Controller setup not persisting into emulators.

[mitu]

@Mr-Lumbergh No, the order in the file shouldn't matter. Can you post the contents of your .cfg file ?

[Mr. Lumbergh]

@mitu Please see below. Note that I still have the vendor and prod ID callouts in the config file.

input_device = "DragonRise Inc. Generic USB Joystick"
input_vendor_id=121
input_product_id=6
input_driver = "udev"
input_left_axis = "-0"
input_state_slot_decrease_axis = "-0"
input_right_axis = "+0"
input_state_slot_increase_axis = "+0"
input_r_btn = "6"
input_save_state_btn = "6"
input_down_axis = "+1"
input_l_btn = "4"
input_l_btn_label = "LB"
input_load_state_btn = "4"
input_y_btn = "0"
input_y_btn_label = "Y"
input_x_btn = "1"
input_menu_toggle_btn = "1"
input_b_btn = "2"
input_reset_btn = "2"
input_a_btn = "3"
input_up_axis = "-1"
input_select_btn = "8"
input_select_btn_label = "Back"
input_start_btn = "9"
input_start_btn_label = "Start"
input_exit_emulator_btn = "9"
input_enable_hotkey_btn = "8"
input_l2_btn = "5"
input_r2_btn = "7"
input_r2_btn_label = "RT"

[mitu]

The .cfg seems fine. Maybe adding a " around the values is better ?

...
input_vendor_id="121"
input_product_id="6"
...

Can you run cat /proc/bus/input/devices and post the output ?

[sleve_mcdichael]

@mitu @Mr-Lumbergh and is the spaces around = also important, I think?

input_vendor_id = 121

Vs.

input_vendor_id=121

[Mr. Lumbergh]

@sleve_mcdichael @mitu
I'm not sure if it was the spaces or the quotes I forgot to include, but after taking both of your suggestions on the config file edits I'm in business.

Thank you both.

Mitu, I didn't post the results of cat on the input devices but I can if you're still interested, otherwise I'll go ahead and tag this as solved.

[mitu]

@Mr-Lumbergh said in Controller setup not persisting into emulators.:

Mitu, I didn't post the results of cat on the input devices but I can if you're still interested, otherwise I'll go ahead and tag this as solved.

No, it's not necessary - if it worked it means the vendor/produc IDs were correct, this is what the command would have shown in detail.

[Mr. Lumbergh]

@mitu Thanks again for your time.

[Neo-Rio]

@mitu Any idea when this issue is going to get perma-fixed?
I gather it's some issue with SDL2...

[mitu]

@Neo-Rio said in Controller setup not persisting into emulators.:

@mitu Any idea when this issue is going to get perma-fixed?

Should be fixed by https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/3702, though you'll need ES-dev installed (for now, until the corresponding ES changes trickle down to the stable branch).

[mitu]

.. and now the needed EmulationStation changes are available in the stable ES branch. Thanks @BuZz !