romeodelight Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 Hi, I would like to buy the Vengeance K90 keyboard. However my Operating System is Linux (LMDE). Will the anti-ghosting and backlight correctly operate ? Best regards Romeo Brittany - France Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted May 21, 2012 Corsair Employee Share Posted May 21, 2012 We have not done any extensive testing with Linux. The keyboard will function as normal, but you will have no access to the software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glussier Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 I usually don't use my k90 with my linux box, but I made a test on Fedora just for you. All the keys fonction properly, even the multimedia key and the leds. Obviously, the only thing that do not work are the G keys and the macro keys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted May 21, 2012 Corsair Employee Share Posted May 21, 2012 Thank you for the information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
compvter Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 Don't know how hard it would be to get G buttons to work in linux, but i know few people who didn't buy g15 or g11 keyboard because those didn't have that functionality either. Just saying it might be worth implementing, since "linux gurus" actually use more keyboard.. for example they prefer to type commands to terminal instead using GUI with mouse. Doesn't matter to me that much (im not linux guru), but it would be nice feature to have when booting to opensuse/ubuntu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted May 29, 2012 Corsair Employee Share Posted May 29, 2012 Thank you for the feedback. I pass this a long to the product manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Cone Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Bumping this to add that I would also like to see full Linux support for the K90. In fact, I found this thread because I'm in the market for a new keyboard and was researching on Google about a high-quality backlighted keyboard with functions that work on Linux. And hey, not only are Linux guys usually tech enthusiasts, but with Valve porting Steam games over to Linux there are likely to be more Linux gamers looking for well-supported "gamer" input options (e.g., keyboards, mice). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splitlocked Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 I have been using my K90 with Linux for some months now and there are only three things that do not work properly: G-keys/macrosI get an unwelcome trailing aposrophy when I do this: [']v [letter]v [letter]^ [']^, for example "I'm" becomes "I'm'"Caps-Lock and Scroll-Lock LEDs never light up The G-keys would make my Linux experience that much more delightful (I love the terminal and use the same commands often), and the extra apostrophes makes typing annoying. The Caps-Lock LED is not so important because I never turn on CAPS, and I've never in my life had use for Scroll-Lock. I have also read in other threads that the CAPS and Scroll LEDs work in some distros (like Fedora), but they have never worked in any of the distros I have tried (Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Arch, Gentoo, BackTrack, Sabayon). The Num-Lock LED works. Media keys and volume scroll works. Windows key lock works (probably in hardware). Backlight adjustment works (probably in hardware). Some of the G-keys send keycodes that are recognized as other keys (G17 is Pause/Play). I would really like it if there was support for macro recording/playback in Linux. Honestly I don't think I would have ended up with this keyboard if I knew that macros wouldn't work in Linux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted August 13, 2012 Corsair Employee Share Posted August 13, 2012 If there is enough demand for a Linux version, we can look into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r2d290 Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 I am also waiting for the K90 keyboard now, and I am using Ubuntu. I would realy like to use the G keys too :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Cone Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 If there is enough demand for a Linux version, we can look into it. If Corsair released some technical specs on the protocols the keyboard uses to handle the special keys I bet the Linux community would step up and do a lot of the work for you. (Not to mention spreading the word that the keyboard is Linux-friendly.) (I received mine, today, by the way. Love the way it feels and looks. Having fully functional G and M keys would be the cherry on top.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhbiker Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 i registered just because of this thread... if you add linux support for your keyboards and mices i'm pretty sure the people will buy it more since its fully functional... not like other keyboards with macro keys which are useless since there is no driver/software on linux to properly configure it... so you ed up with a heap of unused keys instead of making them functional for something just my 2 cents P.S. if you do add support for K90 you got a new customer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jupiter Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Recent purchaser of the K90 and only using linux, I can confirm you that access to the G keys for custom scripts would be greatly appreciated (and advocated if done) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dispat0r Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 would be really nice to have usable G keys in linux :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r2d290 Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 If there is enough demand for a Linux version, we can look into it. As you can see, there is starting to get some people who really would like a fully opperating keyboard with G-keys on Linux. Is there any progress in the plan of develop drivers for this? :sunglasse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jupiter Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 Somehow I got the G keys kinda working here... i'll finish it when i'll have some free time. anyway... you can find a working framework on https://github.com/jupiter126/k90-test Hope it helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r2d290 Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 Nice work! Can't wait to try this out :D Would you care to make a step-by-step guide on how to get this to work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jupiter Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 I tried to comment the source as much as possible when writing it, usage should be quite straight forward. There are really a lot of comments in the .sh so reading the script. The dev version (1.6) will be easier to use however (when working), as I splitted the script in 3 files: script, general conf and layout (with various layout files allowing for various layouts) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalleStar Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 The K90 seems to work fine on my Debian install, the only things that don't seem to work are the macro keys and the volume knob. While the volume knob can adjust the volume, either way I spin it, it just turns the volume up. I don't know if it's like this for everyone or just me, using an ASUS Xonar DS 7.1 PCI card if that's relevant at all. I can definitely live with it, but I would love to see some Corsair love for Linux support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r2d290 Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 The K90 seems to work fine on my Debian install, the only things that don't seem to work are the macro keys and the volume knob. While the volume knob can adjust the volume, either way I spin it, it just turns the volume up. I don't know if it's like this for everyone or just me, using an ASUS Xonar DS 7.1 PCI card if that's relevant at all. I can definitely live with it, but I would love to see some Corsair love for Linux support. The volume knob works perfectly for me. Both to adjust the volume up and down. I'm using ubuntu 12.04 But as you say, the macro keys does not work out of the box. Have you tried what jupiter has made? @Jupiter: You said something to me about an more easy install-package that maybe would be finished the day after you sendt me that last PM. Anything new about that? :sunglasse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatagashira Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 If there is enough demand for a Linux version, we can look into it. Well, +2 demands here(me and a friend of mine)! I would without a doubt buy the k90 if there was linux software available. the feature's i would imagine for a linux version: -working macro keys, able to execute commandline commands -the ability to script the keyboard from the system (e.g. change backlight from the commandline if the keyboard supports it) -auto updates thanks in advance :D:! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jupiter Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 Hi, Sorry, hectic timetables prevented me from faster answers. My current version of the linux script is quite workable, although not that easy to install. @r2d290: I still have a major buffer issue, preventing me from doing real time key interpretation, and the binding of scripted keypresses to the G1-G18, once this is solved, they keyboard will be usable for gaming purpose also (so far it works for sysadmin purpose). Heaps of work slowed me down on the dev (will probably last a few more weeks), and I was a bit slowed down when I gave the corsair a sip of beer :s. After 3 days drying it seems to be working fine again. Anyway, when the keyboard was down, I did a successful test with the script on the unsupported buttons of my mouse (razer imperator). As my idea that this script would work for different devices is now confirmed, I decided to rename it to a more general name, update your links to: https://github.com/jupiter126/Linux_Custom_Control_Device Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r2d290 Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 Well done! :sunglasse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hkparker Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 Commenting to also request linux support. I'm in the market for a mechanical keyboard but will be installing linux mint as soon as steam/tf2 is working well under linux. Therefore linux support is a must for whichever keyboard I choose. Very awesome you guys are listening to feedback, corsair rocks! Also, Awesome work jupiter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DungeonLord Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 If there is enough demand for a Linux version, we can look into it. i have a k90 myself (pre-ordered) and would like to see linux suport.... since i'm never getting rid of this kb and if it goes bad i'm getting another Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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