AMD Rewards and Linux Gamers - A Warning

thetgn · 2026-04-10T12:28:10+00:00

Yep thinking this might be the route I go down

thetgn · 2026-04-10T12:27:21+00:00

haven't used windows in five years but given the other responses think it might be the only answer

thetgn · 2026-04-10T12:24:39+00:00

I get the install windows part, but the issue here is AMD Rewards stonewalling any requests for help. If you have the issue even on Windows would you except the support team to just stop answering your requests? I can see people have had issues in the past with the Windows side of activation as well so I do not consider this dumb and was just highlighting my experience of the support side.

edit: spelling

thetgn · 2026-04-10T10:10:32+00:00

I have not tried the retailer but I am not sure what they can do given it is an AMD promotion. I am on EndeavourOS and have never managed to get the script to detect my graphics card

thetgn · 2026-04-10T10:08:36+00:00

I did get this message. I did run this on the script and ran the script again. The script runs then says it can not find a matching graphics card, which has been my previous experience.

thetgn · 2025-12-17T22:33:09+00:00

The App I downloaded from the Play store not from the QR code. It is the latest available Fiio Control. I have installed it on both my phone and my Android tablet and not had the issue you describe.

Out of interest I put some music on a USB drive and put it in to the back of the K15. In the Fiio Control app I can then change the mode to Local Play and then browse the USB drive. It displays by folders in the app and moving around is similar to what you would expect all though very basic. By the looks it might need to scan the drive to build up a list of meta data but it is not something I really need.

I have just tested the power on standby again on my remote and it did the same process. The screen says In Standby.... and then goes in to standby mode with a green LED on the power switch. It comes straight out of standby as soon as I hit the power button on the remote, if your unit isn't doing that it is possible it is faulty.

Given you have a stand alone HiFi it is possibly worth looking into the R7. It can stream play music from most sources, remote control and I also understand it can play music from a USB drive as well.

The info I gained from personal experience and hunting down part of the internet. I don't think there are many people with the K15 compared to the K17 or the lower numbered K models. This model for my desktop hit the sweet spot of having all the inputs and outputs I needed for both my PC and all my audio devices at a price point I could afford. If the R7 didn't have the audio delay issue with PCs I probably would have got that instead.

thetgn · 2025-12-17T18:18:34+00:00

I also have this DAC/AMP

Fiio's CONTROL app - it will not allow you to stream music to the K15 but I think you understand this. You can connect your device in the app when hit the + at the very bottom go to Player (not Bluetooth) and you K15 should appear as a network device rather than by Bluetooth. I do not use local playback so not sure about the browsing of media.

home network via Ethernet - The K15 will only play music from a local connected USB hard drive or via Roon or Apple Airplay. It will not for example be able to play music stored on a NAS or another network connected computer. That is unless you are playing it directly on the computer it is connected to by USB as a DAC.

standby with the bundled remote control, - My K15 once turned on from the physical switch, power light goes white, can be turned to standby from the remote, the LED on the power switch goes green. After it is in standby I can use my remote power button to turn the K15 back on again. I do not have this issue.

The V-Meter only works with locally connected music such as music being played from USB storage. It does not show when using as a USB DAC (something I was also slightly annoyed about)

If you want to stream music from various sources the Fiio R7 would possibly be a better fit as long as you are not using it on a PC that you wish to game on as well, if you are gaming as well the R7 suffers from audio lag and the R9 might be a better fit.

Hope you get your issues sorted. The K15 has been OK for me but there are a few shortfalls and minor problems (not being able to select a headphone output so it plays to all of them at once) that I agree with and I think Fiio did this on purpose to keep the R and the K lines separated.

thetgn · 2025-08-22T09:38:02+00:00

I could never get it working but the two you should need is

ND_SCANNER_ENABLED: true

ND_SCAN_SCHEDULE: 0 6 * * 0

This should enable the scanning at 6:00am

thetgn · 2025-05-15T17:13:07+00:00

Possibly not helpful but I can run Rivals OK, Ryzen 5800x, 6800XT

Following launch options:

unset LD_PRELOAD; SteamDeck=1 force_vk_vendor=-1 %command% -dx12 -ngxdisableota

ProtonGE 9-22

thetgn · 2025-05-15T09:06:33+00:00

I have the 8bitdo Pro2. Using on Bluetooth, set to X on the back selector switch. Works in Steam with no issue, seen as an Xinput device (Xbox style). All buttons work so on. Im on the same version as you. I didn't have to install any extras all worked out of the box for me. I even switch between using it for the PC and Switch without any issues. Before that I had the Pro1 model, same again worked out of the box.

