It took me a bit to figure out so I wanted to make a helpful post for anyone who might be using the Maxfit6 on a linux system!

The Problem: If you try to plugin your keyboard and use the web-app https://www.usevia.app/ - it won't authorize the device 😔. Even if you download the JSON file (aka the specification) that Fantech graciously provides you on their website and follow these steps - it won't work (P.S. I assume this works on Windows/Mac).

The Reason: Most Linux systems won't give the user access to hidraw/usb devices (i.e the keyboard). And so the browser won't be able to authorize/pair it.

The Solution: Luckily, there is a super help thread on the Archlinux forms! But here's a step-by-step:

1. Use lsusb command and note the vendorId/productId for the Maxfit6. It should be something like ID 36b0:3002 in the output.
2. ls -l /dev/hidraw* should list all the usb devices you have and their permissions. You gotta find which one number is the maxfit6
3. dmesg | grep -i hidraw command should list the devices names next to the hidraw numbers. Make note of which numbers
4. You can now modify the read/write permissions for the device using chmod a+rw /dev/hidraw# using the numbers you discovered from step 3. However, I do not recommend this personally. You'll have to do it every single time you want to modify your key-bindings & chmod is a high-risk command.
5. (optional/better): Create a udev rule for the device and add your user to it

Create a file in /etc/udev/rules.d/ and specify the device using its product/vendor ID:

50-via-keyboard.rules

SUBSYSTEM=="hidraw", ATTRS{idVendor}=="36b0", ATTRS{idProduct}=="3047", MODE="0666", GROUP="input"

Add your user to the group input. Reboot.

ls -l /dev/hidraw* should now list the devices with read/write

Have fun re-mapping your keys!

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I've been trying to play tModLoader with my friend. He uses Windows 11, I use the latest version of Linux Mint. When I booted up the game and got into a world, he couldn't join, since steam said I was running Terraria instead of tModLoader.

The way tModLoader works is that it is a set of commands, and runs Terraria alongside it. Hence, Terraria and tModLoader have to run at the same time. When I used to use Windows, when my friends got on to tModLoader, it would say they were playing tModLoader (when the commands launch), then Terraria (when the game launches), then tModLoader again. I assume Linux skips over saying tModLoader again, so my friend can't join.

If anyone's experienced anything similar and fixed it, or has theories on how to fix it, please tell me. My friend has wanted me to play with him ever since I got my new PC.

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Hi, About two weeks ago Sea of Thieves on Void Linux suddenly stopped working for me. There have been two reports on ProtonDB since then, and both of them report good results. When launching the game, the initial loading screen (a floating window) will appear. Then, after a much shorter time that usual, the window will disappear, and the game will crash. The game uses EasyAntiCheat, but I can more-or-less confirm that that is not the cause of the issue because Battlebit Remastered - which also uses EasyAntiCheat - still launches, however I am unable to test if online works due to that game being quite dead. Checking the Sea of Thieves launch logs, it contains the usual errors about a lack of NTLM and Kerberos support, and a a ulimit one (also quite common), but then the errors (from Wine) 7412.593:014c:0160:err:winediag:nodrv_CreateWindow Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded. 7412.593:014c:0160:err:winediag:nodrv_CreateWindow L"The explorer process failed to start." This seems to suggest that I have missing drivers, but I have all of the Void Linux AMD GPU drivers installed. Online, it seems that this is sometimes a problem for non-SystemD users, however EloginD seems to fix this. I do have EloginD installed, however, and the only changes I have made to it are disabling all of the Handle* options in the config file, as I use ACPI to manage system sleep.

The final thing that I can think of is that it may have something to do with Flatpak - I am running Steam through Flatpak as EasyAntiCheat does not play well with Void's GLibc version, and there is one bad report of Sea of Thieves on Flatpak on ProtonDB from a few months ago, however there is a more recent successful report. Perhaps I have to give the Flatpak to EloginD somehow? I have no idea how to do that. I've also tried both reinstalling the game, as well as my whole system.

Thanks!

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It’s a game my mother like to play and we have recently switched the family pc to the newest version of Linux mint we have a gtx 1650 gpu with the newest drivers on and safe boot disabled and a amd Ryzrn 5 if I can get any help that would be nice she has 2,099 hours in the game and I it’s fixable

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Basically see title. Are there any initiatives that are helping improve the anticheat situation? I have some ideas but I'm not a programmer so I could be completely wrong here.

1. Whitelisted kernal that gets compared at games run time using a digital signature?

2. Secureboot? Like what bf2042 is doing.

3. A foss Kernel module that can be linked with easy anticheat etc.

Again not a programmer so I have no idea if anything of these ideas are feasible or effective. For Linux gaming to have long term serviceability it needs to be harder to cheat on it then Windows while still adhering to the Linux way of doing things.

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Considering getting a deck for desktop mode vrc and avatar uploading cuz cheaper than a pc but is it possible to upload content on Linux?

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Malak on the title screen, player character, and party members all look like this. I have tried a dozen different proton versions, all of the ones that make it to the title screen have the same issue. Tried 7 or 8 different versions of luxtorpeda, the ones that make it to the title screen don't have this issue, but all were unplayable due to either not loading save files or steam input not working. It is running on an ROG Ally z1x running bazzite. I've already made all recommended changes to the swkotor.ini file. Been trying to fix this for about a week now and I'm completely stumped.

