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Xbox controller over dongle (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello fellow Linux gamers!

I've recently switched to nobara for gaming. I've had no real issues so far and it's all running smoothly! Queue my Xbox controller.

A year or two ago I bought an Xbox wireless control ( 2020 version according to the order ). Now I wanted to use the controller, but it is not being detected. The light keeps blinking. On nobara itself it looks like it mounted the dongle as a USB Stick.

That would explain why the controller isn't connecting.

How would I best go at tackling this? Any tips? I've already ran the following command:

nobara-controller-config

This installed some drivers and required a reboot ( which I did ).

Thanks in advance for any guidance or tips!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

install xone

https://github.com/medusalix/xone

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It seems it was part of the solution!

When I tried to install it using install.sh I got the message that it was already installed.

I had a look at dmesg and found the following entries:

[ 1634.510594] xone-dongle 3-2:1.0: Direct firmware load for xow_dongle.bin failed with error -2
[ 1634.510601] xone-dongle 3-2:1.0: xone_mt76_load_firmware: firmware not found
[ 1634.510604] xone-dongle 3-2:1.0: xone_dongle_init: load firmware failed: -2
[ 1634.511456] xone-dongle: probe of 3-2:1.0 failed with error -2

Inside the repository I cloned I found an install/ directory with a firmware.sh file in there. I ran that as root and it installed the driver.

I plugged in the dongle again and it worked immediately!

( I looked at what the script did first though ).

Thanks for the help!

[+] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Those are the steps I took as described in the README.md. Nobara added a custom command called nobara-controller-config which installs the xone drivers. I guess something must have gone wrong there that the dongle firmware was missing. https://nobaraproject.org/docs/xbox-controllers/known-issues/

I might have just missed it.

Running the third step of the README.md leaves me with this output:

sudo ./install.sh 
Driver is already installed!

I assume there is no xone-get-firmware.sh file in the xone directory as a result.

All is well that ends well :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Read what the other guy told you, see if your distro has a package for this instead of following the readme file, otherwise you'll need to run that every time your kernel updates. There's a reason we recommend people to use the package manager and to forget the windows mentality of installing things by random means.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The Nobara-controller-config command is the is way to install it as far as I can tell by the docs. I'll try reinstalling it that way and see if it recognises it by default.

I agree that the package manager way is the preferred way to go. I fell back to the github repo because it didn't work :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Probably need to uninstall the xone driver you already installed from that link. Then open the welcome screen again (super key + type welcome, should be there) and there's an option to install the xone and xpadneo drivers already setup for nobara on one of the tabs there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah I didn't reply anymore, but I did an uninstall, removed the dongle, rebooted, reinstalled it, rebooted, plugged in the dongle and it instantly worked.

I must've done something wrong the first time #pebcak

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I will try that later today!