HOTAS undetected since last stable update

Greetings,

Since last stable update (2025-08-11), my HOTAS isn’t detected by games anymore (Elite Dangerous and DCS World) .

It’s a Saitek Pro Flight X-56 Rhino Throttle and stick.

It is detected in the OS, in the KDE game controller panel, and in steam (controller menu).

Correctly listed under lsusb, no errors seen with udevadm monitor and udevadm verify.

Only my rudder pedal is working (Saitek Pro Flight Rudder Pedals), for witch i had to add tweaks (before this update) in custom UDEV file in /etc/udev/rules.d/ in order to make it detected by the OS. (with the help of some posts on the x-plane and ubuntu forum)

Although i tried to add the same workaround i did for my rudder pedals in UDEV custom config files, but it changed nothing.

Already tried other Kernels 6.16.0-5, 6.15.9-2 and 6.12.41-1.

Tried to switch between multiple Proton versions and Proton-GE, disabled steam input just in case too.
But none of all that works.

I don’t know were to look to find which packages changes might be responsible for this problem.

I might not be the only sim dude to have this problem, but didn’t found any other clues online since the update is fresh.

Thanks for all inputs you can give !

Replying to myself for future search,

I have found a workaround by forcing launch parameters options in steam, by adding :

PROTON_ENABLE_HIDRAW=0xVID/0xPID

Replacing VID and PID by corresponding values found in lsusb

For me it is for both devices :

PROTON_ENABLE_HIDRAW=0x0738/0xA221,0x0738/0x2221
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