User reports periodic clicks and LED color changes on the controller
"between races". Theory: out-of-race, the run loop was calling
reset_triggers(controller) AND apply_lightbar(controller, ...) on
every Forza packet (60Hz). Even though both call sites land in
library code that nominally dedupes "same state" writes, in practice
any state change anywhere — including the lightbar dropping a green
channel value as RPM coasts down to idle — triggers a full HID OUT
report rewrite. The OUT report carries the trigger configuration too;
the controller firmware reacts on receipt and produces an audible
click each time.
Fix: out-of-race path becomes edge-triggered. On the in-race → menu
transition we run state.reset() + reset_all() once (turning both
triggers off and the lightbar to (0,0,0)). Subsequent menu packets
make no controller calls at all until in_race flips back to True.
First in-race packet then re-engages handlers and the RPM-driven
lightbar.
Side effect: the menu-mode car-class lightbar coloring is gone — the
bar stays black between races. If we want it back later, it should
be one-shot on the menu transition (NOT updated per-packet). For now
keep it simple: in-race only.
Build clean; tests unchanged (54/54 still pass — they exercise
handlers directly, not the run loop).
Live strace on yarn during gameplay revealed the daemon was correctly
calling effect.vibration(freq=35) on slip events, but the OUT report
on the wire showed mode=0x26 (VIBRATION) with byte 31 (param9 =
frequency) = 0. The controller firmware treats freq=0 as "no
oscillation" — trigger sits silent in vibration mode. That's why the
user reported "doesn't react to slipping or anything" even after the
pedal-off early-return fix.
Root cause is in dualsense-controller 0.3.1 itself:
- WriteStates.__init__ registers individual write-states for trigger
effect params 1-7 only. params 8/9/10 are not registered.
- update_out_report copies from per-state values to the OutReport,
again only params 1-7.
- The OutReport dataclass DEFINES params 1-10 (with defaults of 0)
and Usb01OutReport.to_bytes writes all 10 to the wire.
- effect.vibration() puts frequency in param9 — silently dropped.
- Same hits effect.machine() (params 8,9,10) and effect.galloping()
(param10). effect.feedback/weapon/bow only use params 1-7 so
they happen to work.
Fix is a small upstream-style patch added under patches/dualsense-
controller/ and wired into the dualsense-controller derivation in
hosts/yarn/forza-trigger/python-packages.nix via the patches attr:
in update_out_report, after the param7 assignments, read param8/9/10
directly from the parent TriggerEffect state value (which already
carries them correctly from the call site through _set_value).
Verified post-patch by source-reading the installed library:
out_report.left_trigger_effect_param9 = self.left_trigger_effect.value.param9
out_report.right_trigger_effect_param9 = self.right_trigger_effect.value.param9
(and 4 more for left/right param8/10)
Build-sandbox tests (54/54) pass via the forza-trigger-tests build
gate; full yarn NixOS closure builds clean.
Filing upstream against yesbotics/dualsense-controller-python is the
follow-up; until then this is a local patch.
Live diagnostic on yarn revealed the daemon was receiving 324-byte FH5
packets correctly (5.7MB on the systemd socket; strace showed steady
recvfrom + write to /dev/hidraw7) but writing trigger mode 0x05
(no-resistance) on nearly every tick. Cause: `accel` and `brake` are
0 most of the time during normal play (off-throttle on straight
sections, off-brake when not braking). Both handlers had:
if accel/255 <= THROTTLE_INPUT_THRESHOLD: effect.off(); return
if brake/255 <= BRAKE_INPUT_THRESHOLD: effect.off(); return
Every off-pedal packet set the trigger to OFF. Brief pedal-on moments
set vibration. The result: rapidly oscillating off↔vibration state,
imperceptible at 60 Hz packet rate.
These early-returns were holdovers from the previous Race-Element 1:1
port (variant A), which IS designed to be silent unless slipping.
