Wireless xbox360 controller not working with ppsspp and wine. Works with everything else

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#1

Hello again.

No idea if this should be here or in hardware, but since the controller is working… I flipped a coin.

Using openSUSE 13.2, KDE

Steps to reproduce
1.Install ppsspp from packman
2.Install xboxdrv from hardware3.Install supertuxkart and antimicro (This one from hardware too)
4."# rmmod xpad"
5.Start xboxdrv
“sudo xboxdrv”
6.Test it with antimicro and supertuxkart → It works!
7.Try it with some windows game → it doens’t work
8.Try to map the controls in ppsspp → it doesn’t work

Other information
1.Kde joystick settings detects the controller, when I push a button, when I move a stick, everything.
2."$ wine control" → game controllers → It detects 2: (js0) and (event). → test joystick tab → It works there
Tried with the two enabled and one of the two disabled in a game. It didn’t work
3.Tried with “$ systemctl enable xboxdrv” → It didn’t work. Disabled it later
4.Tried different commands (It don’t know what they do, I saw the suggestions somewhere):
a.sudo xboxdrv -l 2 --type xbox360-wireless --device-by-id 045e:0719 --mimic-xpad
b.sudo xboxdrv --type xbox360
c.sudo xboxdrv --type xbox360 --mimic-xpad
It didn’t work
5.Tried with xpad. Same problems plus the annoying blinking lights
6.Yes, I know I can use antimicro as a workaround

sudo xboxdrv prints this

Controller: Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless Controller (PC)
Vendor/Product: 045e:0719
USB Path: 003:005
Wireless Port: 0
Controller Type: Xbox360 (wireless)

Your Xbox/Xbox360 controller should now be available as:
/dev/input/js0
/dev/input/event16

dmesg prints this

usb 3-1: new full-speed USB device number 7 using xhci_hcd
usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=045e, idProduct=0719
usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 3-1: Product: Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver for Windows
usb 3-1: Manufacturer: ©Microsoft
usb 3-1: SerialNumber: E036C2A0
input: Xbox Gamepad (userspace driver) as /devices/virtual/input/input44

This is the controller. The page is in spanish. Watch the second picture

#2

I’m not sure this will help, but it’s worth a try if it does. Try using the command “su -”. It will ask you for root’s password and you’ll be root. Then, run your command (for example, xboxdrv). It may, or may not, do what you were hoping to do. Worth a try, though.

#3

@Kerijan2003: Thanks for answering, but it didn’t work. I found why:

Wine
Wine is working as intended. Xboxdrv manpage (should have read that first) says that wine will detect the controllers as generic dinput ones, so any game that searches for xbox controllers (games that use xinput, I guess) will not pick them up, again, because wine labels them as a generic dinput ones, not as xbox ones.
I use antimicro as a workaround

ppsspp
I sent a message to the mailing list. Here it is the answer they gave me.
In short: packman’s ppsspp will have joystick support in 1.0.1, where this issue was addressed. And they give a workaround: Start ppsspp like this: “env SDL_JOYSTICK_ALLOW_BACKGROUND_EVENTS=1 ppsspp”. It works :slight_smile: