Xbox360 wireless controllers - receiver connectivity issues

[backstander]

@zanie420 if you read down below my post (trixter1981 & raelik posts), there is a workaround that will downgrade the kernel. The xboxdrv seams to work pretty consistently after this downgrade.

[ataritoday]

Hi All,

Apologies, another Newb.....

I tried the script in above...sudo worked, curl worked and it downloaded something...

hard to tell if tr-d worked or not.....

same with chmod , did not seem to do much, but no error either....

when I get to the line /usr/ line I get a syntax error.... is this suppose to be a continuation of the line above ? what does it do ?

Apologies for the basic questions.

Thx
Jim

[mazjohn]

Another Newb when it comes to installing scripts and Linux Kernels, ..cannot get past the first part without errors so far... Attempting this on clean install of V3.81 , over an hour struggling... will keep trying.

I would hope there would be an updated image release soon that officially addresses this??

Update: I gave up. had to start over with a clean install of retropie V 3.6 which uses an older Kernel. Works fine now.... Hopefully there is an update soon that addresses out of box issues with 3.81.

[sberrieman]

Hi,

I'm getting a gzip error when running the final command and it performs the rollback - any ideas?

[NizZ8]

@raelik Thanks for posting, fixed the issue for me with a fresh install of 3.8.1

[herb_fargus]

An issue has been logged here: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/1540

[PhantombrainM]

Thank you. This worked so far.
But one question for the future: how to roll back?
apg-get update and upgrade does not install the newest kernel anymore.
How do I switch back to an upgrading distribution when the problems have been fixed?
regards PhantombrainM

[dabone]

I'm trying to get a fresh install using my dp9 gpio controllers along with my wireless xbox 360 controllers.
I guess I'm outta luck at the moment? I tried a fresh install, then backing down the kernel, but then I can't install the gamecon driver.

Later,
dabone

[Jexoteric]

The script above works well, but it didn't fix the flashing ring of lights that would normally indicate the controller is still trying to connect. Shouldn't the light switch to the corresponding lighted quadrant that the receiver sees the controller as (1-4)?

Is the flashing ring the normal behavior or is something still incorrect?

[backstander]

@Jexoteric

I'm not sure if you already did this step but...you'll still need to setup the Xbox 360 controller in the RetroPie Setup Script. This should setup the correct "corresponding lighted quadrant" to light up.

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Setting-up-the-XBox360-controller

[Jexoteric]

@backstander nailed it. LED's work now, and are much less annoying.

[Arcuza]

I'm having issues with this as well. It seems like random results, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes LEDs are flashing, sometimes they show contoller#, sometimes they die.

Is there a working fix? Will a fix be available in the next version?

I'm running 3.8.1 with raspberry PI 3.

[billymalcolm]

Upon running script, I get

Gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
Tar: child returned status 1
Tar: error is not recoverable: exiting now

Anyone else get this? What have I done wrong?

[archie778]

@raelik I used this code to fix my controllers and it worked perfectly to fix the wireless controllers, however upon reboot, now i have no sound, and my resolution is way off... any idea what went wrong?

[archie778]

actually the controllers only work in the emulationstation menu, once i get into a game in an emulator they do nothing (i've tried re mapping them)

[Maynard]

is this issue fixed with retropie 4.0? i've installed it and xbox360 controller works as it should. the only thing is the annoying flashing ring. i had this problem on other systems when using xpad, so that i allays used xboxdrv instead of xpad. is there a fix so that the lights don't rotating in circle anymore?

has anyone tested the downgrade script with retropie 4.0?

[cpt bananas]

Yeah, real talk, how do I un-downgrade? The workaround described in this thread works great, but I'm curious how I would undo it short of re-formatting with a new image.

@Maynard said in Xbox360 wireless controllers - receiver connectivity issues:

is this issue fixed with retropie 4.0?

Haven't messed with it myself, but the post announcing the 4.0 release includes the information below on the topic. At least with 3.8.1, I found the XPAD driver to be functional but annoying due to the constantly flashing lights. Unsure if this newer XPAD driver resolves this.

NOTE: Some people have been having trouble with the XBox/XBox 360 controller driver xboxdrv on the current Raspbian Kernel. To work around this we now include the latest xpad kernel driver with the image (it is available from the Packages -> Drivers menu for those upgrading). The included xpad has been patched to map the Xbox 360 triggers to buttons, so they work out of the box with Emulation Station, without the need for xboxdrv.

[BuZz]

@cpt-bananas it does

[Riverstorm]

This should be fixed I believe? I loaded a fresh 4.0 image, upgraded to 4.0.1 about a week ago and I have four 360 controllers all working with the proper quadrants lit.

[BuZz]

The updated xpad driver supports the LEDs.