{"id":260309,"date":"2026-05-31T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/linux-7-1-rc6-to-support-the-asus-rog-raikiri-ii-nova-2-lite-controllers\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T10:25:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T14:25:21","slug":"linux-7-1-rc6-to-support-the-asus-rog-raikiri-ii-nova-2-lite-controllers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/linux-7-1-rc6-to-support-the-asus-rog-raikiri-ii-nova-2-lite-controllers\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux 7.1-rc6 To Support The ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II &#038; Nova 2 Lite Controllers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Linux-7.1-rc6-Input\">Linux 7.1-rc6 To Support The ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II &#038; Nova 2 Lite Controllers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Linux-7.1-rc6-Input\">https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Linux-7.1-rc6-Input<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-31 09:59:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.phoronix.com\">www.phoronix.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc6 test kernel due out later today, this week&#8217;s batch of input subsystem fixes have been sent out that includes enabling a few newer input devices.<\/p>\n<p>First up the common XPad controller driver used by various Xbox style controllers is adding support for the ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II. At the beginning of May I wrote about Linux support coming for this $160 high-end gaming controller while now it&#8217;s part of the &#8220;fixes&#8221; pull to make it into the current Linux 7.1 kernel series.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=asus_raikiri_2_med\" alt=\"ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II features 1KHz polling, TMR joysticks, dual-mode triggers, micro-switch buttons, and USB-C \/ Bluetooth \/ 2.4GHz RF connectivity options. The RAIKIRI II controller features a physical switch for putting it in PC or Xbox gaming modes. With just needing new device IDs, this is a safe addition for the current Linux 7.1 kernel cycle rather than holding it off until the v7.2 merge window in a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=gamesir_med\" alt=\"GameSir Nova 2 Lite controller\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Separately, the XPad driver is adding support for the GameSir Nova 2 Lite controller. The GameSir Nova 2 Lite is a wireless game controller that retails for just $30~35 USD.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s input pull request also updates the Synaptics touchpad driver for using the RMI mode for the touchpad on the Lenovo ThinkPad E490. Plus a few other small fixes in the input area of the kernel. These changes should be merged prior to the Linux 7.1-rc6 kernel release coming in the hours ahead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Linux-7.1-rc6-Input\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux 7.1-rc6 To Support The ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II &#038; Nova 2 Lite Controllers https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Linux-7.1-rc6-Input&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":260311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&image=gamesir","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-260309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260313,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260309\/revisions\/260313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}