Help i am starting with linux

[DaBiggestSeal]

Hey, i have 2 problems: 1-installing SignalRGB, Wine gives me error: please re-run this installer as a normal user instead of run as administrator. Does someone know how to fix it?

                                        2-is there a way to get my games that are on my 2nd drive detected by steam, epic games and my "definitely not cracked" games to just work?

[Alex Atkin UK]

55 minutes ago, DaBiggestSeal said:

Hey, i have 2 problems: 1-installing SignalRGB, Wine gives me error: please re-run this installer as a normal user instead of run as administrator. Does someone know how to fix it?

                                        2-is there a way to get my games that are on my 2nd drive detected by steam, epic games and my "definitely not cracked" games to just work?

I'd be very surprised if you can get SignalRGB working as its highly unlikely WINE exposes the RGB controller interfaces in a way it would expect.  I also very much doubt it would work with game integration even if it could work at all.

 

In theory if you add a library to Steam pointing to the games on your Windows drive, it should add them.  This can be fiddly though.  I doubt you can do the same with Epic Games as you have to use the unofficial Heroic Games Launcher.

 

Generic games you should be able to just add to Steam like you would on Windows.

 

Now how many of these games will work, who knows.  Obviously better chances with games verified as Steam Deck compatible.

[C2dan88]

7 hours ago, DaBiggestSeal said:

Hey, i have 2 problems: 1-installing SignalRGB, Wine gives me error: please re-run this installer as a normal user instead of run as administrator. Does someone know how to fix it?

SignalRGB does not support linux.

Wine cannot run bare metal windows apps that need access to hardware, such as rgb controllers

 

Linux alternative would be openRGB.

https://openrgb.org/index.html

[DaBiggestSeal]

Hey, thanks for your ideas, but none of them worked

1-openRGB does not register any devices

2-i tried adding games to steam, but not a single 1 fired up. No generic games, no epic games games, not even steam games (even with proton turned on)

Like i've said, thanks for your ideas. Do you have any more ideas?

[Ralphred]

15 hours ago, DaBiggestSeal said:

Do you have any more ideas?

Post the outputs of 

cat /etc/fstab
grep "^/" /proc/mounts
uname -a

and tell us the path to the games please...

[thiccbeard4linux]

I've never used openRGB (I have no RGB), but it may need to run as root or you may need to add yourself to a specific group for it to have access to the hardware.  Start by trying to run it from a terminal window with sudo before the command.

[Xiee]

18 hours ago, DaBiggestSeal said:

1-openRGB does not register any devices

OpenRGB requires some tinkering to work.

 

I've got an Asus Prime B550 motherboard and Corsair Vengeance PRO RGB RAM that weren't detected at first. OpenRGB will spew out an error telling you what needs to be done. What error message did you get? 

[DaBiggestSeal]

8 hours ago, Ralphred said:

Post the outputs of 

cat /etc/fstab
grep "^/" /proc/mounts
uname -a

Sorry that i just pasted what did it spit on me, but i cannot read linux terminal

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=5781b2e4-cb45-44c8-b550-29d18692ef15 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /boot/efi was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=2CF3-B33B  /boot/efi       vfat    umask=0077      0       1
/swapfile                                 none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/sdb2 / ext4 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /boot/efi vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0077,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro 0 0
Linux DaBiggestSeal 5.15.0-76-generic #83-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 15 19:16:32 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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and tell us the path to the games please...

there are 3

1. steam games- /media/dabiggestseal/my second drive/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common
2. epic games- /media/dabiggestseal/my second drive/Epic Games 2
3. cracked games- /media/dabiggestseal/my second drive/Games/Game Folders

5 hours ago, Xiee said:

What error message did you get? 

I didnt get any error message. I feel now kinda dumb so if you could tell me where should i look for error messages?

I am sorry that i am making this hard to you all but i really dont know that much about linux than i initially thought ive had.

[Xiee]

24 minutes ago, DaBiggestSeal said:

I didnt get any error message. I feel now kinda dumb so if you could tell me where should i look for error messages?

OpenRGB will usually display an error when you start it for the first time when something is off. For me, the error I got was due to the SMB bus or something that I needed to set and run so that openRGB could detect the lights on my Corsair memory. 

If you didn't get an error message then that would mean it should be working with no issues. You might need to set it up manually first like enabling it to run every time Linux starts and loading a settings profile automatically. It's a bit long to explain here, but the FAQ on openRGB's website should help out.

[E-waste]

Are you able to ADD the folder in steam?

 

If you cannot ADD the folder, and I emphasize this because it is a clear issue of storage permissions, then you must add the directory into you fstab file

 

sudo nano /etc/fstab

 

Generally if you copy the first line and paste it under that, but change the /dev/sd part and the directory path, and set the last two numbers to 0 0 (meaning no disk check) you are usually good to go, and it will be mountable in steam.

 

To see the error

 

open a command prompt, right click the title bar, and choose "always on top" so you don'y have to scroll back up to find the error message if more messages are printed.

 

steam

 

press enter.

 

Try adding the folder again, if steam does not display an error message in the gui, look at the command line output.