I have no idea where to post this, I assumed…since its a gaming mouse, the gaming linux community would be appropriate, Apologies if I am mistaken.

I have a g502 hero, and it is giving me no end of grief… namely with regards to the DPI settings.

First and foremost, it just randomly resets itself to an absurdly high DPI

I use Piper, since everything I’ve found online says Piper works great for g502 mice on linux, and while I can use it to set the colors of the LEDs… the DPI settings just don’t stick.

I’ve tried setting all the DPI options to the same DPI I prefer, Doesnt work. I’ve tried disabling all the DPI settings except one, and doesnt work. I’ve even tried running piper via sudo and the DPI settings still don’t change on the mouse (they change in Piper, though)

It seems like nothing I can set, as far as DPI goes, works. I know it is communicating with the mouse cause, like I said, I can change the LED colors and button configs… but the DPI settings just wont stick, and worse, randomly change.

and I know, I say random, and some people might thing I’m accidentally hitting the resolution up button since its right there next to m1, but I’m not. I can have the DPI set, via the DPI up/down buttons on the mouse, then get up and walk away… and when i come back, its back at absurd meth speed again.

Its genuinely not only driving me nuts, but really screwing with my ability to play games.

If anyone has any suggestion or solution, can you please share them with me?

If you got this far, then thankyou for reading this half rant half, half tech plea.

  • mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 month ago

    My g502 mostly works okay in mint with flatpak piper, but did have a bug that would swap default and sniper DPI every time I switch profile. Fixed by removing all profiles and creating new ones from scratch. Another thing, try and do a firmware update with the official logitech software in a VM or in a windows machine.

  • n3m37h@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Boot up into windows, create profiles switch to onboard mode and select said profiles.

    Sadly Ive yet to find anything that works except this

    // Solar can change dpi but if you change dpi on the mouse it goes back to default

    • coaxil@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Beat me to it, exactly what I do with the exact same mouse, only needs to be done one time, and your are gtg!

      Also, man the Logitech software is just god awful. Good mouse though for the money

      • Lucy :3@feddit.orgEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Btw, a VM (eg. in QEMU) works just as well. You only need to pass through the USB device itself, so it won’t be accessible anymore to the host device, so have a second mouse at hand (or learn to control QEMU fully with the kb)

        • coaxil@lemm.eeEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Good heads up, and something I should play with to learn more on! I have never had a major need, as I keep a fully working native windows install for work. But def inspired me to tinker some more with that stuff. Was reading about this:

          https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GIM-Open-Source

          And was also keen to play with that and see how well passing your GPU to the VM goes, so two items now good this weekend to check it methinks!