Xbox 360 Controller

[Zonsopkomst]

Hello,

I started a Retroarch Discord converstaion here on the topic, hoping they could help me. I can play N64 games through the Mupen core, however I cannot get my Xbox 360 controller to work. Tried multiple settings. Log file has an error message:
[ERROR] [Wayland]: Failed to connect to Wayland server.
and what looks to be controller related line outputs:
[INFO] [udev]: Pad #0 (/dev/input/event3) supports 0 force feedback effects. [INFO] [udev]: Pad #1 (/dev/input/event20) supports 0 force feedback effects. [INFO] [udev]: Pad #2 (/dev/input/event21) supports 0 force feedback effects.
Also, Xbox 360 controller is working perfectly in non-Retroarch related games.
I'm also already in the 'input' group as a user. Makes me think it is either Wayland or udev (although I cycled through other input drivers). I also received the picture (on Discord) and have tried to configure the Xbox 360 controller in port #1 as well, while making the ASRock and Xbox Gamepad
marked as disabled. I don't understand why these are showing up as there is only the one Xbox 360 controller connected to my PC. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Zonsopkomst

System:
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vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: H570M Pro4 serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: P1.50 date: 04/13/2021
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech M570 serial: <filter> charge: 35%
rechargeable: yes status: Discharging
Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard K360
serial: <filter> charge: 100% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
status: Discharging
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i5-10400 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Comet Lake
family: 6 model-id: 0xA5 (165) stepping: 3 microcode: 0xEA
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache:
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L3: 12 MiB desc: 1x12 MiB
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class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
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driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-1.2:7 chip-ID: 046d:0823
class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
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driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-3:3 chip-ID: 046d:0823
class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
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Network:
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Swap:
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ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 15.5 GiB used: 24.5 MiB (0.2%)
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Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 34.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 47.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 733
Info:
Processes: 379 Uptime: 4h 15m wakeups: 36 Memory: 15.5 GiB
used: 4.57 GiB (29.5%) Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl Compilers:
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v: 3.3.1 default: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.11

[BluishHumility]

Have you tried the xboxdrv driver? It's worth a shot.

[Maynne]

I have used XBox 360 wired controller across many Linux distros such as Elementary, Linux Mint, Kubuntu and now Garuda Linux.

Our only difference is one thing, I use Xorg which is universally supported. I still consider Wayland as a wild west when it comes to application support. Maybe that will change once Valve releases their Steamdeck to the public and provides better support (as it comes with Wayland only by default.)

[jonathon]

Given the controller works in games other than Retroarch it would seem the issue is with Retroarch rather than something in Garuda itself - perhaps, as Maynne suggests, something to do with Wayland.

@Zonsopkomst

Discord

People can’t access links to Discord posts unless they’re in that server, and it also hides it from the public web which makes it much less useful for pretty much everyone. (I have a dim opinion of Discord - it sets out to specifically create closed communities.)

[BluishHumility]

It looks like folks have experienced issues with this controller on Wayland for a while; this thread goes back to 2017.

Toward the bottom of the discussion a fix that worked for a few people is laid out. It involves blacklisting the xpad kernel module and running xboxdrv instead. It might be worth a shot if your Discord stuff doesn't turn up a fix.

[Kayo]

Since your system isn't fully update to date, you might have a RetroArch version that is suffering from the bug outlined here: Controllers not found steam/linux - r/RetroArch

update your system and you should have v 1.9.14 of RetroArch, then try resetting the controls.

[Zonsopkomst]

Hi All,

Thanks for the responses. I had some other items come up and must have not setup this account for notifications via email, so apologies for the delay. As BluishHumility stated, I tried updating the xboxdrv, but still had the same problem. I also uninstalled and reinstalled Retroarch. I cycled through most of the settings in Retroarch and set the input drivers to sdl2 and udev and finally back to x. I really don't know what changed, but I the Xbox 360 controller inexplicably works. I wish I learned something that I could share, but sadly I do not know what caused the controller to work. I've tried Retroarch on three different systems now and it seems finicky to me at least.

Anyways, thanks for all the suggestions!
Zonsopkomst

[Zonsopkomst]

I'm not a fan of Discord either. But it was the route for assistance with Retroarch so I thought I would post it here for reference.

[Zonsopkomst]

I think I have a separate issue on updating my system, as I was using Garuda Assitant to manage updates (this is my media PC which I don't want to maintain, just for fun).

[Zonsopkomst]

Hopefully so!