Can't get controller to work in emulators (menu is working fine)?

landi123

Hi there, I hope someone can help, because I am out of ideas.

I’m trying to install Batocera on a Toshiba Satellite P200-16J (Intel Core Duo T2350, Intel GMA 950).

Latest version which starts without problems is 5.26 (also tried all versions down to 5.18 but all with the same problem)

Everythings is working, controllers getting detected and are working in the menu. But no matter what I tried in Emulators I can only play with the default keyboard settings (even if I change the keyboard settings)
At first I thought my Touchpad being detected as gamepad #0 would make problems, but it seems the xserver isn’t running at all as “xinput” returns “Unable to connect to X server”. Should it be like this?

The other suspect thing is like said my touchpad, being detected as device #0 and xbox pad as device #1 (es_log)
2022-07-02 13:49:11 INFO Added unconfigured joystick SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad (GUID: 110000000200000007000000b1920000, instance ID: 2, device index: 0).

2022-07-02 13:49:11 INFO Added known joystick Microsoft X-Box 360 pad (instance ID: 3, device index: 1)

While eslaunchstderr detects it as #0:
[INFO] [udev]: Plugged pad: Microsoft X-Box 360 pad (1118:654) on port #0.

[INFO] [udev]: Pad #0 (/dev/input/event6) supports force feedback.

[INFO] [udev]: Pad #0 (/dev/input/event6) supports 16 force feedback effects.

[INFO] [Joypad]: Found joypad driver: "udev".

In Xorg.0.log I get:

[ 10.843] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Microsoft X-Box 360 pad (/dev /input/event6)

[ 10.843] (**) Microsoft X-Box 360 pad: Ignoring device from InputClass "cont roller"

[ 10.844] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Microsoft X-Box 360 pad (/dev /input/js0)

[ 10.844] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.

[ 10.844] (II) This device may have been added with another device file.

and when pressing ctrl-alt-F3 I see some errors, but don’t know how to acces the log file:

Obt-Message: Failed to open Input Method

Openbox-Message: X Server does not support locale.

Openbox-Message: Cannot set locale modifiers for the X server.

ERROR CECInput::mAdapter -> DetectAdapters failed

Above are also some messages about “high keycode” from Xkeyboard.

I am currently back to a fresh image of 5.26 and all I did was configure the xbox controller and set it to player 1. Then I started the included SNES donkey kong and as always the controller doesn’t work only default keyboard controls. The game itself works fine.

Would be really happy for some hints and ideas on this problem. For more information/logs, just ask.
Thx in advance.

Atari

Might be better served formally reporting this regression: https://wiki.batocera.org/report_issue

Is your controller highlighting the controller icon in the top corner of the default theme? Does your controller appear if you go into CONTROLLER SETTINGS -> P1’s CONTROLLER?

landi123

Atari Is your controller highlighting the controller icon in the top corner of the default theme? Does your controller appear if you go into CONTROLLER SETTINGS -> P1’s CONTROLLER?

Yes and yes. I also have the problem with other controllers. All working without a problem, when installing Batocera on a Raspberry Pi 4 or another PC (64bit).

At this point I will most likely just get another device for my project. Would be nice to recycle the old notebook for it, but atm it seems to be an endless time sink to get it working. My last idea is to disassemble it and remove all the unneeded hardware like touchpad, camera and so on.

Atari

Well, you don’t have to physically disconnect them to test out disabling them. You could simply use udev rules for it. Something like ATTR{name}=="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" isPad=0 or whatever you might need to do. https://wiki.batocera.org/udev_rules