PS5 Controller Not Working - Linux Mint
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Did you try to pair it with bt just to see if that works? Thats all I got. Hope someone comes along with some other options.
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I just did. Same issue. Connected just fine, steam recognizes it, the second I launch a game all the controls stop immediately. Tried two different PS5 controllers.
You know, for linux mint spouting that they are useful right out of the box, I sure have had to spend a ton of time configuring things that didn't work.
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Shit down Steam and see if Mint itself recognizes the controller as an input device. This is possibly a steam-input issue with an discrepancy in a library version. Alternatively, try Mint LiveUSB to see if it works there, if so, you have a library or config problem in your install.
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Mint does recognize the controller (checked using lsusb). I've shut down and restarted steam and still no luck. I've done everything I could think of. No one has ever seen this issue, apparently. I'm absolutely stumped.
Just logged back into windows to test games and it worked flawlessly.
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Then you have a problem with steam, not Mint.
- Check the steam settings for controller input
- Try a few different games
- Try try Big Picture mode
- make sure you don't have any other controller tools running
- Open Steam via terminal and watch the logs to see if anything obvious shows up there
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It would make sense that the setting to enable PS input was not enabled. I have had this issue before after a fresh install as i had forgotten to enable the input. I remember being very pissed about it then feeling dumb. I hope that's it cause its a simple fix.
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I tried 3 games and none of them worked. Big picture mode the controller worked in the menus but when a game launched then nothing. I don't have any other controller tools. I could try Steam from the terminal didn't think of that.
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The PS controller has been enabled in the settings since I've been testing. Regardless it doesn't work. When steam is open the right stick moves the mouse. The controller acts like a keyboard and mouse if steam is open, then stops altogether when a game is launched.
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So you went to the game, clicked on the gamepad icon on the bottom right of the game banner and selected enable steam input? Then selected a controller layout? I think its a little strange steam makes you do this per game as well as its general desktop setting.
Also did you try from a live usb environment? That was good advice as it could be something you/mimt installed after setup. Also you did do a checksum of your ISO before you burnt your install medium?
And there is no strange errors when starting steam from a terminal and running your game?
And you tried the steam beta?
If you have done all that might consider filing a bug report on steam.
Sometimes its worth waiting a few days for an update, might sort itself out.
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Go into preferences>controller>turn rumble and steam input off
Try again after that.
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I've had this exact same issue with a Nintendo Switch Pro Controller; IIRC, my fix was disabling Steam input.
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This was the solution for me as well
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I had the same issue with my PS5 controller. For me the fix was to go to steam settings -> controller -> "playstation controller support" set to enabled (the default was "enabled in games w/o support). For some reason I had to change that option to make it recognize input in games.
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For me connecting it to a Windows machine and updating the controller firmware made it works. Apparently you could do that using Bottles (wine) directly on your Linux distro.
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Then you have the wrong controller profile selected
Open the game overlay and change the controller to be a gamepad and not keyboard/mouse emulated.
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I'll give that a try
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See my other comment. You just have the wrong controller profile selected. Controller and Steam are working properly.
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I tried this already. The game is set to use the controller. I opened the overlay to double check, it says controller, I close it and none of the buttons work.
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What do you mean checksum of the iso? The tool I used said the usb was successfully flashed.
How would I go about testing this in USB Live mode?
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Unfortunately this did not work. All of the steam input settings I have turned off
