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.worldOP
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    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.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      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.worldOP
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        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 :)