I have an XBox Wireless Controller, model #1914, and am running Ubuntu 24.04. I can get the controller to connect over bluetooth but it doesn’t show up as a joystick in jstest, evtest or steam. It doesn’t show up at all as a usb device in lsusb when plugged in. I’ve tired installing xpadneo but that didn’t seem to do anything. Any ideas?
Have you upgraded the firmware on the controller? I had basically the same problem and I needed to update the firmware.
Thanks! I’ll see if I can find a windows machine and give it a try. I can’t pass it through to the windows VM I keep around, since it doesn’t show up as a USB device at all.
this right here. it’s dumb as fuck, but has resolved 100% of my issues.
good luck getting it updated though, I had to use a windows VM and pass the USB through.
Yup I had to borrow my wife’s work laptop it’s a real pain.
Does the controller work at all? Have you checked it using Xbox or another computer? Does the USB-port work?
The bluetooth connection definitly works:
$ bluetoothctl info F4:6A:D7:9A:42:3A Device F4:6A:D7:9A:42:3A (public) Name: Xbox Wireless Controller Alias: Xbox Wireless Controller Appearance: 0x03c4 (964) Icon: input-gaming Paired: yes Bonded: yes Trusted: yes Blocked: no Connected: yes LegacyPairing: no UUID: Vendor specific (00000001-5f60-4c4f-9c83-a7953298d40d) UUID: Generic Access Profile (00001800-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb) UUID: Generic Attribute Profile (00001801-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb) UUID: Device Information (0000180a-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb) UUID: Battery Service (0000180f-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb) UUID: Human Interface Device (00001812-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb) Modalias: usb:v045Ep0B13d0501 Battery Percentage: 0x64 (100)I don’t have another device to plug the USB port into, but it can at least get power from it.