I had an Xbox360, dumped it because it was an original first run and would constantly die. So I saved the controllers because those were the only things of any value. Fast forward........
I scored a wireless adapter and chat pad. Plugged them in with high hopes..... Derp.
Why after a decade+ of years these drivers not figured out? It should just be uPnP. This should be the "steam" controller!! The manufacturing and distribution is already done, by someone else I might add. There are oceans of left over and unsold xbox360 controllers sitting in empty, soon to be closed, best buys and/or warehouses located in SoCal and China ready to be bought online for pennies on the dollar of their original MSRP!!!!
Newell F'd up and spent a bunch of money developing a controller that few PC gamer gives a sh*t about. Silicon Valley 101; F the box, make the platform work. Once SteamOS gains speed then make a controller.
Furthermore, if I’m a guy sitting on 500,000 useless and near obsolete controllers, I would think paying someone to write a killer kernel driver would be in my best interest to making them valuable again.
Am I wrong? A little heated but from a good place.
Anyway, the 360 controller is a niche piece of hardware compared to say, a WiFi card. Plus, the driver would have to be reverse engineered from the Windows driver and reverse engineering is a huge PITA. Linux driver developers have better things to work on.
Not sure what your doing. But my Xbox controller is plug and play. Dunno if it's a 360 though.. us there a difference?
As said, the issue is these types of drivers have to be reverse engineered, the only people interested (Microsoft) who could do it without reverse engineering have no interest at all in supporting other platforms .
You could always help make them work better .
Also.. steam controller is pretty great to be honest.
Maybe he's on an older long term supported linux destro? Like CentOS for instance dose not come with drivers for newer devices in it's kernel like my Wacom drivers for instance I had to compile them manually. What's pretty easy to do if you sit down and do some reading and take it slowly; then it becomes second nature.
This whole thread is confusion. It sounds like something is not right here, controllers have worked forever and a day, that's playstation or xbox360, Linux even has software to map profiles and turn them into a mouse and keyboard.
Yeah, I'm not really sure what you're on about either. I don't think I had any problems when I wanted to use my controller. Actually, if I remember correctly, I had much more problems getting it to work on Win7 properly. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Steam controller has very little to do with 360 one.
Steam controller was developed specifically to give you reasonably intuitive pointing controls within a form factor of a gamepad. It absolutely murders traditional controllers in terms of aiming accuracy, without the need for any aim assist.
It's also fully configurable and capable of emulating keyboard and mouse to play games not designed to be played with controllers.
It was not made to replace traditional controllers, it was made to make keyboard and mouse unnecessary for PC gaming in the living room.
I plug them in and the button sellection for mupen64plus are dumb, and in kodi it is like the thumbstick is held down. I haven't tried steam yet.
I'm on 14.04, but as a test I booted into 16.04 and had the same issues
I have a logitech rumblepad that works great.
I wanted to add controllers for FCUEX & Mupen64 and use the chat pad for Kodi. But there are issues in every program. The logitech works univerally without issue.
Can I assume that you have looked at the config files ? or/and copied files already ?
If i make that assumption please check that you have copied the configs to the correct place, to be accessed by your user.
Sorry to be vague, but you replied didn't supply me with any information. Happy to assist further
firstly I would try and Identify the driver that is being used. I assume when you say plug-in you are using usb. Try this
#lsusb -v
I personal don't use ubuntu so there may be some idiocracies with kernel and drivers that I don't know. But I seem that assuming the above you may no have loaded the xboxdrv on boot. Unless you added in your /etc/init then you will need to load it terminal when you need it.
The emigration from windows/console fusers has begun...
That's great news!
Welcome and have fun!
PS: Aftermarket generic chinese knock-offs won't work out of the box. Sell those controllers on craigslist or something, and get a proper x360 wired controller. You'll save time and batteries
PS2: Go to steam, go big picture mode and setup the controller, it will work on everything then
The steam controller was going for $35 recently on Amazon, not sure if that is still the case. But there is no need to have a dodgy chinese knockoff that is going to give you an inferior experience, also you shouldn't complain about it, you got what you paid for afterall!
PS. If you use the steamcontroller, Please oh PLEASE use the Steam BETA Client! (otherwise you will be back complaining yet again)