Steelseries Stratus XL

[BugDroid]

Hi

I am trying to get the controller working with Retropie on a Raspi4
Everything works, except the "select" button, and the button between the 2 knobs (marked with a "o")

Is there a fix for that

thx a lot

[preslmayer]

Hello
I have the same issue with SteelSeries Stratus XL

evtest shows me

/dev/input/event3:	SteelSeries Stratus XL Keyboard
/dev/input/event4:	SteelSeries Stratus XL Mouse
/dev/input/event5:	SteelSeries Stratus XL
/dev/input/event6:	SteelSeries Stratus XL

KEY_BACK and KEY_HOMEPAGE available in
dev/input/event3: SteelSeries Stratus XL Keyboard

All other buttons are available in
/dev/input/event5: SteelSeries Stratus XL

Is there a fix for that?

[mitu]

No, there is not fix since the gamepad has it's own (Windows) drivers and it's reporting the Select/Guide buttons as keyboard keys.
You may try to re-map the keys to buttons with xboxdrv, similar to how it's explained here. xboxdrv is installable from RetroPie-Setup's drivers section and can be configured to remap your gampad - see https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Universal-Controller-Calibration-%26-Mapping-Using-xboxdrv/.

Or you could get a compatible gamepad which doesn't need proprietary drivers to function.

[preslmayer]

I did some analysis between kernel versions ...

Linux <hostname> 4.15.0-213-generic #224-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jun 19 13:30:12 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

and

Linux <hostname> 5.4.0-167-generic #184-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 31 09:21:49 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

In kernel version 5.4.0 evtest shows 4 events

/dev/input/event0:	SteelSeries Stratus XL Keyboard
/dev/input/event1:	SteelSeries Stratus XL Mouse
/dev/input/event2:	SteelSeries Stratus XL
/dev/input/event3:	SteelSeries Stratus XL

in kernel version 4.15.0 evtest shows only 1 event!

/dev/input/event0:	SteelSeries Stratus XL

Theres is a difference in source of hid-generic.c.

I made my own kernel module hid-stratusxl.c
After compiling it and loading it, only one event device will be shown in retropie.

All buttons can be setup in emulationstation successfully!

Input device ID: bus 0x5 vendor 0x111 product 0x1419 version 0x109
Input device name: "SteelSeries Stratus XL"
Supported events:
  Event type 0 (EV_SYN)
  Event type 1 (EV_KEY)
    Event code 139 (KEY_MENU)
    Event code 158 (KEY_BACK)
    Event code 172 (KEY_HOMEPAGE)
    Event code 272 (BTN_LEFT)
    Event code 273 (BTN_RIGHT)
    Event code 274 (BTN_MIDDLE)
    Event code 275 (BTN_SIDE)
    Event code 276 (BTN_EXTRA)
    Event code 304 (BTN_SOUTH)
    Event code 305 (BTN_EAST)
    Event code 306 (BTN_C)
    Event code 307 (BTN_NORTH)
    Event code 308 (BTN_WEST)
    Event code 309 (BTN_Z)
    Event code 310 (BTN_TL)
    Event code 311 (BTN_TR)
    Event code 312 (BTN_TL2)
    Event code 313 (BTN_TR2)
    Event code 314 (BTN_SELECT)
    Event code 315 (BTN_START)
    Event code 316 (BTN_MODE)
    Event code 317 (BTN_THUMBL)
    Event code 318 (BTN_THUMBR)
    Event code 319 (?)
  Event type 2 (EV_REL)
    Event code 0 (REL_X)
    Event code 1 (REL_Y)
    Event code 8 (REL_WHEEL)
    Event code 11 (?)
  Event type 3 (EV_ABS)
    Event code 0 (ABS_X)
      Value      0
      Min    -2047
      Max     2047
      Flat     255
    Event code 1 (ABS_Y)
      Value      0
      Min    -2047
      Max     2047
      Flat     255
    Event code 2 (ABS_Z)
      Value      0
      Min    -2047
      Max     2047
      Fuzz      15
      Flat     255
    Event code 5 (ABS_RZ)
      Value      0
      Min    -2047
      Max     2047
      Fuzz      15
      Flat     255
      Resolution     745
    Event code 9 (ABS_GAS)
      Value      0
      Min        0
      Max     4095
      Fuzz      15
      Flat     255
    Event code 10 (ABS_BRAKE)
      Value      0
      Min        0
      Max     4095
      Fuzz      15
      Flat     255
    Event code 16 (ABS_HAT0X)
      Value      0
      Min       -1
      Max        1
    Event code 17 (ABS_HAT0Y)
      Value      0
      Min       -1
      Max        1
    Event code 40 (ABS_MISC)
      Value      0
      Min        0
      Max      255
  Event type 4 (EV_MSC)
    Event code 4 (MSC_SCAN)
  Event type 17 (EV_LED)
    Event code 0 (LED_NUML) state 0
    Event code 1 (LED_CAPSL) state 0
    Event code 2 (LED_SCROLLL) state 0
    Event code 3 (LED_COMPOSE) state 0
Properties:
Testing ... (interrupt to exit)