xboxdrv apparently blocked xbox controller

Mark

4/10/24, 5:53 PM

I own a Gioteck VX4PS4-34-MU XBox Controller and it was recognized by Ubuntu 22.10:

$ lsusb | grep Xbox360
Bus 005 Device 007: ID 045e:028e Microsoft Corp. Xbox360 Controller

$ ls -l /dev/input/js*
crw-rw-r--+ 1 root input 13, 0 apr 10 17:17 /dev/input/js0

and added my user to input group:

$ groups
mark adm dialout cdrom sudo dip video plugdev input render lpadmin lxd sambashare

I checked it worked fine using evtest-qt or even with cat /dev/input/js0. But the games didn't find any suitable controller.

Hence, after reading through tutorials and threads I found I need to install xboxdrv in order to expose a compatible device to applications.

I added this udev rules in order to get the USB access as regular user:

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="045e",   ATTRS{idProduct}=="028e", OWNER="root", GROUP="plugdev", TAG+="uaccess"

and some games finally listed the controller, but without any movements or trigger. Coming back to the beginning, now cat or evtest-qt do the same: the event file is there but no more inputs from the device.

I tried to remove the udev rule and purge the xboxdrv package, but still no more input.

What was my mistake? How could I recover the situation?

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