(3.6.19) Joycons and Steam/quick access buttons no longer working

[Drexciyian]

As the title says the only inputs that work are the buttons and d-pad everything else doesn't respond

[velagunder]

Same problem here after updating to 3.6.19. Oddly enough the D-Pad does work in Game Mode, but not ingame. Face buttons seem to work initially during game bootup, but fail after loading a savegame or entering a menu. Games that are aware of the input method show Keyboard bindings instead of the controller buttons. My DualSense controller has no issues at all, only the "integrated" Steam Deck controls.

[Ph.D. Dying Monkey ‘𝟴𝟰]

Great job, very STABLE UPDATE as usualy. Cant use Steam Deck anymore. Plenty of bugs and all buttons and joysticks stopped working. I have to put Deck into drawer again, because it is useless... again. :-( I cannot even shut it down properly, it stucked forever in ending Steam. Brilliant... :-\

[velagunder]

I've done a rollback to 3.5.19, this version works without issues.

[Drexciyian]

I went to the beta channel which seemed to fix it

[Tomkatt]

Originally posted by velagunder:

I've done a rollback to 3.5.19, this version works without issues.

How do you roll back? I'm noting some minor performance issues, lower frame rates in a game I've been playing.

[Ph.D. Dying Monkey ‘𝟴𝟰]

Originally posted by Drexciyian:

I went to the beta channel which seemed to fix it

Thanks, paradoxically it worked. Valve probably going into new meta that their Beta is new Stable and Stable branch is Experimental. :facepalm: I had plenty of glitches in latest Stable update.

EDIT: And this Beta is more stable and slighty faster than previous Stable version (which worked before critical broken update). LoL

EDIT2: I found out that Beta doesnt have newest Mesa driver update, it has still 24.0.5, but all other versions of system components and client have been updated to latest versions. :-)

[velagunder]

Originally posted by Tomkatt:

How do you roll back? I'm noting some minor performance issues, lower frame rates in a game I've been playing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN_-Bn1Elz4

Check out this video. Afterwards you can pin the version in the desktop mode terminal:

sudo rauc status mark-active booted

[Drexciyian]

yeah nice but why no fix for this? does valve even read this forum

[DEngelChill]

Had the LCD 512GB model Steam Deck running on the stable channel v3.6.19
Every time I pressed the "Steam" or "..." button I would no longer see any menu pop up, but would see area at the top of the screen toggle colour from the background to black and back again with each press.

Switching to the Beta channel and updating to OS Version 3.6.20 restored the expected button behaviour.

For those wondering how to even get access to the menu to switch the channel, go up to the Wi-Fi icon and press on that, then you can go to System and System Update Channel from there.

[BigKadoLB]

Originally posted by DEngelChill:

Had the LCD 512GB model Steam Deck running on the stable channel v3.6.19
Every time I pressed the "Steam" or "..." button I would no longer see any menu pop up, but would see area at the top of the screen toggle colour from the background to black and back again with each press.

Switching to the Beta channel and updating to OS Version 3.6.20 restored the expected button behaviour.

For those wondering how to even get access to the menu to switch the channel, go up to the Wi-Fi icon and press on that, then you can go to System and System Update Channel from there.

Mine has been doing the same thing..... man feels like valve don't even read these forums