Setting up 10 button mouse, I've found discussions on using Solaar and Piper, but find out neither supports this mouse. Both these discussions are a bit out of date, so I wanted to ask if there has been updated support for the g502x lightspeed.

Piper won't detect the mouse wirelessly, even. So perhaps the newest version of Solaar. But I read up on it, and it says I need PyPl to download it? This seems bizarre, surely there is a flatpack or something?

Even then, I'm not sure it'll let me use all 10 buttons. I'm told I need piper with a configured ratbag, but then I'd lose wireless option.

If anyone has experience with this, I feel like it's going way over my head. For now I'll mess with PyPl.

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A year ago I bought an rtx 4060ti and I'm wondering if there could be any errors if i connected my old gtx 1650 in the second slot.

The reason for this is that i want to play some games on win11 so I could use the old gpu for the VM and keep the normal one for my current system (linux mint cinnamon if that's important), I don't really know how running 2 gpus at the same time works so I'm afraid they might get switched up or something, are my concerns reasonable?

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I am a linux noob, I recently installed linux mint and when I launch gta v through the heroic launcher it gives me this error back to back

The Rockstar Games Launcher timed out loading both its online and offine content. Please check your connection and try again later. If you continue to have problems, please contact Rockstar Games Customer Support at https://support.rockstargames.com.

I tried closing and opening ipv6 ports etc

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Mac user, Windows gamer, now Linux user/gamer.

It's a lot to give up when it comes to HDR/Atmos. To be fair a lot of games on Windows have awful HDR and for most I can game without but for certain games, it makes all the difference.

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And honestly it's a gorgeous piece of hardware someone was actually going to throw this into a tech recycle pile because it didn't support Windows 11. Offered to take it and they said yes.

I have Steam installed on it and I'm looking for some low end game suggestions. I've found even older games struggle when trying to run them at native res (3000x2000) since I'm working with a combination of a 7th gen i5's Intel HD graphics and a basically 4k screen.

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https://blog.system76.com/post/pop-os-letter-from-our-founder

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Is there any genuine compatibility reason why these anti cheat solutions can't/won't work on Linux or is it purely down to publishers not enabling it for Linux users?

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it says my drivers arent supported or something.

i use crostini but it still worked before an update shortly before.

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Hi y'all! Lawstorant here. I've heard, you like high performance gaming?

Preamble or how I met your signal

As a lot of you are painfully aware, HDMI forum is a bunch of losers that don't want us Linux folk to play with their shiny toys like HDMI 2.1. Shame on them. The always hotly debated topic is the use of active adapter dongles to convert DisplayPort to HDMI 2.1. After all, we're not paying for expensive GPUs to be forced to use 4:2:0 color compression and only 8 bits for bt.2020 color space.

The issue is that the dongles are imperfect. Unstable signal, issues with HDR metedata, getting VRR to work at all, we all know the current pain points. The highly coveted CableMatters adapter (and others based on Synaptics VMM7100) is still a bit of a hit-or-miss. You need to flash specific firmware and you need windows to do so. When you finally set it up, turns out VRR maybe works if your TV supports Freesync over HDMI explicitly, bare HDMI VRR won't work.

Then, you find out that sometimes HDR doesn't trigger properly, you hunt down firmware which someone dumped from another Chinese dongle. HDR is a bit more stable, but for some, after toggling VRR on or off, signal is sometimes lost and needs reconnect or TV restart. It works at 80% but still not there yet, no VRR for all and unstable signal means it's a gamble.

Knight in a shining armor (model 85564, DP134)

Here comes a new challenger. As reported by u/steiNetti in this thread, UGreen semi-recently got into the DisplayPort 1.4 to HDMI 2.1 adapter game and they are bringing in big guns. They claim great stability and even VRR with compatibility for a wide range of hardware. It's like they actually did some testing.

