MSI Claw A8 and Z2 Extreme support

Issues & Assistance
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A few days ago, I tried installing CachyOS on my new MSI Claw A8 with the Z2 Extreme, but the buttons weren’t working properly. Does anyone know of an easy way to map them, or is it better to wait for support?

Does the Ryzen Z2 Extreme already have good support in CachyOS?

​Many thanks to the team for the fantastic work they do.

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yeah, it seems the fault is in inputplumber configuration, hope this will be sorted out soon, since i want to use CachyOS as well

also do check this issue in github as well

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if you still want to use Cachy OS on Claw A8, i just discovered some workaround (until official support, hopely) you can check on my issue in the github @Fabian_Moya

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Any updates on the official support for the A8? Bazzite works out of the box, but I would be curious to use CachyOS instead

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not yet i believe, because we still lack of MSI (i think it’s wmi) driver for now
but, i’ve been using cachy on my A8 since last november

it just you need to do what i’ve posted earlier, that’s all

on another note, if valve have the driver for MSI wmi, i think we can have official support on here as well
inputplumber is stuck as well, due msi driver

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Got it, thanks for the info! The known issues and using bazzite kernel are enough for me to stay on bazzite for now.

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Are you aware if they ever pushed an update to fix these issues on the A8?

Bazzite has WiFi issues that remain unfixed, so I’m considering the switch to Cachy. Thanks!

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hello, welcome to the forums ~

as per today, there is not yet update about this
what we lack is the only MSI WMI driver AFAIK (which is no available anywhere, unless someone did working on it / even the MSI did), which is the input problem
even with bazzite kernel, it’s using a workaround + HHD to reliable making the input working

and sofar i have no issue with cachyos + bazzite kernel, on my end

here is some of issue if you want to follow up the progress

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Has there been any update with Cachyos on the claw A8, I haven’t tried the newest distro, still using Bazzite but the sd card and sleep bugs are becoming quite annoying.

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unfortunately no, you can still go with cachyos + bazzite kernel tho ?
it’s been smooth sailing for me even now, though yeah you might need to tweak a bit, like installing hhd and stuff

until we got news from inputplumber OR there is MSI Claw driver, we’re stuck (even i want to try using cachy kernel 7 on my claw XD)

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Is there sd card issues running cachyos with the bazzite kernal? Is there a power button issue still?

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as for SD card, no there isn’t

and for power button, i forget with default ones, but i modify my power button to “hibernate” and it’s doing it’s job without any much problem (the button)

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So the sleep wake function works with a micro sd card? It locks up on Bazzite.

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i’m using microsd (my games some in there)
if it won’t detected when the os boot from hibernate / sleep
i can just remount the sdcard, and problem fixed