also if anyone knows why my keyboard keeps disconnecting every 30 minutes or so
i think about switching to Linux full time instead of just a VM where i pirate, then someone says a basic device doesnt function and i realize im good.
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This is an issue (probably a firmware problem) with that keyboard, not Linux. Someone in this thread said there are review saying it happens on MacOS too, even though the keyboard officially "supports" it.
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For your keyboard problem, try looking at the kernel logs, which you can see by running dmesg. Congratulations for having an exotic af problem I didn't even know could happen.
I don't have high hopes you can fix this honestly, keyboards are like the most standard hardware using the most generic driver, which means your keyboard somehow differs from all other keyboards in some subtle way, and Linux driver just happens to trigger this problem while the Windows driver doesn't. What you could probably do is a workaround, like resetting the USB connection or something like that every so often.
i dunno if this means anything to you but it doesn't seem good
Idk, seems like the device (why is it a identifed as a gamepad?) doesn't respond. I guess in theory it could be the cable/connection, but I assume the thing worked fine in windows? Maybe worth trying to change the cable if that's possible anyway.
I really doubt that the Linux HID or USB drivers are actually at fault/bugged here, they work with thousands of different similar devices totally fine. Maybe that's something that might be fixed by a firmware update?
For a workaround, you might try usbreset. You could (say) write a script that either runs every 15 minutes as a cronjob, or it looks at the logs and triggers automatically when it sees these relevant errors or something like that.
I suspect it's udev issue. Udev is the system responsible for (among other things) identifying hardware and assigning the proper driver to it. It is sometimes necessary to add explicit udev rules for some obscure hardware to force the system to prefer one driver over another, or to recognize some wierd ass USB device would be perfectly happy being treated simply as e.g. a serial device. One somewhat common situation is explicitly telling udev to tread obscure knockoff gamepads as if they were an xbox controller.
I don't think so, it wouldn't even work if it wasn't recognized as keyboard. It probably is recognized as both a keyboard and a gamepad at the same time. Physical USB devices can (and frequently do) present as multiple devices to the host. For example, a keyboard with a scroll wheel will look like be both a keyboard and a mouse.
ive tried two different cables and it works fine in windows
im wondering if it has something to do with it also being recognized as a gamepad?
i found this https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/txwwne/unbinding_subhid_devices/
im wondering if it gets recognized as both a controller and a gamepad and when the "gamepad" logic doesn't see any input it just puts the whole device to sleep? i dunno im so lost
i might just try flashing qmk onto it
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
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its very strange, in linux it never gives me the "usb disconnected message" and all the led lights stay on, it just stops responding
Seeing complaints of the same issue on macos too even though it is explicitly marketed as supporting it.
Supposedly this keyboard supports PS/2 so you could plug it in with a usb-PS/2 adapter if your PC has a PS/2 port and that should fix that problem but you'll lose your rgb or whatever.
As others have said this is probably some enshittification from the manufacturer. Software control center... it's a fucking keyboard... also a lithium battery... why.. keyboards can last decades even wireless ones using AA batteries... this thing is destined to be ewaste.
welcome to linux. only now can your hatred be pure.
Every Linux distro basically runs into the wall that is "all of these little problems require large institutional money to solve" which means that hobbyists and even the professional Linux distro teams like Red Hat stand no chance because they're being compared to Microsoft and Apple. They can get a product that works really well don't get me wrong, but the amount of time and effort to QA at the scale the major companies do for their OSes is on another level.
but the amount of time and effort to QA at the scale the major companies do for their OSes is on another level.
As somebody who uses Windows and iOS daily at work, I assure you these companies are not doing QA anywhere close to this level.
I mean they do both suck in their own special ways, but as a Linux user myself it's still a night and day difference between the level they're at and the level any given Linux distro is at. The only Linux devices that approach the level of "it just works" that MS and Apple devices do are locked down ones like phones, Chromebooks, and the Steam handheld.
2 biggest problems for linux distros are the newest hardware and nvidia cards no? is that what you're referring to here?
I mean in terms of general usability. I switched to Linux like two years ago, at that time I had a mid-tier AMD machine with no brand new parts, and I still had to spend many, many hours troubleshooting issues that I simply wouldn't have had if I was on Windows. Even now I'll unexpectedly hit things that I expect to Just Work and end up spending all day figuring out why they don't.
this has not really been my experience with linux outside of a laptop with an nvidia optimus gpu (shuddering just thinking about it), but i dont really game much on my laptop (desktop still windows cuz of anticheat) so i havent really been doing that much complicated stuff with them outside of self hosting a couple of servers, do you do video editing or something like that?
Which distro??? How did you choose? Have you played with different distros before? What took 14 hrs?
I dual booted Mint a long time ago mostly just to try the whole dual booting thing and to see if I could do it but it never stuck.
This whole thing started yesterday because I saw someone doing some really cool desktop customizations with Plasma(?). So all I really knew was I wanted something with good documentation, is stable, and had kde plasma.
What I didn’t know was how NVIDIA operates as a company and Debians philosophy as an org. I spent a lot of time trying to get nvidia drivers to work the way I need them to on Debian, cuz it turns out I agree with them on a lot of how they think but the support just isn’t there. Nouveau worked great out of the box but trying to run any games properly was a different story.
After that I settled on Fedora KDE, I had some minor issues with their install process which i think were also caused by nvidia, but I managed to solve that and get the drivers sorted pretty quickly.
I used this method to install the nvidia drivers on Debian. I have the driver version 580.105 installed, newer drivers are causing bugs for me. The repository contains pinning packages to stay on a certain driver version.
wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/debian12/x86_64/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb sudo dpkg -i cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb sudo apt update sudo apt install nvidia-driver-pinning-580.105.0 sudo apt update sudo apt install linux-headers-amd64 sudo apt install nvidia-driver
https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/tesla/driver-installation-guide/debian.html
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I switched from Nvidia to AMD for the simple reason that Linux support (out of the box) seems better. Plus AMD just looks (slightly less bad) by virtue of not being like half of the US economy. Oh it also helps that modern AMD cards can actually legit compete with Nvidia cards by now. Or surpass them in some respects like price / money ratio.
I picked a 9060XT 16GB for my recent build because it has good performance and vram capacity for the price, I don't give a shit about ray tracing, the drivers aren't actively hostile, and AMD isn't the primary driver of the AI slop bubble.
I did the exact same thing, and my frame rates in-game have never been better.
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