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PayPalDid you do a big system upgrade recently and notice you're having gamepad issues? You're not alone. Time to downgrade perhaps.
To be clear this might only be an issue for the more bleeding-edge distributions which update more often, or those of you who are doing some manual updates to their system. The distributions that update more slowly like Ubuntu are likely unaffected right now.
First we have systemd version 243 released around September 3rd, this appears to be causing problems with Steam Input. A Valve developer jumped into the comments there, to note that the update seems to have broken Steam's udev rules to support gamepads—ouch. The systemd developers have been responsive trying to fix it, so hopefully it won't be too long before the issue is solved there.
Another problem is the more recent release of the Linux Kernel 5.3, which appears to have a regression with the DualShock 4 over Bluetooth not working. As of yet, no Kernel developer has commented on that report.
Hat tip to Vash63.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
sudo modprobe uinput to get the Steam Controller working in-game.Even after that, some games did not detect my buttons, so I even reinstalled the OS. Now it's working with modprobe.
Thank you for the tip, I didn't found any solution before.
Have not played games with a controller recently.
Hope the modprobe is enough to fix it.
hallieballie Sep 16, 2019
When you need to debug form a rescue environment, it is very difficult to see what went wrong, to access logging is science these days.
The time with init scripts was heaven, now we are in hell.
Quoting: hallieballieI really do not understand why systemd is so great, it is an annoying system to deal with.
When you need to debug form a rescue environment, it is very difficult to see what went wrong, to access logging is science these days.
The time with init scripts was heaven, now we are in hell.
When you need to debuf from a rescue environment with the old init scripts you would be lucky if you where able to find any form of logs at all. On a systemd system though everything can be found with journalctl, even things that daemons wrote to stderr or stdout are caught.
As a server admin, systemd is the single best thing that have happened to Linux since the kernel.
Avehicle7887 Sep 16, 2019
On the other hand however, I upgraded to 5.3 this morning and everything went smooth, the nvidia driver also works fine with it. Also worth pointing out that this release contains a fix for system hangs when using Vulkan on Intel HD with Kabylake (7xxx CPUs).
Last edited by Avehicle7887 on 16 September 2019 at 9:41 pm UTC
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