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Idk for sure, but this theory seems far-fetched to me. Why would it put a gamepad to sleep at all? Why would putting the gamepad HID device to sleep affect the keyboard HID device? Why wouldn't the same thing happen on Windows?
Btw, just for my curiosity, what extra feature does this keyboard have that might make it show up as gamepad as well? Does it have an analog stick on it or what's going on here?
it doesn't have any bell or whistle that should make it show up as a gamepad, tbh to me it seems like a dev covering one too many bases or something because there really isn't any reason for it
Btw I just googled USB power management, and on Linux the default USB "autosuspend" seems to be 2 seconds. So it going into power safe mode after half an hour seems unlikely.
fingers crossed but I think I may of fixed it, i went through its old firmware updates and found the oldest before any mention of a "game mode" and it seems to function properly now for some reason
also when i use lsusb it just reads as a keyboard now instead of a gamepad