Not thinking much, it was available on german amazon so I bought it (the warehouse is near Szczecin, Poland; next day delivery baby!). He wasn't successful in getting VRR to work but I'm not afraid of getting my hands dirty in kernel code and my good friend was doing a lot of VRR with MST testing a few years ago, so I have my source of help.

The dongle came to my local Urządzenie Paczkomat™, I grabbed it and started testing. First impression was great. No issues with HDR kicking in, no issues with colors and crushed blacks, ALLM, 4k 120 Hz 10 bit HDR works. Signal seems very stable and no weird blackouts. So far so good. Unfortunately... no VRR available

https://preview.redd.it/w9zof7gqwn6g1.png?width=259&format=png&auto=webp&s=a217e22ddcb83f6146d3209c33ff1821cdd003e4

Not so fast! I remembered that AMD has a whitelist for PCONs that are allowed to work with VRR. Probably implemented to make sure the user experience won't be bad but ugh, no easy way of overriding the check but to add the dongle there. I added info prints, got the dongle ID, added it to the whitelist, compiled and rebooted.

https://preview.redd.it/itiu9rc40o6g1.png?width=1241&format=png&auto=webp&s=dd739775548b394a5b28072460b73d741f408980

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Nice. Warms my heart. Tested a bunch with VRR test and games. VRR works perfect nad the VRR flicker is almost gone vs CableMatters dongle. I didn't even thing a dongle could affect that. I created an issue on the amdgpu issue tracker to add this dongle to the whitelist + attached my patch which was sent to amdgfx mailing list as well. You can find the issue here and the patch for this dongle is attached there as well.

Forcing my way in

The work is never done! OP tested with his other TV which supports FreeSync and got the same result, VRR works. Still, his Sony TV only supports HDMI VRR so no dice. Here's the thing though, I noticed that contrary to the CableMatters adapter, my TV doesn't show FreeSync as the VRR mode, it always stays as "VRR". The CableMatters dongle switches form "VRR" to FreeSync while the signal is actually variable (amdgpu always activates VRR on DisplayPort if it's available, it just doesn't adjust the timings until told to do so).

VRR has many names but fundamentally, it's always doing the same thing, and it's implementation is fairly simple. Some old CRT screens can even do VRR because it's just doing variable length back porch before vsync signal. HDMI VRR, Vesa Adaptive Sync, FreeSync, G-Sync compatible (maybe even gsync itself) are pretty much all the same.

https://preview.redd.it/3fxs9n3a1o6g1.png?width=547&format=png&auto=webp&s=6b6684ec46460aa6015a93387cd85d2a1260d844

This gave me an idea. I forced the check for VRR with PCON to always be true, added a hardcoded VRR range since amdgpu doesn't parse the HDMI VRR info from EDID and FreeSync extension block is obviously missing. OP compiled my change aaaaaand...

https://preview.redd.it/bsc58qf8xn6g1.png?width=757&format=png&auto=webp&s=0225c01270cdc48462c83e9999fae038234c308f

Lawstorant you old fox! You did it again. Honestly though, I didn't expect this to work as easily, yay!

A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one

u/steiNetti spotted something else as well. When booting SteamOS 3.9 the PC behaved like Steam Deck and, whaaat, responded to TV remote? Though not advertised on it's Amazon page, the dongle has the CEC pin wired up and actually does HDMI CEC tunneling!

Why is this quite the news? It comes to the gimped HDMI implementations as well. Most, if not all, modern GPUs don't even bother connecting the CEC pin in their native HDMI ports. Weirdly enough, the display core and drivers do support CEC and expose /dev/cec0 device, maybe more. DisplayPort supports omething called CEC Tunneling as well for active adapters (passive adapters that rely on DP++ switch the DP port into native HDMI mode, no tunneling needed but no CEC pin either).

Now, why would we care that much? Because most TVs, even in PC mode, are quite stupid and don't standby/wake up on signal loss/pickup. CEC allows us to control a lot of things, but most importantly turn the TV on/off and switch inputs. This works great with this dongle and turns out to be one of the cheapest and easiest way to get CEC.

