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    Different controller config screens?

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      emptyhead41
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      Hey all. Just set up RetroPie for the first time. Very impressed.

      Me and Linux have a very poor working relationship so I had to try setting up many (many) times and I’m left with some things puzzling me.

      I’m sure at some point in my early attempts, when I used the controller config in emulation station to setup my wired xbox360 controller, it gave descriptions of where the buttons were (eg north, south, east) and the triggers were detected as analog. Now my latest setup of RetroPie, the one that actually works, doesn’t have the button descriptions and the trigger buttons are showing as buttons not axis. Anyone able to help me out with what this might be?

      I’ve been using the same image (4.4) the whole time and I’ve updated main and core files from binary. Im a total Linux noob btw. Despite attempting to get to grips with it many times over the past 15 years or so!!!

      Thanks for any help

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        mitu Global Moderator @emptyhead41
        last edited by mitu

        @emptyhead41 The addition of the north, east, ... to the right controller buttons is a recent change, appearing in Emulationstation 2.8. This version is not the one from a 4.4 image, but if you update all your packages (reaching version 4.4.9), your Emulationstation will be on 2.8 and you'll get the same button legend as before.

        For the analog/trigger issue - that's an xpad driver feature. By default, the shoulder triggers are treated as analog axis for a lot of controllers, but RetroPie configures this driver so that all Xbox controllers get configured as triggers (and not axis).
        If you updated your OS and packages, but did not re-install the xpad driver, the default Linux xpad driver would be used, which configures back the shoulder triggers as axis.
        TL;DR you probably updated at some point your install, experienced the new Emulationstation input UI and also the xpad driver was reset to LInux defaults.

        Update your whole RetroPie installation (starting with the 4.4 base image), re-install the xpad driver afterwards just to be sure (you can find in the drivers package section) and you're all set.

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          emptyhead41
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          @mitu Thank you for such an informative reply! Very much appreciated :)

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