: log4cxx: No appender could be found for logger (BtCommon).
Sep 29 18:38:38 darkWS resolve[1926530]: log4cxx: Please initialize the log4cxx system properly.
Sep 29 18:38:38 darkWS resolve[1926530]: 20.2.0.0013 Linux/Clang x86_64
Sep 29 18:38:38 darkWS resolve[1926530]: Main thread starts: 0D85B000
Sep 29 18:38:38 darkWS resolve[1926530]: log4cxx: setFile(./logs/rollinglog.txt,true) call failed.
Sep 29 18:38:38 darkWS resolve[1926530]: log4cxx: IO Exception : status code = 2
Sep 29 18:38:38 darkWS resolve[1926530]: 0x7fa10d85b000 | Undefined | INFO | 2025-09-29 18:38:38,448 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sep 29 18:38:38 darkWS resolve[1926530]: log4cxx: No output stream or file set for the appender named [RollLogAppender].
Sep 29 18:38:38 darkWS resolve[1926530]: 0x7fa10d85b000 | Undefined | INFO | 2025-09-29 18:38:38,448 | Loaded log config from /home/darkmann/.local/share/DaVinciResolve/configs/log-conf.xml
Sep 29 18:38:38 darkWS resolve[1926530]: 0x7fa10d85b000 | Undefined | INFO | 2025-09-29 18:38:38,448 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sep 29 18:38:38 darkWS resolve[1926530]: qt.qpa.plugin: Could not find the Qt platform plugin "wayland" in ""
Sep 29 18:38:38 darkWS resolve[1926530]: Attribute Qt::AA_ShareOpenGLContexts must be set before QCoreApplication is created.
Sep 29 18:38:39 darkWS kded6[1931]: Registering ":1.1087/StatusNotifierItem" to system tray
Sep 29 18:38:39 darkWS kded6[1931]: Service ":1.1087" unregistered
Sep 29 18:38:39 darkWS kded6[1931]: Registering ":1.1088/StatusNotifierItem" to system tray
Sep 29 18:38:39 darkWS kded6[1931]: Service ":1.1088" unregistered
Sep 29 18:38:39 darkWS kded6[1931]: Registering ":1.1090/StatusNotifierItem" to system tray
Sep 29 18:38:39 darkWS resolve[1926530]: Unknown property letter-spacing
Sep 29 18:38:39 darkWS resolve[1926530]: Unknown property letter-spacing
Sep 29 18:38:40 darkWS resolve[1926530]: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
Sep 29 18:38:41 darkWS VstScanner[1926975]: qt.qpa.plugin: Could not find the Qt platform plugin "wayland" in ""
Sep 29 18:38:41 darkWS kded6[1931]: Service ":1.1090" unregistered
Sep 29 18:38:41 darkWS kded6[1931]: Registering ":1.1091/StatusNotifierItem" to system tray
Sep 29 18:38:41 darkWS kded6[1931]: Service ":1.1091" unregistered
Sep 29 18:38:41 darkWS kded6[1931]: Registering ":1.1092/StatusNotifierItem" to system tray
Sep 29 18:38:41 darkWS kded6[1931]: Service ":1.1092" unregistered
Sep 29 18:38:41 darkWS kded6[1931]: Registering ":1.1093/StatusNotifierItem" to system tray
Sep 29 18:38:44 darkWS resolve[1926530]: QVariant::load: unknown user type with name UiConformerPanelLayout::VectorMap.
Sep 29 18:38:45 darkWS kded6[1931]: Service ":1.1093" unregistered
Sep 29 18:38:45 darkWS resolve[1927082]: qt.qpa.plugin: Could not find the Qt platform plugin "wayland" in ""
Sep 29 18:38:45 darkWS resolve[1927082]: Attribute Qt::AA_ShareOpenGLContexts must be set before QCoreApplication is created.
Sep 29 18:38:45 darkWS resolve[1927082]: UiCss::Parser - Failed to load file ":/Stylesheet/FairlightWidgets"
Sep 29 18:38:47 darkWS systemd[1545]: app-DaVinciResolve@5d70e772e78748349ce99475e7d4d2cb.service: Consumed 6.040s CPU time, 1.4G memory peak.
from journalctl. Any ideas?
My previous way of installing it still works, at least for me. I’m currently using 20.2.1 which is the latest at the time of posting this message.
My journalctl looks like this when I start it:
08.10.25 12:02 systemd Started DaVinci Resolve - DaVinci Resolve.
08.10.25 12:02 resolve ActCCMessage Already in Table: Code= c005, Mode= 13, Level= 1, CmdKey= -1, Option= 0
08.10.25 12:02 resolve ActCCMessage Already in Table: Code= c006, Mode= 13, Level= 1, CmdKey= -1, Option= 0
08.10.25 12:02 resolve ActCCMessage Already in Table: Code= c007, Mode= 13, Level= 1, CmdKey= -1, Option= 0
08.10.25 12:02 resolve ActCCMessage Already in Table: Code= 2282, Mode= 0, Level= 0, CmdKey= 8, Option= 0
08.10.25 12:02 resolve 20.2.1.0006 Linux/Clang x86_64
08.10.25 12:02 resolve Main thread starts: 79C8A000
08.10.25 12:02 resolve 0x7f1e79c8a000 | Undefined | INFO | 2025-10-08 12:02:46,274 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
08.10.25 12:02 resolve 0x7f1e79c8a000 | Undefined | INFO | 2025-10-08 12:02:46,274 | Loaded log config from /home/user/.local/share/DaVinciResolve/configs/log-conf.xml
08.10.25 12:02 resolve 0x7f1e79c8a000 | Undefined | INFO | 2025-10-08 12:02:46,274 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Not sure what’s the problem but comparing it, it could be because it cannot load the log config.
I tried your method, but whenever I click on Edit or Fusion, the program crashes every time.
So, when you open Davinci Resolve like this:
/opt/resolve/bin/resolve
ActCCMessage Already in Table: Code= c005, Mode= 13, Level= 1, CmdKey= -1, Option= 0
ActCCMessage Already in Table: Code= c006, Mode= 13, Level= 1, CmdKey= -1, Option= 0
ActCCMessage Already in Table: Code= c007, Mode= 13, Level= 1, CmdKey= -1, Option= 0
ActCCMessage Already in Table: Code= 2282, Mode= 0, Level= 0, CmdKey= 8, Option= 0
20.2.1.0006 Linux/Clang x86_64
Main thread starts: 31C8A000
0x7f6731c8a000 | Undefined | INFO | 2025-10-16 02:18:20,759 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0x7f6731c8a000 | Undefined | INFO | 2025-10-16 02:18:20,759 | Loaded log config from /home/uksu/.local/share/DaVinciResolve/configs/log-conf.xml
0x7f6731c8a000 | Undefined | INFO | 2025-10-16 02:18:20,759 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FusionScript Server [5225]
This is what I see when I click on edit. No crash. I currently have no option to click on any of the fusion options below it as their all greyed out so I cannot report on that.
I’m the same as you. Have you managed to fix it yet?
Nope, I haven’t 
Do you use an AMD GPU? There’s another thread here, maybe that’s related:
I use Nvidia card.