The one limitation is wake on command FROM the TV as this need the connected device to react. GPU is asleep, OS is down, it won't work. You can get this functionality with the much more expensive and harder to get Pulse Eight adapter, but it needs quite a bit of setup and, I just don't care? I wake my PC with my Xbox controller. Pulse Eight doesn't support HDMI 2.1 so you'd have to use two HDMI cables either way and it starts to get messy.

Work it, Make it, Do it, Makes CEC

How do we set up CEC then? Funny you should ask. Everything is handled OOTB for us, we just need to talk to the TV. cec-ctl is my weapon of choice. Works great, not many dependencies, reliable. Thing is, the commands still need some know-how and are IMO a bit too convoluted. For that reason, I created cec-toolbox (better readme in the coming days). A simple bash script that makes it even easier to control your TV. Very opinionated and straight to the point. Now controlling your TV is as easy as cec-toolbox on which registers your PC, turns on the TV and switches input.

I'm not stupid though, who want's to do this manually though? For that reason I added a few simple systemd service units that will trigger TV wakeup/standby when the PC is turned on/woken/put to sleep/turned off. The included makefile can install and enable said services. I specifically made it so it does more than SteamOS which only wakes the TV up. Depending on your TV, it might not even turn itself off if you switched to something else like watching YouTube or just another HDMI input (that's the case for my Samsung S95B).

Ladies and gentleman, we goteem.

GG EZ

Afterword

I think this Ugreen dongle is now the best one to achieve 4K 120 Hz with our gimped HDMI on Radeon GPUs. Of course, it will be even better for more people to report in their time with it, but at least for me, it's nearly perfect. Just the inclusion of CEC makes me think that I will stick to using adapter even if we get native HDMI 2.1 down the line or I could use two HDMI cables since with CEC, you can switch to any input you want. Let's hope they accept my patch to the amdgpu shortly and maybe follow the Idea of enabling VRR not only when explicit FreeSync support is advertised by the TV.

One more bonus for me is that the TV thinks something is still connected to HDMI3 even after I move my PC back to my room. This makes it so it doesn't reset all my HDR calibration, game mode options, etc for this port. Very much appreciated.

FYI, for TV gaming, I'm using gamescope session on vanilla Arch. steam-big-picture-session is finally a package that sets it up properly, with all system settings accessible just like on the Steam Deck. Even GPU max TDP slider works.

F*** HDMI forum, f*** MPEG-LA, abolish software patents!

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I'm upgrading from Nvidia 1060 to 3070, and doing final checks before installing. Looking up recommendations, I see a lot of suggestions to uninstall and reinstall my nvidia driver, but it seems to mostly be to ensure I have the latest driver.

I have a freshly installed Mint, so that alone isn't an issue. Should I reinstall drivers? I'm using the recommended, not the official, so I'm wondering if that will change what commands I need to remove and install the driver, or if all drivers are bundled with the same sudo command.

Any other suggestions on things I should do before install would be appreciated. Yes, already checked compatibility with my cpu.

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hello! ive been using arch (chad) for about 3 months now and everything has been going smoothly, but lately my main monitor has either been freezing, or my entire PC has restarted while launching elden ring, spiderman 2, and nightreign. im running a 5120x1440 resolution on cachy os. ive tried different versions of Proton GE using protonupqt, and still no solution. the "crashing" varies per game. for instance SP2 will full on restart my pc, or make my main monitor freeze, but elden ring and nightrein will launch, but sit at a white screen until i force close it. I do get a cursor change to what it would be in game, ( goldish yellow) but that is as far as itll go. whats interesting is that i can run DS1 without issue. any help is greatly appreciated and ill leave my specs below

**I WILL SAY, EVERYTHING WAS WORKING FINE UNTIL SOMETHING WEIRD HAPPENED LAUNCHING BLACK OPS 2** after launching my entire screen showed a bunch of different colors in cubes and i had to force close the game.

odyssey g9 5120x1440
AMD RX 9070XT
Ryzen 9 7900x3D
cachyos KDE plasma version 6.5.3 using Wayland

