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Today I bought an HyperX Alloy Elite RGB keyboard. I see that they have a led pattern customization software called NGenuity (https://www.hyperxgaming.com/us/ngenuity). But that's windows only. I tried to run it in wine but it didn't find the keyboard.
Is there a way to configure it in Linux or make wine find the keyboard so I can use the windows led customization program ?



Thanks.



A warning note



I couldn't get NGenuity to work on linux. It installed and run on Wine, but didn't recognize the keyboard. So I tried first in a virtualized ReactOS, with equal results. Then I continued to a virtualized Windows 7 running on Ubuntu, that I have in my office's computer. When I tried this option, NGenuity runned and asked me if I wanted to update keyboard's firmware. I made the choice to update and the whole keyboard went dead. The update's progress bar just didn't pass the initial state and I thought I had ruined the keyboard. Unpluged, replugged, restarted. Dead. Called the support only to listen they would replace it.
Fortunately I had windows natively installed in other machine and this time the update completed sucessfully and the keyboard went alive again. But please:



JUST DON'T RUN NGENUITY FIRMWARE UPDATES IN NON-STANDARD WINDOWS INSTALLATIONS



Although if anyone had success in running this software or customizing the keyboard on linux I'd like to hear from you.










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  • You might have better luck running it in a VM set up for direct USB access to the keyboard. But of course, for that you need a Windows license.
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Today I bought an HyperX Alloy Elite RGB keyboard. I see that they have a led pattern customization software called NGenuity (https://www.hyperxgaming.com/us/ngenuity). But that's windows only. I tried to run it in wine but it didn't find the keyboard.
Is there a way to configure it in Linux or make wine find the keyboard so I can use the windows led customization program ?



Thanks.



A warning note



I couldn't get NGenuity to work on linux. It installed and run on Wine, but didn't recognize the keyboard. So I tried first in a virtualized ReactOS, with equal results. Then I continued to a virtualized Windows 7 running on Ubuntu, that I have in my office's computer. When I tried this option, NGenuity runned and asked me if I wanted to update keyboard's firmware. I made the choice to update and the whole keyboard went dead. The update's progress bar just didn't pass the initial state and I thought I had ruined the keyboard. Unpluged, replugged, restarted. Dead. Called the support only to listen they would replace it.
Fortunately I had windows natively installed in other machine and this time the update completed sucessfully and the keyboard went alive again. But please:



JUST DON'T RUN NGENUITY FIRMWARE UPDATES IN NON-STANDARD WINDOWS INSTALLATIONS



Although if anyone had success in running this software or customizing the keyboard on linux I'd like to hear from you.










share|improve this question
























  • You might have better luck running it in a VM set up for direct USB access to the keyboard. But of course, for that you need a Windows license.
    – a CVn
    Oct 6 '18 at 19:19














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Today I bought an HyperX Alloy Elite RGB keyboard. I see that they have a led pattern customization software called NGenuity (https://www.hyperxgaming.com/us/ngenuity). But that's windows only. I tried to run it in wine but it didn't find the keyboard.
Is there a way to configure it in Linux or make wine find the keyboard so I can use the windows led customization program ?



Thanks.



A warning note



I couldn't get NGenuity to work on linux. It installed and run on Wine, but didn't recognize the keyboard. So I tried first in a virtualized ReactOS, with equal results. Then I continued to a virtualized Windows 7 running on Ubuntu, that I have in my office's computer. When I tried this option, NGenuity runned and asked me if I wanted to update keyboard's firmware. I made the choice to update and the whole keyboard went dead. The update's progress bar just didn't pass the initial state and I thought I had ruined the keyboard. Unpluged, replugged, restarted. Dead. Called the support only to listen they would replace it.
Fortunately I had windows natively installed in other machine and this time the update completed sucessfully and the keyboard went alive again. But please:



JUST DON'T RUN NGENUITY FIRMWARE UPDATES IN NON-STANDARD WINDOWS INSTALLATIONS



Although if anyone had success in running this software or customizing the keyboard on linux I'd like to hear from you.










share|improve this question















Today I bought an HyperX Alloy Elite RGB keyboard. I see that they have a led pattern customization software called NGenuity (https://www.hyperxgaming.com/us/ngenuity). But that's windows only. I tried to run it in wine but it didn't find the keyboard.
Is there a way to configure it in Linux or make wine find the keyboard so I can use the windows led customization program ?



Thanks.



A warning note



I couldn't get NGenuity to work on linux. It installed and run on Wine, but didn't recognize the keyboard. So I tried first in a virtualized ReactOS, with equal results. Then I continued to a virtualized Windows 7 running on Ubuntu, that I have in my office's computer. When I tried this option, NGenuity runned and asked me if I wanted to update keyboard's firmware. I made the choice to update and the whole keyboard went dead. The update's progress bar just didn't pass the initial state and I thought I had ruined the keyboard. Unpluged, replugged, restarted. Dead. Called the support only to listen they would replace it.
Fortunately I had windows natively installed in other machine and this time the update completed sucessfully and the keyboard went alive again. But please:



JUST DON'T RUN NGENUITY FIRMWARE UPDATES IN NON-STANDARD WINDOWS INSTALLATIONS



Although if anyone had success in running this software or customizing the keyboard on linux I'd like to hear from you.







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  • You might have better luck running it in a VM set up for direct USB access to the keyboard. But of course, for that you need a Windows license.
    – a CVn
    Oct 6 '18 at 19:19


















  • You might have better luck running it in a VM set up for direct USB access to the keyboard. But of course, for that you need a Windows license.
    – a CVn
    Oct 6 '18 at 19:19
















You might have better luck running it in a VM set up for direct USB access to the keyboard. But of course, for that you need a Windows license.
– a CVn
Oct 6 '18 at 19:19




You might have better luck running it in a VM set up for direct USB access to the keyboard. But of course, for that you need a Windows license.
– a CVn
Oct 6 '18 at 19:19










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Wine does not support USB drivers, but if your device is being recognised as a serial device, and I think it is, then you need a symbolic link between com1 and /dev/usb and it must be in the folder ~/.wine/dosdevices



This will allow windows programs running under wine to see usb serial devices. I use a usb GPS with wine.



This should do it.



ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com1



Source of this solution: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1335098&p=8371229#post8371229





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Wine does not support USB drivers, but if your device is being recognised as a serial device, and I think it is, then you need a symbolic link between com1 and /dev/usb and it must be in the folder ~/.wine/dosdevices



This will allow windows programs running under wine to see usb serial devices. I use a usb GPS with wine.



This should do it.



ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com1



Source of this solution: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1335098&p=8371229#post8371229





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Wine does not support USB drivers, but if your device is being recognised as a serial device, and I think it is, then you need a symbolic link between com1 and /dev/usb and it must be in the folder ~/.wine/dosdevices



This will allow windows programs running under wine to see usb serial devices. I use a usb GPS with wine.



This should do it.



ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com1



Source of this solution: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1335098&p=8371229#post8371229





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Wine does not support USB drivers, but if your device is being recognised as a serial device, and I think it is, then you need a symbolic link between com1 and /dev/usb and it must be in the folder ~/.wine/dosdevices



This will allow windows programs running under wine to see usb serial devices. I use a usb GPS with wine.



This should do it.



ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com1



Source of this solution: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1335098&p=8371229#post8371229





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This will allow windows programs running under wine to see usb serial devices. I use a usb GPS with wine.



This should do it.



ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com1



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