@ts-x I'm going to that site now. Thank You! Sorry for the delay, personal home things....

Just a heads-up: removing xpad might break the controller in emulationstation and elsewhere. In my case, the triggers weren't being properly parsed, and as such they couldn't be properly mapped. Hence, I wasn't able to simply remove said driver. That being said, the original solution by @tuxophil DOES work properly, and as such I would still recommend it. Keep in mind, though, that the command at step "8" requires a declaration about which controller you want to map. As such, a correct command might be ./controllermap 0 >> ~/my360.txt, if your X360 gamepad is in slot 0. Running just ./controllermap will show which controllers are connected, so use your gamepad's slot from that list.

original Microsoft, me too
i don't use anymore driver xboxdrv because after installation of retropie image, xbox pad works without install it from retropie setup menu, so i think not necessary for me to go in setup menu and install package

It works !!!!!! but only when i launch ES in a terminal :-(

This is exactly what I said in my first reply. This is how it's configured the RetroPie launcher - as outlined in the docs.

Last question : does ES and Retropie need sudoers ?
If not, i should modify authorization in /opt/retropie/configs : actually all files are for root:root and not for my user "pi"
As runcommand try to write in the .cfg file, it couln't !!!

The /opt/retropie/configs shouldn't be owned by root - there's something that you maybe changed, because the RetroPie-Setup scripts ensure the folder is owned and writable by the installation users.

The sudo rights for the install user is needed for installing additional packages and for adding the necessary configurations needed for RetroPie. This is one of the first steps outlined in the installation docs.

Can you add more info about your setup, as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first ?
I assume that by Xbox 360 you mean a controller for Xbox 360 - is it an original controller or a compatible one ? Do you know the make/model ?

@quicksilver

Okay, so a bug.
I would never have thought of it by myself.

Thank you very much.

Is anyone running a Stretch version of Retropie with an Xbox 360 controller?

Can you tell me what your buttons map to, and if the player lights are working?

GT2 fine as far as I can tell on my end. Don't have RE3

@sano This sounds very much like what I'm trying to accomplish! :)
is there a separate hid for sony clones? The controller is still being detected as "ShanWan PS3/PC Wired GamePad"

Just wondering if you ever figured this problem out? I too am having the same problem. It worked fine for a while, then it just stopped working. I'm not sure what changed to cause it.

@Mu0n

There are some annoyances from xboxdrv: it can detect the L2 and R2 triggers as ABS stuff, but jzintv refuses to detect it, since it'd want a button behavior there instead. This severely reduces the amount of maps I can do.

You can convert your controller's analog trigger input to digital by adding:

--trigger-as-button

to your xboxdrv command. It's detailed more thouroughly in the guide here.

I know this is an old topic but I was reading it just before I tried out the xboxdrv from https://github.com/zerojay/xboxdrv/ and I thought I'd just let you know... having built and tested it all you have to do is launch xboxdrv with the --chatpad option and it works perfectly.

I don't use retropie so I don't know where you need to make this change, but that is all that is required. My main annoyance with it is that I can't find a tab key... but it works well, I'm writing this post with it on my laptop.

To add to this I was able to get it connected again. It worked and I tested a couple games. I restarted the Pi and it would not work. If I shut down the pi and turn it back on, then turn the controller back on it connects. If I go to config to setup Joypad order it only shows '4' xbox controllers even though only 1 is connected. I shut down a couple more times like normal and booted up and controller connected. Now I shut down and boot the system back up and controller does not connect. Just blinks. When it does connect it will show player 1.

@frank I made two posts recently related to this issue. Check these threads:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/52026
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/49544

I have two different generic receivers, both of which work fine with RP. No need to spend more money on a genuine microsoft receiver :)