Variant D's whole point is "always feels something" — Cosmii has no
pedal-off gate, and its baseline branch produces feedback even at
brake=0/accel=0 with strength clamped to MIN.
Fix: remove both early-returns. Foot-off-pedal flows through the
baseline branch and produces feedback(strength=MIN_*_RESISTANCE). The
user feels light constant resistance instead of silence. Trigger only
returns to physical-rest when out-of-race (run-loop's reset_triggers).
Also drop the now-dead BRAKE_INPUT_THRESHOLD / THROTTLE_INPUT_THRESHOLD
constants. Two tests renamed and updated to assert MIN-strength
baseline feedback instead of effect.off() on zero pedal.
54/54 tests pass. Build clean.
nixpkgs' proton-ge-bin (the package wired into programs.steam.extra-
CompatPackages via modules/desktop-steam.nix) registers in Steam's
compat-tool list under its versioned id, currently GE-Proton10-34.
steam-config-nix's README example uses the unversioned string
"GE-Proton", which on a fresh boot wrote that literal value into
localconfig.vdf — Steam resolved it to no installed tool and silently
fell back to bundled Proton 10. FH5 then launched on stock Proton,
which doesn't pick up PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE the way GE does.
Drop both `compatTool` (per-app) and `defaultCompatTool` (global).
The wrapper-based launchOptions.env path is unaffected — env vars
still pass through to whatever Proton Steam ends up using. Tool
selection goes back to manual Steam UI > Properties > Compatibility.
A versioned pin (`compatTool = "GE-Proton10-34";`) would work but
couples the host config to whatever the proton-ge-bin nixpkgs entry
ships this week; not worth the maintenance.
Replaces three handfuls of custom code with upstream / static data:
- Per-app Steam launch options now declared via different-name/steam-
config-nix's `programs.steam.config.apps.<n>` instead of a custom
~70-line `apply_launch_options` Python function. The dropped writer
was racy: it edited localconfig.vdf without checking for a running
Steam, so any timer firing while Steam was open would lose its
changes on the next Steam shutdown. steam-config-nix's `closeSteam`
flag closes that race.
Also moves the GE-Proton compat-tool pin to declarative config —
one fewer manual click in Steam UI to remember.
- `mods.<>.launchOptions` option, the `launchOptionsData` aggregation,
and `LAUNCH_OPTIONS_DATA` are removed from desktop-game-mods.nix.
The module now does file-drops only; Steam config lives in its own
`programs.steam.config` namespace, where it belongs.
fh5-vkd3d-no-hvv (which existed only to set VKD3D_CONFIG) collapses
into the FH5 launchOptions block in hosts/yarn/default.nix.
- `unitConfig.X-ConfigHash` on game-mods.service is replaced with
`restartTriggers`. NixOS already emits `X-Restart-Triggers=<hash>`
on the unit; the workaround was redundant. The Type=oneshot,
RemainAfterExit=no semantics make `systemctl restart` re-run
ExecStart cleanly on hash change.
- The awk pipeline that patched OptiScaler's stock OptiScaler.ini at
build time is replaced with a hand-written hosts/yarn/optiscaler-
fh5-rdna3.ini containing only the keys we override (5 of them).
OptiScaler's Config::readString defaults missing keys to "auto"
(Config.cpp:1568), so a minimal file is sufficient. Side benefits:
one upstream-source dependency removed, a key-rename in upstream
becomes a behavior change rather than a silent awk-no-match.
Override values + sources:
Fsr4Update=true FH5 wiki, FSR4 Linux Setup
DlssReactiveMaskBias=0.65 FH5 wiki, "Known Issues"
FsrNonLinearColorSpace=true FSR4 wiki, "Image Quality"
EnableFsr2Inputs=false FH5 wiki, "Known Issues"
Dxgi=false FH5 wiki
- forza-trigger's three custom Python derivations (pydualsense,
hidapi-usb, fdp) factored out of default.nix into a sibling
python-packages.nix. Same logic, single-purpose file. Bumping a
version is now a one-place hash roll.