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Just made a tutorial on how to get Minecraft BedrockGDK running on linux with some online connection!!!
Achieved through using Proxypass!
https://github.com/Kas-tle/ProxyPass/

Weather-OS has been working hard on WineGDK and Proton-GDK!
https://github.com/Weather-OS/WineGDK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m76O2cRIEnM

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Wir begrüßen Euch recht herzlich zum 12. Türchen im Holarse Linuxspiele-Adventskalender 2025! Im nunmehr schon zwölften (!) Jahr verlosen wir unter allen Linuxspielern und denen, die es noch werden möchten täglich ein natives Linuxspiel. Je nach Tag (z.B. Advent oder Nikolaus) können sich auch mehrere Spiele im Türchen verstecken. Dann haben mehrere Kommentare die Möglichkeit ein Spiel zu gewinnen.

Wie mache ich mit?

Teilnehmen kann jeder, der Lust auf Spielen unter Linux hat! Ihr benötigt zum Teilnehmen nur ein Holarse-Konto, damit wir euch den möglichen Gewinn per PM zuschicken können. Schreibt dazu einfach die Antwort zu der Frage des Tages hier unten in die Kommentare und schon seid ihr dabei!

Unter allen, die bis 20 Uhr unten in den Kommentaren antworten, wird dann der Gewinn oder die Gewinne verlost. Bei mehreren Spielen gibt es natürlich auch mehrere Gewinner!

Seid ihr durch random() ausgelost worden, dann erhaltet ihr den Geschenk-Link (Humble Store, dort benötigt ihr dann ein Konto) oder direkt den Steam-Key zum Einlösen per PM hier auf Holarse zugeschickt. Wenn ihr den Gewinn nicht bis zum 31.12.2025 eingefordert habt, rutscht er automatisch wieder in den Lostopf fürs nächste Jahr.

Wenn ihr bereits das Spiel habt, oder es euch nicht interessiert, ihr aber dennoch kommentieren wollt, schreibt einfach in den Kommentar dazu, dass ihr nicht teilnehmen wollt.

Frage des Tages

Welches Adventurespiel unter Linux würdest du unbedingt weiterempfehlen?

Was gibt es zu gewinnen?

Im heutigen Adventskalender-Türchen versteckt sich diesmal:

• Türchen: Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition, gesponsert von comrad im Originalwert von €19,50.

Auflösung

Heute um 20 Uhr wird die Kommentarsektion geschlossen und danach der Gewinner ermittelt und hier nachfolgend bekannt gegeben.

So, I was thinking about switching to Linux after using Windows for a good 7 years now. I'm looking for something easy to use and install that will support most games I can play on windows (also games like Peak or RV There yet). I'm honestly kinda scared I'll fuck something up and wont be able to recover my pc so something simple is best. Idealy I want to be able to use opera gx as a browser but I don't know if that's how Linux works. I appreciate any tips and tricks and thanks ahead of time ofcourse!

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Context:

My PC used to run Windows 10 on an HDD, but I migrated to Linux Mint last year which I installed on an SSD in the same PC. I used to play Fallout 3 often on Epic when I was a Win.10 user.

I've been using Linux only on my PC for the last year, but never paid attention to optimizing/playing games apart from some Valve titles.

A power cut last year corrupted my Windows 10 install, but I can still access all my files from that HDD via Linux; I just can't boot up Win.10 itself.

Seeing as I've still got FO3's game files and saves on my HDD left over from my time in Windows 10, what steps do I need to take now to set up the EG Launcher on Linux, and get Fallout 3 up and running again?

I ask this because I still haven't taught myself the basics of getting games to run on Linux (except for some things on Steam, but I ain't versed in "Wine" yet) and I'm only where I am on Linux Mint because of the step-by-step tutorial I followed last year to install it to my SSD.

I'll certainly take any advice to better my understanding of gaming on Linux, to configure the rest of my Steam library and such

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