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Hi all,

just got my Roccat Kone XTD. Currently looking into the linux tools and setup.
Just wanted to know, if anybody else is using a Roccat mouse and if somebody is interested in the linux tools for it,
so maybe i'd import the relevant packages for Mageia?

FWIW, this is it: http://www.roccat.org/Products/Gaming-M ... -Kone-XTD/
Don't be fooled by the flashy light effects and stuff, after all it's a really robust mouse with a solid build quality.

Are they the ones that actually support linux users, seem to remeber looking at those a while back, on a side note I could do with a mouse.

They any good?


Pete

Linux support is provided by a community project: http://roccat.sourceforge.net
Just flashed a new firmware and the control program offers same functionality as under windows, even the adjustable led colors.
Built the necessary packages already for Mageia, so just shout if you're interested. It supports all their models, even Roccat Talk protocol ...

The one I bought could be considered a bit pricey, but thinking about it again, during the last 5 years or so 55€ spent for 3 mice,
it's not that expensive. But also the other models are really good, build quality is also really good.

Guess what the Mrs got me for my 40th.

I am now the proud owner of a kone xtd

Was going to build the driver package then remembered you had done a Mageia rpm. (hint, hint )

No problem, here's the whole archive:
http://www.load.to/KJk3H6kuHo/roccat-tools-mga3.zip
Unzip them, and those are the ones you want to install:

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roccat-koneplus roccat-konextd roccat-tools

And then you need to add your user to the roccat group and logout/login.
Then you can use the applet.

For more documentation take a look at http://roccat.sourceforge.net/ or just ask me

PS: If you're not on x86_64 just ping again, rebuild for i586 will not take long.

Cheers dude, shame download thing don't work. Never have got on with theses download service things.

Edit:

Guess firefox SBP and ADB+ works well.

mmm, tried it in konqueror. seemed to work, but its an exe. I dont think so.......

Then played music WTF.

I can give(PM) you access to my ftp server if you want to use that Dok, Have plenty of space/bandwidth?

Ok, then let's do it that way

Use it when ever, Built the driver anyway, to impatient

Was quite surprised to see just about everything works on nix same as windows. Thought it may have been less confusing/simple than the windows software.

Got the lights to change colour

It even tells you via libnotify what dpi you change too.

Screeny for those interested

Even did the firmware upgrade under Mageia

The dev (Stefan Achatz) has certainly done a cracking job(Tips hat). Nice to see Roccat support him too.

Tried any games yet Dok?

Still figuring it all out

Nope, been quite busy yet. Actually only got this one because build quality is pretty solid, and it has at least 5 buttons and nice rubberized surface. Also liked the LEDs

Is there a MGA4 rpm for these Doc? Noticed there's a new version to (1.3.0). Dont know if its in the official repos now or not .

If not I'll have a go at doing a updated rpm with the new version when I get MGA4 installed

Will do an mga4 version once I've upgraded and can test. Also didn't look if there's a newer version, as the old one works for everything I need.

If you see a new version, just tell me and I'll update
edit doktor5000: Hmmm, nifty - there's 0.22 then 0.23 and then 1.0.0, 1.1.0, 1.2.0 and now 1.3.0 - will take a look ...

Okay, author was quite active, one new model (Ryos) is now supported and quite some bugfixes/changes:

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* Sun Feb 02 2014 doktor5000 <doktor5000@mageia.org>
- new version 1.3.0
  o Fixed: KonePure and KonePureOptical macro problems
  o Fixed: Actual profile changing twice when using settings tab
  o Fixed: Multiple device warnings on replug after firmware update
  o Improved: Default profile can now be switched off
  o Improved: Sound playback now with per-device configurable volume
  o Improved: Sensitivity change now supports audio notifications
  o Improved: Shortcut dialog allows toggling modifier checkboxes with key press
  o Improved: Profile save dialogs show filename proposition and add extension if needed
  o Changed: Device reset now lives in misc menu