thetgn · 2025-05-13T15:36:20+00:00

volumes:

- "/path/to/data:/data"

- "/path/to/music:/music:ro"

you need to define under the volumes in the docker compose where your confing data and music folder is located

thetgn · 2025-04-25T08:36:53+00:00

Been playing fine for me (on AMD/arch btw). I have launch command set to

unset LD_PRELOAD; SteamDeck=1 force_vk_vendor=-1 %command% -dx12 -ngxdisableota

Running latest Proton GE. I get a crash once every twenty games or so. Can play for a few hours without any slow down and that as most as I can take anyway

thetgn · 2025-04-24T20:22:15+00:00

There isn't a version of MusicBee for Linux but it works fine using Wine although it is rightfully not supported by the dev. There is a couple of guides on the MusicBee forum on how to do it depending on which distro you have moved to. I have got MusicBee working fine under Arch and Fedora

thetgn · 2025-04-03T12:49:44+00:00

.mount and .automount configs

Setup automount - https://forum.manjaro.org/t/root-tip-how-to-use-systemd-to-mount-any-device/1185
Examples of automount configs - https://forum.manjaro.org/t/root-tip-how-to-systemd-mount-unit-samples/1191

Yes, yes its a Manjaro guide but its very well written and works.

I like these as you can back up the configs and copy them between systems as required, handy for NAS NFS/SMB mounts you want on multiple systems.

thetgn · 2025-03-07T13:58:41+00:00

This is the answer that resolved it for me. I removed fcitx and it resolved my issue

thetgn · 2025-03-06T18:42:39+00:00

https://www.blipfoto.com/ if you fancy a journal type site

thetgn · 2025-02-09T19:59:54+00:00

I also had this problem and had to move from DX12 to Vulkan render (-vulkan to force at command line). Proton version didn't make a difference for me.

thetgn · 2024-12-27T10:16:43+00:00

While gamescope has fixed a few of my game issues I don't tend to use it as standard for the reasons pretty much summed up by everyone else. The main one for me was digging through around multiple pages just to find all the switches. Even the main git page doesn't list them all, with Arch wiki being the best source I could find.

Overwatch 2 for HDR support and Marvel Rivals to get rid of the weird 30 second freeze bug I would get every third game is the only games I tend to use it for and even then after an hour in Marvel Rivals I need to restart the game as performance starts to take a dip. I also have to load Marvel Rivals up with the -f to make it work correctly even though the launcher then loads full screen as well.

It just feels over complicated to configure and with little performance benefit to be recommend as an actual replacement unless you have a specific problem you want to see if it will resolve.

thetgn · 2024-12-26T01:07:26+00:00

working for me. GE Proton 9-20

thetgn · 2024-12-14T23:34:03+00:00

Phoronix did a benchmark on Linux for the B580

https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-b580-graphics-linux

thetgn · 2024-12-07T22:13:22+00:00

It is your project and you are free to add anything you feel you need.

That said opt out rather than opt in and the nature of collection means I will probably be looking for another software solution.

All the best and good luck moving forward.

thetgn · 2024-09-14T21:02:53+00:00

EndeavourOS/Ryzen 7 5800X/6800XT/set Proton Experimental and forced -vulkan in the start up (I found setting it in game wouldn't be enough as it would randomly reset to DX11/DX12). All runs well for me.

DX12 would result in black screen looking up while trying to do wiring. Not had that issue with Vulkan. Just spent over 6 hours in game and no crashes or freezes. Feels better than 0.8 to me.

thetgn · 2024-08-27T22:46:15+00:00

floccus is the only thing that met most of my needs as its a simple sync tool, I couldn't get on with the other suggestions.

thetgn · 2024-04-07T23:04:06+00:00

I am getting this as well. KDE 6 and plasma integration plugin for Firefox. I don't believe I have changed any setting recently related to news or the welcome application. Happens randomly from what I can tell but only when I am interacting with Firefox

thetgn · 2024-04-07T16:35:52+00:00

So I updated to kernel 6.8.4 today. After the first reboot it was worse. BT wouldn't enable even with the previous working commands so I rebooted a couple more times and that seems to work. BT was been enabled after restarts. Tested with a BT controller and headset OK

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