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!

    • fluckx@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      7 months ago

      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!

        • fluckx@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          7 months ago

          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 :)

          • Nibodhika@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            7 months ago

            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.

            • fluckx@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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              7 months ago

              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 :)