Cant get roccat hardware support for linux running

Hey guys,

at first I have to say that I'm a complete Linux/Ubuntu newbie.

I just installed Ubuntu 18.04 and got it up and running.

I keep running into issues with gettin this community driver running - while following the INSTALL guide provided i get stuck at the following step:

$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/usr" -DWITH_LUA=5.3 ..

at first the terminal tells me this:
christian@Carl:~/Documents/roccat-tools-5.9.0$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/usr" -DWITH_LUA=5.3 ..
CMake Error: The source directory "/home/christian/Documents" does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt.
Specify --help for usage, or press the help button on the CMake GUI.

after copying the CMakeLists.txt to Documents:
christian@Carl:~/Documents/roccat-tools-5.9.0$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/usr" -DWITH_LUA=5.3 ..
CMake Error: The source directory "/home/christian/Documents" does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt.
Specify --help for usage, or press the help button on the CMake GUI.

I would want to ask, if some of you could help solving this, and if I should do this on another directory or if i can/ have to provide more info.

thanks in advance,
Christian Mayr

Read the INSTALL instructions more carefully, you missed some points (creating build directory and changing into it).

I'm currently not at home, but I also tried that - I'd upload the message I get as soon as I'm at home

big thanks for the quick answer already !

Hi Stefan,

so I started all over again with the unpacking. I get this as output from the Terminal:

christian@Carl:~/Documents$ tar -xjf roccat-tools-5.9.0.tar.bz2
christian@Carl:~/Documents$ cd roccat-tools-5.9.0/
christian@Carl:~/Documents/roccat-tools-5.9.0$ mkdir build
christian@Carl:~/Documents/roccat-tools-5.9.0$ cd build/
christian@Carl:~/Documents/roccat-tools-5.9.0/build$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/usr" -DWITH_LUA=5.3 ..
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 7.4.0
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- compiling for devices arvo;isku;iskufx;kiro;koneplus;konepure;konepuremilitary;konepureoptical;konextd;konextdoptical;kovaplus;kova2016;lua;nyth;pyra;ryosmk;ryosmkfx;ryostkl;savu;skeltr;sova;suora;tyon;kone
-- Found PkgConfig: /usr/bin/pkg-config (found version "0.29.1")
-- Checking for module 'glib-2.0'
-- Found glib-2.0, version 2.56.4
-- Installing libraries in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
-- Installing udev rules in /lib/udev/rules.d
-- Installing eventhandler plugins in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/roccat
-- Compiler supports attribute pack
-- Checking for module 'gthread-2.0'
-- Found gthread-2.0, version 2.56.4
-- Checking for module 'atk'
-- Found atk, version 2.28.1
-- Checking for module 'cairo'
-- Found cairo, version 1.15.10
-- Checking for module 'gdk-2.0'
-- Found gdk-2.0, version 2.24.32
-- Checking for module 'gdk-pixbuf-2.0'
-- Found gdk-pixbuf-2.0, version 2.36.11
-- Checking for module 'glib-2.0'
-- Found glib-2.0, version 2.56.4
-- Checking for module 'gobject-2.0'
-- Found gobject-2.0, version 2.56.4
-- Checking for module 'gtk+-2.0'
-- Found gtk+-2.0, version 2.24.32
-- Checking for module 'pango'
-- Found pango, version 1.40.14
-- Checking for module 'dbus-1'
-- Found dbus-1, version 1.12.2
-- Checking for module 'dbus-glib-1'
-- Found dbus-glib-1, version 0.110
-- Checking for module 'gmodule-2.0'
-- Found gmodule-2.0, version 2.56.4
-- Checking for module 'gudev-1.0'
-- Found gudev-1.0, version 232
-- Checking for module 'x11'
-- Found x11, version 1.6.4
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:81 (FIND_PACKAGE):
By not providing "FindGAMINGGEAR0.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project
has asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by
"GAMINGGEAR0", but CMake did not find one.

Could not find a package configuration file provided by "GAMINGGEAR0"
(requested version 0.15.1) with any of the following names:

GAMINGGEAR0Config.cmake
gaminggear0-config.cmake

Add the installation prefix of "GAMINGGEAR0" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
"GAMINGGEAR0_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files. If
"GAMINGGEAR0" provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it
has been installed.

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/home/christian/Documents/roccat-tools-5.9.0/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
christian@Carl:~/Documents/roccat-tools-5.9.0/build$

Do you have a plan on what to do ? - can I give any further output you'd need or sth like that ?

thanks in advance,
Christian

And again you read the instructions not well enough. There's a point about installing libgaminggear first.

Thanks a lot !

I'm sorry that I was unable of reading properly -.-'

i got it installed but still got a little problem - i added 3 imgs of which I hope, that they explain the issue.

so i checked if there is a roccat group and if I am added, but I'm unable to use the drivers.

the last file is the dev directory.

i hope you can help me

and again - thanks a lot for the help so far, and sorry for the not reading part

Dear Stefan:

I have been using your Linux drivers for some time now on an older Ubuntu OS. I recently did a fresh install of Ubuntu MATE 18.04.2 on clean, new hardware. I re-installed the driver from the official repository, and added myself to the "roccat" group. I then re-cycled the
~/.config/gaminggear/gaminggear_macros.ini
file from my old setup. So far, so good: I can see the existing macros, and can even edit them. What I cannot seem to do is install them into the keyboard (a Ryos MK): I click "Apply", I click "File|Store all in device", I even tried unplugging and re-plugging the keyboard, and--of course--re-booting. But the keyboard continues to generate the old macro outputs.

Please, what am I doing wrong? I really need this wonderful device, and your correspondingly wonderful driver, to work for me.

Thank you.