I posted this on the Linux mint forums a while ago, but no traffic on the post and it’s driving me crazy.
Problem: I can connect the controllers just fine via Bluetooth, but yuzu and dolphin don’t recognize them unless I’ve deleted them from blueman and freshly re-paired them. More details abd system info in the forum post, but this is the gist. Does anybody have any insight? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
My input isn’t going to be very useful but as a point of data, I’ve never had trouble with my 8bitdo controllers and Linux.
Sometimes they don’t pair right away on the Switch, but Linux has been fine.
Now I’m trying to remember which controller I used to test Yuzu…
Weird as it is, I’ve heard launching games through Steam Big Picture mode with the controller connected can help but that might just be more a key mapping thing than anything else.
When I was doing some research on this, I saw most guides suggest installing various xbox controller driver shims. I can easily imagine the steam controller mapping fulfilling the same role.
But yeah. I have an ultimate whatever the hell (the xbox-like with hall effect sticks) that I connect with the dongle and no issues in Ubuntu. Never tried to pair with my linux PC using bluetooth. Only issue I have is that getting the various 8bitdo software suites running in wine is a bit of a headache but there is a phone app that works more than well enough.
A phone app?! Why didn’t I think to look for that. I’ll give that a look as well. Man I’m glad this community is full of troubleshooters.