Am I crazy or does my xbox controller finally have a deadzone?

I saw a lot of responses about wine, but I couldn't figure out if anyone was actually running it on SteamOS. When I tried to install it in Alchemist from the Debian Wheezy repositories, it was problematic. By that I mean, I couldn't install it without upgrading a bunch of packages from the Alchemist repositories to the Debian versions from the Wheezy repositories.

You may already know this, but the SteamOS repos, Brewmaster included, do not contain all the packages that are available to standard Debian users. You have to deal with *apt pinning* to get access to the Debian repos, and you need to be very careful about contaminating your SteamOS installation.

In other words, don't use wine in SteamOS. It's hard enough just getting non-steam applications to launch from within Steam. Kodi (xbmc) works nicely, and so does MAME (arcade emulator), but a lot of other graphical applications fail pretty hard. I love wine, but it's not a good fit for Steam.

I'm getting an error, "Transport endpoint not connected", whenever SteamOS tries to mount my external ntfs usb hard drive. It mounts, but my terminal outputs that error when I try to list the contents of the drive. I have to manually unmount and remount every time I reboot my computer or unplug the drive. I'm pretty sure this only happens when ntfs-3g is installed (to write to ntfs drives) but I haven't uninstalled ntfs-3g to test it. I found a bug report [here][1]. It looks like there's a patch for usbmou

I can't remember what was wrong, so I just ended up doing a clean install of SteamOS

I did this the other day too for unrelated reasons and I'm still getting the error. I only mention this for my specific problem so that other people don't waste time reinstalling the OS. Thanks for the replies.

I have a couple DualShock 2 controllers connected to a usb dongle and they're detected by SteamOS. I can map the buttons in controller settings, and rename the controllers from "Twin USB Joystick" to "DualShock 2". But upon reboot or logging out, SteamOS loses my configuration. The controllers are once again listed as "Twin USB Joystick", and the button mappings are empty. Has anyone else experienced this?

I'm still using alchemist and the latest beta client. SteamOS has never been able to save my control