can't use a game controller on my Ubuntu system

[il debole]

I can't use game controllers on my Ubuntu system. every button didn't do anything. When I played this game on Windows 10 I was able to use a quasi Xbox 360 controller called F310.

I tried using Logitech F310 and PS5 DualSense in vain.

[Neolog23]

oh 0_0 I'm very sorry to hear that
as far as I know, controllers "should" work properly - I've tested personally on my Ubuntu with ps3 dualshock and xbox 360 controllers - worked fine 😞 I'm really sorry about your problems

Tbh I'm not even sure how to approach... I'll ask friends with Ubuntu to test it out - if we manage to reproduce on at least a single machine - maybe I'll be able to fix (or at least understand what goes wrong)

Worth mentioning that I'm using this plugin to handle all the input
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/rewired-21676
and it's said to handle Ubuntu pretty well 🤔 It's pretty common in Unity games, I wonder if you've ever experienced similar difficulties in any other games?

[il debole]

I'm glad to hear that the plugin does support Linux, my Ubuntu system is actually a little bit different from an average Ubuntu system. I use Sway 1.6-92ba2290 and a few other bleeding edge builds including Wayland and wlroots instead of the official Ubuntu packages.
// All these software are for fine experience when using Sway, Full List = { wayland, seatd, wlroots, sway, dunst, kitty }

In Relic Hunters Zero: Remix, the game didn't respond to any input from controllers as well.
In Darkest Dungeon, the game worked well with F310 but not with DualSense.
And unfortunately I couldn't check if these games work fine on Windows 10 since either the mainboard or PSU for my windows 10 system is broken at the moment.

[dpanter]

My F710 works great in Debian, it's the same controller really but wireless. It usually works straight up with Unity games, very rarely any issues.
These gamepads have a switch to toggle dinput/xinput mode, try dinput if xinput isn't cooperating.

If nothing else you can work around the issue with AntiMicroX and bind keyboard keys to gamepad buttons.

[il debole]

Well, I did try dinput mode in vain.

By the way, I tested Darkest Dungeon, MannaRites and Relic Hunters Zero: Remix again today and found out that Darkest Dungeon now does support DualSense. It's either they somehow responded to my ticket or this Steam update: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/3019080835937157669

[dpanter]

I suspect Wayland might be the cause for the F310 issues, and you'll need a fresh kernel for the PS5 controller, 5.12 at least.

[il debole]

I've been suspecting that too and tried testing all in an i3 window manager just now and noticed nothing improved.

It seems I'm using 5.11.0-18-generic #19-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 7 14:22:03 UTC 2021 x86_64 and I'm gonna do another test again when I see a linux kernel version 5.12+ in an official Ubuntu repository.

[il debole]

Just did another round of tests on Sway without running Xwayland and nothing new happened.

[Neolog23]

this is so above my level of Linux proficiency 😞