Update to Retropie 3.8 has broken my controls (mk_arcade_joystick_rpi)

[simonster]

Hi,

I have been using RetroPie with mk_arcade_joystick_rpi for controls since Christmas on a Pi2 and updated to Pi3 last month and all seemed to be fine, however I updated from RetroPie-Setup from 3.7 to 3.8 and my Joysticks stopped working.

I thought maybe something had been removed, so I tried to reinstall, and it doesn't install, it throws up errors compiling Linux Headers 4.4.11-v7+-2

To eliminate the update itself, I downloaded the RetroPie 3.8 image and wrote this to another SD card and experience the same issue.

I have reported this as an issue on the github entry for mk_arcade_joystick_rpi but was wondering if anyone has any advice on how to work around this issue? At the moment my RetroPie machine is unusable as the controls are busted.

Thanks

Simonster

[simonster]

For anyone who has the same issue:

I have resolved this issue for myself. I followed the manual install process ( at https://github.com/recalbox/mk_arcade_joystick_rpi ) but instead of step 2 (install linux headers), run:

sudo apt-get install raspberrypi-kernel-headers

This will install a headers package, however because I had been messing around I had to remove the old header files first, if you get a message about "file already in another package linux-headers-4.xxx.xxx" then run

sudo apt-get remove linux-headers-4.xx.xx

then rerun

sudo apt-get install raspberrypi-kernel-headers

once this has completed successfully, carry on with step 3a.