I made the mistake of believing some dumb guide online that recommended the Razer BlackShark v2 Pro for Linux. Literally the volume control is broken out of the box lol.
I just want a wireless headset. For listening to audio. And a mic. Don’t care for fancy features. Apparently too much to ask for a linux user.
What are y’all using and how is it working for you?
Razer anything is terrible for Linux. avoid in the future.
Yeah lesson learned lol. I figured, I don’t need the fancy features. Turns out volume control is a fancy feature. And I’m not even talking about the volume wheel on the headphones. I’m saying, adjusting my system volume barely affects the headphone volume.
I have this issue because I have the same one. I have to reseat the usb dongle if I ever boot into a different OS or the volume control on bazzite won’t work next time I use it. Like I turn the volume up and down but the headphones stay the same volume. Once I do that, I can control the volume properly and I won’t have to do it again until I boot into a different OS (dual booted with win 11). I have the profile in bazzite’s audio devices for the Blackshark set to “Pro Audio”. Seems to work for me, maybe it can help passing it along?
On the contrary, I have an old Razer Basalisk v3 mouse, and it works perfectly with linux. I installed openrazer to controll the rgb and everything works perfectly.
that’s a pretty basic mouse, but sure.
i’ll never recommend them. just not a Linux friendly company. one can do better
How? Mine have worked fine. At least until today when part of the plastic snapped but they are over 5 years old. Going to try glue it tomorrow.
May look for a replacement sometime, always used wired so far.
Razer stuff is fine in Linux. I use several different Razer products on Linux and they all work fine, including Arch Linux on my Razer Blade 14 laptop. Their protocols are pretty well understood at this point on most of their devices.
i stopped using them years ago when everything sucked.
if it improved, good, tho clearly not enough for OP.
i’ll never recommend them. just not a Linux friendly company. one can do better