Gamepad Detected but not accepting any buttons held (keyboard works)

[mitu]

@bipolarexpress When you open the RetroPie setup script from Emulationstation, the version is shown at the top of the screen

[bipolarexpress]

@mitu Version: 4.4

[bipolarexpress]

@mitu and if I bring up the main menu it says EMULATIONSTATION V2.7.5RP

[mitu]

@bipolarexpress Ok, so your gamepad does not get paired via BT, then it's a BT problem with the communication between the macbook and the 8bit controller, until you resolve this, there's nothing that Emulationstation can detect and configure.

[bipolarexpress]

@mitu why would the bluetooth effect a usb connection? and that should mean it would still work with a different usb controller without bluetooth, but it doesn't.
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[mitu]

@bipolarexpress Sorry, I was under the impression that you're trying using BT. Does jstest detect your buttons/d-pad (see https://retropie.org.uk/docs/RetroArch-Configuration/#determining-button-values) ?

[bipolarexpress]

@mitu all good yeah it does either usb or BT I use it as usb though. and just tested it yes it does it registers everything

[bipolarexpress]

So if evtest and jstest register why would retropie not? :s makes no sense to me

[bipolarexpress]

Okay so I did some more tests and I've narrowed it down slightly. The problem seems to only occur when running it on the SD card as I decided to test it on the hardrive, and also with a graphical install. I'm thinking it's a Mac problem I don't know why it would make a difference which drive I use especially as evtest still reads it but next I'm going to try it with a different laptop from the SD port if that works I'll know for sure it's the Mac and I guess I'll just have to use a harddrive.

[mitu]

@bipolarexpress I would try with a more recent Ubuntu distro. Even if the install page lists 16.04 as a requirement, it would work with 17.10 - maybe some bugs related to the platform have been fixed on the linux side.

[bipolarexpress]

@mitu okay, cool I'll give that a shot. Cheers.