RetroPie controller set up issue

drmyth

I have tried setting up the usb xbox controller on my retropi 3 and it will not let me exit games and after several attempts of remapping it still wont work as well as the mapping keeps on skipping buttons when trying to map it

mitu

You already have a topic opened with your problem (https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/18947/controller-issue), why are you opening a new one ?

drmyth

because the issue I am experiencing now is different controller issue since it is only happening in games unlike before where it was with the system as a hole

drmyth

and with the mapping too but the other post solution is not fixing it

mitu

You still need to provide more details as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first. What happens when you map the controller - you're saying it doesn't work, but how exactly ?

drmyth

on the pi 3 b when I map the usb xbox controller it keeps on skipping buttons and when I load up a game nothing happens with the controller and I can not leave the game without resetting the system I have tried remapping it several times

mitu

What is the exact controller model ? Looks like a mis-behaving controller, maybe acting as a keyboard (?).

drmyth

the xbox 360 for windows controller and it was working earlier after the first fresh install it started to act up after I flashed the card and did a fresh install and updated to 4.4.2 while following the first post's information

mitu

@drmyth Try re-installing the xpad driver and resetting your controller configuration, then re-map the input controller.

drmyth

@mitu thank you your advice has fixed the issue

Ranma

Can definitely confirm there's a problem with controller setup. Decided yesterday to start afresh with a new image (4.4.2), with a view to buying the newer B+ model soon. Went OK other than the controller settings. I have a Logitech F710 and it would not set up properly. Couldn't set the triggers (specifically the right trigger was an issue) and kept skipping thumb R2/3 buttons. Also for some reason though start and select appeared to be set, they didn't work in game and I had to find a way to exit whichever game I'd launched and reconfigure the pad. But of course this was hit and miss.

I even tried copying over my current in-use config from my 4.3 install, but that just sent things crazy.

mitu

@ranma The problem in this topic is specific to the xpad driver, which powers the Xbox 360/One controllers, it's not a general one.
Basically, after an update of kernel, the xpad RetroPie driver was not installed and overwritten by the default one, which is sometimes incomplete depending on the model. This has been reported after the 4.4 was released, but was fixed some time ago https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/commit/f6e5a6d70512fc796a4fb535ddf1b44ea985db47.

Ranma

@mitu said in RetroPie controller set up issue:

@ranma The problem in this topic is specific to the xpad driver, which powers the Xbox 360/One controllers, it's not a general one.
Basically, after an update of kernel, the xpad RetroPie driver was not installed and overwritten by the default one, which is sometimes incomplete depending on the model. This has been reported after the 4.4 was released, but was fixed some time ago https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/commit/f6e5a6d70512fc796a4fb535ddf1b44ea985db47.

Oh I see. I assumed as the Logitech F710 switch had to be set to X input rather than D that this issue was effectively the same as mine. I'll start a new thread when I decide to have another attempt and if the problem resurfaces. Many thanks. :-)