Retropie on Linux Mint 22 is flawed---controller becomes unresponsive

stevethefish76

I don't know who needs to see this or if anything can be resolved from this, I've done three fresh installs of Retropie on Linux Mint Mate 22 and each time the controller input is screwed up. I am using a Logitech F310 USB gamepad, which is pretty standard.

When accessing the in-game menu by pressing the hot key (to take a screenshot, save state, etc), the joypad locks up. I have to press select for it to work again. When returning to the game, the joypad is again locked up and I cannot play the game. I must press select again to regain control.
When accessing Retropie-Setup from within the RetroPie GUI, joypad input ceases to work. Not even the arrow keys can be used. I already reported this bug in a previous thread here.

For this third time, I did not copy over any config files and I did the controller setup for my joypad from scratch. I thought perhaps that there might have been a problem by just copying the entirety of the ./opt/retropie folder and all of its subfolders, but this is not the case. I did a full uninstall, then a reinstall. The problem remains.

I am wondering if it is a problem with Mint 22 itself. I had zero problems installing and using RetroPie on Mint 19 and 20. However, with Mint 22 I've noticed that at least with Space Invaders Extreme on Steam, the game does not recognize my controller at all, regardless of which version of the Linux Proton compatibility tool I am using.

I will post this on the Mint forums as well.

mitu

@stevethefish76 said in Retropie on Linux Mint 22 is flawed---controller becomes unresponsive:

When accessing Retropie-Setup from within the RetroPie GUI, joypad input ceases to work. Not even the arrow keys can be used. I already reported this bug in a previous thread here.

This is a known bug, but without a solution currently. The other issues don't seem RetroPie related (Steam and/or Proton are not part of RetroPie) and haven't been reported so far. For the 1. issue - make sure you're not running anything that can remap the input, like Steam, in the background.

stevethefish76

@mitu said in Retropie on Linux Mint 22 is flawed---controller becomes unresponsive:

For the 1. issue - make sure you're not running anything that can remap the input, like Steam, in the background.

I just mentioned the Steam issue in case there might be a larger issue with USB inputs in Mint22 as it could be related. I was not running Steam in the background when I had Retropie running. I made sure to get into Setup and uninstall Retropie, then reinstall it. I did not copy over any of my configs (not even BIOS files) and remapped my F310 controller from scratch to make sure that there was no confusion on Retropie's part. I wanted to eliminate any possible complications.

stevethefish76

@mitu I ran an update last night and the issue of the in-game menu causing the controller to become unresponsive until the select button is pressed has been fixed. I can now pull up the menu, take screenshots, save states, and return to the game without any problems.

The issue with running the setup from within the RetroPie OS still remains. The workaround is to sudo ./retropie_setup.sh from the terminal.