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    Retroarch Not Seeing Controllers

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    • obsidianspiderO
      obsidianspider
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      I was excited to see that @fun4stuff solved their controller problem by re-updating from binaries. Sadly, it's not a choice on x86. :(

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        popkid
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        had nearly exact same problem yesterday after update from source to my x86 based install (in my case ubuntu based with Xbox One controller) controller working fine in emulation station, but not in emulators (was previously working fine), had a dig around and found something that has sorted it for me

        in /home/username/.config/retroarch/autoconfig folder there was my .cfg for my controller, but it was not inside the /udev folder, copied the .cfg file into udev folder and it is detected/works once more now with the emus

        hope this helps, I registered on forum just to let you know...!

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        • obsidianspiderO
          obsidianspider @popkid
          last edited by obsidianspider

          @popkid Thanks! What's the full path to the /udev folder? I'm looking for it now (sudo find / -name "udev") , but there are a few different folders.

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            popkid @obsidianspider
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            @obsidianspider ah, sorry, it is there at /home/username/.config/retroarch/autoconfig/udev

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              obsidianspider @popkid
              last edited by obsidianspider

              @popkid THAT FIXED IT!

              I didn't have the /udev folder inside ~/.config/retroarch/autoconfig/ at all, just the .cfg file so I added the udev folder, then copied the .cfg file in there and now it works.

              Thank you SO MUCH. I spend HOURS on this yesterday.

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              • obsidianspiderO
                obsidianspider
                last edited by

                What's weird, is that my working Pi 3 install doesn't have that udev folder either. That must be one of the quirks of the x86 variant.

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                  popkid @obsidianspider
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                  @obsidianspider no worries :) weird you didn't have anything at all at that level though, my udev folder was there and full of entries (dozens of them for all sorts of controllers) just not my controller, it was your debug stuff that led me there, so thanks to you too, happy gaming :)

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                    popkid @popkid
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                    @popkid said in Retroarch Not Seeing Controllers:

                    @obsidianspider no worries :) weird you didn't have anything at all at that level though, my udev folder was there and full of entries (dozens of them for all sorts of controllers) just not my controller, it was your debug stuff that led me there, so thanks to you too, happy gaming :)

                    actually, I recall I did an online update in retroarch of the autoconfig databases in my attempts to fix my issue, I guess it created the udev folder and entries in the course of doing that

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                      pawpie
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                      i have this exact problem right now as well

                      i was also missing udev folder from retroarch which i created and then copied the gamepad.cfg files. Unfortunately for it made no difference my control still does not work when launching games it seems to be disabled and only allows the keyboard to be used

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                        obsidianspider @pawpie
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                        @pawpie this is a dumb question, but did your reboot? I don't think it matters with retroarch, but it's worth a try. I rebooted and re-upgraded so many times I don't know when I did what.

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                          pawpie @obsidianspider
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                          @obsidianspider

                          I did restart the system , at first i only copied the gamepad.cfg control but since that did bit work i also copied the other .cfg file ( says play station wireless gamepad.cfg) as well as a .bak file but that also did not make a difference.

                          Restarted the system about 4 times already still same issue

                          I am using retropie on a raspberry pi 3 though not a pc

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                          • obsidianspiderO
                            obsidianspider @pawpie
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                            @pawpie rebuild retroarch from binary via the retroarch_setup.sh menus. That seemed to help the other person who was having trouble.

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                              lawrencejd @obsidianspider
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                              @obsidianspider Hello everyone, I'm using retroarch, everything smooth but when i connect xbox 360 controller its keep blinking even i installed the driver using this command sudo apt-get install xboxdrv

                              can anyone help me out?

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                                mitu Global Moderator @lawrencejd
                                last edited by mitu

                                @lawrencejd Please open a new topic explaining your issue and add the info requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.
                                It's bad forum etiquette to bump years old topics, even if related to your issue.

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