Having used Bazzite on my Ally X causes the Windows 11 Dynamic Lighting driver to fail to install
I have an Asus ROG Ally X and have a dual boot setup with Windows 11 and Bazzite. I've used Bazzite several times now, and I remember reading about it having broken the stick LEDs before, though it seemed to have been fixed.
However, now every second time that I reboot Windows, it'll try to install the same update, one that includes their new Dynamic Lighting controller driver. Unfortunately, this fails every time at the step that sets up the driver, seemingly rolling back the entire update. When I try to use Dynamic Lighting in the Windows settings now, it doesn't work. The LEDs remain off. Even switching back to Asus' RGB LED controller doesn't turn on the LEDs. They do have the rainbow effect when the device is in standby though (while running Windows), and they also work just fine when running Bazzite.
I'm grateful for any pointers. :)
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Hi, the RGB bug is not present in the current deck images
That's not to say it's not present in other distros
Your driver update seems to be unrelated though. Try clean installing armoury crate
It's a Windows driver though, are you sure?
I mean I'll try, but the Armoury Crate frontend seems very unrelated to this issue
Try clean installing the driver
I think I know why the LEDs do not work
By default we disable them during boot
And if armoury crate malfunctions it will not reset that setting or tell them the device has started
Therefore 0 leds
Would it help that I've had that setting enabled in handheld daemon ever since I installed Bazzite?
You had the setting for LEDs during boot enabled?
The command gets sent anyway
I can try using a different frontend, like G-Helper
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