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docs(linux): native adaptive triggers confirmed on Steam AND Heroic, flag-free

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Verified 2026-06-07: Cyberpunk on GOG/Heroic fires adaptive triggers in
real gameplay, 1:1 with Steam. Corrects the recipe across README,
CHANGELOG, and the new DUALSENSE_GAME_LIST.md:
  - no launch option needed on Wine 11 (PROTON_ENABLE_HIDRAW now legacy)
  - works on BOTH Steam and Heroic; Heroic needs Steam fully quit + no
    global PROTON_PREFER_SDL
  - XInput-only games (Ghostrunner, Control) give rumble but no triggers
    by engine design, not a dongle limit
  - OpenRGB confirmed a non-issue

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Headline: **native DualSense adaptive triggers now fire in real PC games on Linux/Proton — through the dongle, 1:1 with a wired controller.** For weeks the triggers only ever worked in the on-dongle OLED self-test, never in a game: the dongle was *recognised*, but games fell back to a generic/Xbox pad and never sent trigger effects. The root cause was three ways the dongle's USB presentation differed from genuine Sony hardware — each one accepted by Linux's `hid_playstation` (which only checks size + CRC) but **rejected by a game's native DualSense detection, which validates the actual content**. Closing all three makes the dongle byte-for-byte indistinguishable from a real DS5 to the game.
**Host-side recipe (required alongside this firmware):** run the game on a Proton that carries the Wine `winebus.sys` **#9034** fix (Wine 11 / current Proton-GE — the bug suppresses the SDL gamepad device when a hidraw device exists for the same VID/PID, so the pad shows up everywhere *except* in-game), set `PROTON_ENABLE_HIDRAW=0x054c/0x0ce6` in the launch options, and **disable Steam Input** (native path). With a real DS5 this "just works"; the firmware changes below make the dongle match.
**Host-side recipe (required alongside this firmware):** run the game on a Proton that carries the Wine `winebus.sys` **#9034** fix (Wine 11 / current Proton-GE — the bug suppresses the SDL gamepad device when a hidraw device exists for the same VID/PID, so the pad shows up everywhere *except* in-game) and **disable Steam Input** (native path). **No launch option is needed** — Wine 11 enables the hidraw native path by default. Works on **both Steam and Heroic** (on Heroic, fully quit Steam so it can't grab the pad, and keep any global `PROTON_PREFER_SDL` off). The game must natively support DualSense — XInput-only titles give rumble but no adaptive triggers. With a real DS5 this "just works"; the firmware changes below make the dongle match.
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