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Hey folks,

I’m thinking of running Fortnite or LoL inside a Linux VM with PCI‑passthrough, but not 100% sure it’ll work. I knew that this was not a thing but just to be sure,I asked GPT if this was even possible, and it gave me that huge list of steps which didn’t sound crazy to me, but I really have no clue. I’ve heard somewhere that someone actually managed to play LoL in a VM (no idea if it was real or not). I checked with other AIs and they said similar things. Is this just AI nonsense, or if I follow those steps (or something like them) can I actually play? Maybe with some risk of a ban or something?( if this is full IA nonsense am sorry just sounded complicated enough that to me it seems that it could be viable

1. CPU & mobo: Intel CPU with VT‑d + board with good IOMMU groups (e.g. ASUS TUF B660/Z690 or MSI PRO B660M).
2. BIOS tweaks: Disable CSM, enable UEFI-only, “Above 4G decoding” and “Resizable BAR.”
3. Kernel args: intel_iommu=on iommu=pt
4. VFIO binding: Bind GPU + its audio to vfio-pci so the host can’t grab it.
5. VM setup: In virt-manager, pick OVMF (UEFI), VirtIO for disk/net, passthrough GPU (and USB controller for keyboard/mouse).
6. Anti‑cheat hack: Add: <feature policy='disable' name='hypervisor'/>

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distro : ubuntu

uhh i'm like really stupid at tech stuff and all i don't even know what a distro is but trying to learn and stuff anyways how do i make skins works + how do i put beatmaps too i'm curious

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Hi all,

Found this laptop randomly in storage it was my daily driver back in college andd I thought it would be interesting to throw Linux into it and give it a new lease on life maybe even see if I can run games on it which is why I'm asking here :)

Edit : Typo on CPU in the title. It's a 7700HQ not Q

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Title, when I play a game and the scene of the game gets dark, it's as if my monitor is dimming to match the screen, which makes the scene darker, etc until it just makes my screen completely black?

I'm on an AMD card on linux mint.

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Hello,

I have just aquired for myself a Logitech G293 steering wheel which I am trying to use on Euro Truck Simulator 2. I'll try my best to explain what is happening, because the issue is very strange. I have installed the driver new-lg4ff together with the software to actually do some config, Oversteer. For Oversteer, I have also installed the permissions to rules.d as described in the github page and restarted my PC. I have done some configs and saved them to a profile , which works in game, but every time I change the app and alt-tab to the browser for example, the config goes back to default and the steering wheel becomes very stiff with the centering spring strengh set to max. I have to go back to the app and change the profile to the empty one (default) and then back to my profile everytime I alt-tab out of the game. How can I fix this? I point out that I never close Oversteer app, just let it run in the background and I am using Fedora Workstation, btw. Thanks!

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Last week, for some reason, my voice chat in roblox has been extremely choppy/ intangible, it doesn't come through sometimes, if at all. I'm also playing on a steam deck, in desktop mode always. I've factory reset it completely, because I figured it was a software problem somewhere, and im not familiar at all with the Linux konsole command stuff, or coding. This still hasn't fixed the problem, im at my wits end with this stuff, Linux has been nothing but a headache and I'm just tired, if anyone has any suggestions at all please let me know. I haven't found anything online about my problem anywhere, and all the fixes have me doing things with coding/github stuff and I'm clueless to it all, I'm willing to learn but I have no idea where to even start, and just wanna talk clearly in roblox(through sober)

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I managed to get Kubuntu to boot with this GPU eventually, but any games with Unreal engine just black screen and lock up the PC for a few minutes before crashing. I've run amdgpu-install, which left me with mesa 25.0.0-devel drivers, rather than 25.10.1 as I expected. Does anyone have an idea what I'm doing wrong here?

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Hi all, im not sure where to post this, but i had some old parts, so i threw them together for a small htpc. The specs are old af, but it has a zotac mini itx h77 wifi b motherboard, i7 3770, 16 gb of ddr3 1600mhz ram, and an rx480. Everything was working great. I had to get the latest, but ancient, bios from zotac to make the rx480 work. I bought an rx 5600xt to upgrade it a bit, but it isnt being recognized either. Am i S.O.L with this combo? Or is there something else im missing? Thank you in advance!

Crossposted in r/bazzite

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Hi! I'm Finally gaming on linux with endeavourOS, and I love this system! I have a question, is there any controller that works well with this distro? I have a redragon controller but, only works if I first boot into windows, and then reboot into linux, that way, it gets recognized as an XBOX 360 control, which is great, but ideally I’d like it to just work by pressing the button in Linux directly. Do you recommend any controller that works out of the box?
Thanks! (And sorry for my English!)

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Hi, I’m running Arch Linux from a USB stick on an HP laptop (model 14-am006la, 4 GB RAM, Intel Celeron N3060). I’m trying to install Geometry Dash from Steam, but Steam gets stuck either endlessly extracting the update or it won’t download the game at all.

I only want to use Steam temporarily, just to download Geometry Dash. After that, I’d like to run the game independently, outside of Steam.

Here’s what I’ve tried: - Installed steam from the official Arch repos - Also tried steam-native-runtime - Enabled Proton compatibility - Installed required lib32 packages (lib32-glibc, lib32-libglvnd, etc.) - Audio is working via PipeWire - Using Intel integrated graphics

Steam opens, but it gets stuck on “Extracting package” or hangs during the game download.

Has anyone successfully downloaded Geometry Dash on a similar setup?

Thanks in advance!

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So, I was tasked with finding a software that does something like an internet cafe, something that puts a timer on a PC and makes it unusable until it is released by the central PC. Something simple, right? No, because all these softwares are for Windows and the computers are Linux (I'm not allowed to change the OS). So could someone tell me a native Linux software that does this? (I don't know if it works on Wine.) submitted by /u/lion_d_w
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hello all, im on debian 12. i have wine and litrus installed.

when i start up arkham knight, it says that my version of direct x is not compatible. ive looked online and cant seem to find anything that works. any ideas on what to do?

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