Razer Polychromatic not loading (Finish...)

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For those of you trying to fix the bug in Razer Polychromatic not finishing initialization and letting you go to devices (KBD, Mouse)… After you have tried all the other recommendations; ie (groups, other software packs, etc…)

Run:

openrazer-daemon -Fv

to check for initialization errors.
If you see a permissions error, the following will probably fix it.

Try:

sudo chmod 777 /dev/input/*

After trying everything else, this was the only action that fixed it.

Please feel free to move this to a more suitable group if needed.

john

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Welcome to the forum! :vulcan_salute:

That’s not going to do you any good, because the contents of /dev are on a tmpfs, and are recreated with the default permissions upon every boot. So anything you change to the permissions under /dev is going to be undone again from the moment you shut down the machine.

A much better solution would therefore be to create a udev rule for whatever this device is — I honestly have no idea :man_shrugging:. The Arch Wiki will tell you how… :backhand_index_pointing_down:

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I’m having no issues myself with a Razer mouse and keyboard. Polychromatic will not work unless the OpenRazer daemon is working properly.

Please see the OpenRazer Troubleshooting Guide:

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yes, I setup an autostart in my shell:


### sudo chmod 777 /dev/input/*;nohup openrazer-daemon -Fv > /dev/null 2>&1 &
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There’s a user service, I don’t think you need to do that.

systemctl --user enable --now openrazer-daemon

Do not forget to add your current user to the group openrazer with the command

# gpasswd -a $USER openrazer

– Razer peripherals - ArchWiki

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