* Sun Feb 02 2014 doktor5000 <doktor5000@mageia.org>
- new version 1.2.0
  o Improved: New device scanner with support for future userspace-only implementations
  o Fixed: Memory leaks
  o Improved: finer grained button inheritance if hardware differs from rmp/rkp
   for Kone[+], KoneXTD, KonePure, KonePureOptical, Kova[+], RyosMK*
  o Fixed: segfault on first autostart on Mint16
  o Fixed: typo in post_install script
  o Removed installed development headers

* Sun Feb 02 2014 doktor5000 <doktor5000@mageia.org>
- new version 1.1.0
  o Fixed: Segfault when removing device with window monitor running
  o Introduced install helper scripts
  o Ryos: Key view in control now reflects blinking key illumination
  o Ryos: Added live illumination recording dialog
  o Ryos: Fixed thumbster and FN key behaviour
  o Spec-file: Improved handling of udevdir and parallel make

* Sun Feb 02 2014 doktor5000 <doktor5000@mageia.org>
- new version 1.0.0
  o Updated TalkFX/RyosSDK dbus interface
  o Changed location and names of user specific application configurations
  o Changed location of hardware specific profile data to /var/lib/roccat
  o Changed gamefile functionality
- own new directory /var/lib/roccat

* Sun Feb 02 2014 doktor5000 <doktor5000@mageia.org>
- new version 0.23.0
  o Ryos: Fixed udev rules to work with Ubuntu 13.10
  o Updated Talk to Talk2
  o Ryos: Full Talk functionality
  o Ryos: Added RippleFX support
  o Ryos: Remap now swaps keys

* Sun Feb 02 2014 doktor5000 <doktor5000@mageia.org>
- new version 0.22.0
  o Ryos: Support added
  o KonePureOptical: Fixed eventhandler
  o Kone[+], KoneXTD: Fixed import of newer rmp format
  o Fixed: Color selectors not working with dark GUI themes
  o Improved: Slider handling


Now will only need to upgrade my system to 4 ...

The dev has certainly been a busy bee it seems, still not upgraded mine yet ether , that's the down side when your system is stable and what not

Just uploaded all the new packages for 1.3.0 / x86_64 to your FTP. If you also need i586, I have to poke around with iurt a bit.
You only need to regenerate hdlists and update from your repo

Another hint: For me strangely profile 5 was the actual profile, so lighting colors changed.
You only need to change again to your default profile (probably 1) and then store to mouse again.

Awesome job will do that shortly !

Been trying to do the freecad rpm for mga4 but hit the problem with doc.coin3d.org been off line. don't remember how i got round it last time

Edit, I'll do a mga4 dir tree I think

I've updated the directory tree, so have separate ones for mageia 3/4 make life easier I think

Seem to have a permissions problem I think. Added myself to the roccat group an all. config page opens but wont allow writing to the device, root can.
The event-handler don't appear to be working/loading neither.

The rpm for iskufx also failed on "roccat" dependency. Had to do an ldconfig to find libisku.so too.

Do you have the spec file, cant see a source rpm was going to investigate!

pete910 wrote:The rpm for iskufx also failed on "roccat" dependency. Had to do an ldconfig to find libisku.so too.

Do you have the spec file, cant see a source rpm was going to investigate!

Seems my password for the ftp changed, I'd upload both there. Could you take a look please?

Weird, the only subpackage that requires roccat instead of roccat-tools is the isku subpackage.
Maybe the guy who created the package never used the isku?

Already fixed it.

doktor5000 wrote:

pete910 wrote:The rpm for iskufx also failed on "roccat" dependency. Had to do an ldconfig to find libisku.so too.

Do you have the spec file, cant see a source rpm was going to investigate!

Seems my password for the ftp changed, I'd upload both there. Could you take a look please?

Weird, the only subpackage that requires roccat instead of roccat-tools is the isku subpackage.
Maybe the guy who created the package never used the isku?

Already fixed it.

Like a tit I never updated the ftp acc directory Try now should be fine, same password as before (I hope)

Thought it was odd, built from source and tried it that way, that sorted the notify on dpi change etc.
Still have the "error creating directory, permission denied" when trying to save a profile to the mouse/keyboard.

Edit: here's a pic


Dos'nt show anything in the console if I run it from there neither. So am kinda stuck.

