The ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II is a recently-launched wireless gaming controller for both PC and Xbox gaming. This is a premium controller priced at $160 USD and has been receiving positive reviews under Windows while now it will soon be seeing mainline Linux support.

The ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II features 1KHz polling, TMR joysticks, dual-mode triggers, micri-switch buttons, and USB-C / Bluetooth / 2.4GHz RF connectivity options. The ROG RAIKIRI II was developed alongside the ROG Ally gaming handheld at ASUS to pair well. The controller also features a physical switch for putting it in PC or Xbox gaming modes.

The ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II looks to be a very nice wireless controller albeit expensive with it retailing for around $160 USD at the likes of [1]Amazon (affiliate link).

Similar to the 2024 patch activity for [2]Linux support with the original ASUS ROG Raikiri controller , support for the RAIKIRI II is now coming and similarly via the existing XPad driver that supports many of the Xbox gaming controllers under Linux.

[3]This patch was posted yesterday to the Linux kernel mailing list for adding the proper vendor and product IDs for this controller. Due to that PC / Xbox toggle switch, the device ID changes and thus extra IDs are needed for identifying this controller in either mode.

The support patch is already [4]queued into the input subsystem's "for-linus" Git branch and thus should be submitted as part of the input "fixes" for the ongoing Linux 7.1 kernel cycle.



[1] https://amzn.to/42Geb2V

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-ROG-Raikiri-Linux

[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260430183522.122151-1-contact@zharov.dev/

[4] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input.git/commit/?h=for-linus&id=c897cf120696b94f56ed0f3197ba9a77071a59ec