- pkgs.dualsensectl removed from the daemon's environment.system-
Packages. Single-shot writes from the CLI get clobbered by the BG
sendReport thread within ~4ms anyway, so the tool is only useful
with the daemon stopped — not worth the unconditional install.
Bring it in ad-hoc with `nix-shell -p dualsensectl`.
Drops OptiScaler v0.9.1 + a FH5-tuned OptiScaler.ini into the FH5
install dir to unlock FSR 4 INT8 on this RDNA 3 (Navi 32) box.
OptiScaler intercepts FH5's DLSS/XeSS calls and reroutes them through
the bundled FFX SDK. Per the OptiScaler FH5 wiki page: rename
OptiScaler.dll to dxgi.dll, set Dxgi=false, DlssReactiveMaskBias=0.65,
and Fsr4Update=true for the INT8 RDNA 3 path.
Sets Steam launch options PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE=1 and
DXIL_SPIRV_CONFIG=wmma_rdna3_workaround on fh5-optiscaler (the FSR 4
wiki documents both as required for RDNA 3 on Linux).
fh5-vkd3d-no-hvv is its own mod (no files, just one launchOptions
entry for VKD3D_CONFIG=no_upload_hvv) so the upload-hvv workaround
can be removed when a future Proton release fixes the underlying
issue without disturbing the OptiScaler config.
Extends the intro skip stub to cover the hires variant of the
T10/Microsoft Studios splash; the engine picks SD or hires based on
the installed asset profile, so stub both per PCGamingWiki.
agenix activation runs from initrd-nixos-activation-start, which fires
right after /sysroot/persistent is mounted but before impermanence's
stage-2 bind mounts. The TPM identity at /var/lib/agenix/tpm-identity
was therefore unreadable at activation time, and every secret silently
failed to decrypt: 'no readable identities found'. Visible downstream
fallout was pull-update-apply hitting HTTP 401 against the binary cache
because nix-cache-netrc was never written to /run/agenix.
Mark /var/lib/agenix as neededForBoot via a bare fileSystems entry,
mirroring the existing /home/${username} bind. Drop the now-redundant
environment.persistence directory entry to avoid two competing units.
Steam interprets exit 0 from 'steamos-update check' as 'update applied
successfully' and shows a persistent 'update available' notification.
The SteamOS convention is exit 7 = no update available.
new site-config.nix holds values previously duplicated across hosts:
domain, old_domain, contact_email, timezone, binary_cache (url + pubkey),
dns_servers, lan (cidr + gateway), hosts.{muffin,yarn} (ip/alias/ssh_host_key),
ssh_keys.{laptop,desktop,ci_deploy}.
threaded through specialArgs on all three hosts + home-manager extraSpecialArgs +
homeConfigurations.primary + serverLib. service-configs.nix now takes
{ site_config } as a function arg and drops its https namespace; per-service
domains (gitea/matrix/ntfy/mollysocket/livekit/firefox-sync/grafana) are
derived from site_config.domain. ~15 service files and 6 vm tests migrated.
breakage fixes rolled in:
- home/progs/zen/dark-reader.nix: 5 stale *.gardling.com entries in
disabledFor rewritten to *.sigkill.computer (caddy 301s the old names so
these never fired and the new sigkill urls were getting dark-reader applied)
- modules/desktop-common.nix: drop unused hugepagesz=1G/hugepages=3
kernelParams (no consumer on mreow or yarn; xmrig on muffin still reserves
its own via services/monero/xmrig.nix)
verification: muffin toplevel is bit-identical to pre-refactor baseline.
mreow/yarn toplevels differ only in boot.json kernelParams + darkreader
storage.js (nix-diff verified). deployGuardTest and fail2banVaultwardenTest
(latter exercises site_config.domain via bitwarden.nix) pass.