Sorry for not answering, got that issue too. And reading the INSTALL file again, there is a small error/omission in there.
You want to check the existence and permissions of /var/lib/roccat where it saves profiles systemwide.
Should normally be accessible for members of group roccat, but to make it sure do:

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mkdir -p /var/lib/roccat
chown -R root:roccat /var/lib/roccat
chmod 2770 /var/lib/roccat

The chown -R was added by me, as there was a subdirectory in there owned by root - maybe because I stupidly ran the config tool as root to see if that would workaround the permissions problem.

Also you want to check the permissions on the device nodes themselves, should all be readable and writable by group roccat.
In your case, the first command would probably be iskucontrol -p

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[doktor5000@Mageia3 ~]$ konextdcontrol -p
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb4/4-1/4-1:1.0/0003:1E7D:2E22.0005/koneplus/roccatkoneplus0
[doktor5000@Mageia3 ~]$ ls -al /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb4/4-1/4-1:1.0/0003:1E7D:2E22.0005/koneplus/roccatkoneplus0
insgesamt 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root      0 Feb  3 23:59 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root      0 Feb  3 23:59 ../
-rw-rw---- 1 root roccat 4096 Feb  3 23:59 actual_profile
--w--w---- 1 root roccat    3 Feb  3 23:59 control
-r--r--r-- 1 root roccat 4096 Feb  3 23:59 dev
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      0 Feb  5 10:15 device -> ../../../0003:1E7D:2E22.0005/
-r--r----- 1 root roccat 4096 Feb  3 23:59 firmware_version
-rw-rw---- 1 root roccat    6 Feb  3 23:59 info
--w--w---- 1 root roccat 2082 Feb  3 23:59 macro
drwxr-xr-x 2 root roccat    0 Feb  3 23:59 power/
-r--r----- 1 root roccat   77 Feb  3 23:59 profile1_buttons
-r--r----- 1 root roccat   43 Feb  3 23:59 profile1_settings
-r--r----- 1 root roccat   77 Feb  3 23:59 profile2_buttons
-r--r----- 1 root roccat   43 Feb  3 23:59 profile2_settings
-r--r----- 1 root roccat   77 Feb  3 23:59 profile3_buttons
-r--r----- 1 root roccat   43 Feb  3 23:59 profile3_settings
-r--r----- 1 root roccat   77 Feb  3 23:59 profile4_buttons
-r--r----- 1 root roccat   43 Feb  3 23:59 profile4_settings
-r--r----- 1 root roccat   77 Feb  3 23:59 profile5_buttons
-r--r----- 1 root roccat   43 Feb  3 23:59 profile5_settings
-rw-rw---- 1 root roccat   77 Feb  3 23:59 profile_buttons
-rw-rw---- 1 root roccat   43 Feb  3 23:59 profile_settings
-rw-rw---- 1 root roccat    6 Feb  3 23:59 sensor
-rw-rw---- 1 root roccat 4096 Feb  3 23:59 startup_profile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      0 Feb  3 23:59 subsystem -> ../../../../../../../../../class/koneplus/
--w--w---- 1 root roccat   16 Feb  3 23:59 talk
-rw-rw---- 1 root roccat    4 Feb  3 23:59 tcu
-r--r----- 1 root roccat 1028 Feb  3 23:59 tcu_image
-rw-r--r-- 1 root roccat 4096 Feb  3 23:59 uevent

If it looks like this, and still doesn't work, then pull the mouse and replug it. Also mentioned in th FAQ: http://roccat.sourceforge.net/general.h ... faq_initrd and the bullet point after that.

Thats what fixed it, Had the /var/lib/roccat directory , but wrong owner

Works now , cheers Doc. 1st rule in *nix is always check the permissions/owner
After all this time it still catches me out

Does your FTP login work again?

pete910 wrote:Does your FTP login work again?

Yep, but I'll decided I'll add this fix into the packages and then upload them

doktor5000 wrote:Yep, but I'll decided I'll add this fix into the packages and then upload them

Done, including the src.rpm.

If you have any related questions just shoot