PS5 Controller Not Working - Linux Mint
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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
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I responded to that. I opened the overlay and it says controller.
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Disregard I figured out how to use checksum. The ISO is fine the hashes match
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If it's detecting your input as a mouse and keyboard, which you confirmed, then it's configured wrong. Try different profiles until one works, but that's your issue.
What you've confirmed is that the controller is connected, Steam picks up, steam-input is working properly, and input is detected. That means this is a configuration problem, and nothing wrong with your machine.
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I've tried every gamepad template and none work. The only one that registered any sort of input was the Keyboard and WASD Mouse profile, but obviously it was useless.
Honestly I'm this fucking close to just reinstalling mint. I had no problems at all on my first install, but this install has been a nightmare.
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Yeah, but that's what I'm saying. Mint is not the problem here. It's behaving as it should be unless you've installed a conflicting module of some sort.
Have a look at this thread perhaps: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/7791
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Thanks for the link. I did have hid_playstation loaded, so I removed it. It didn't fix anything.
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The plot thickens. Just tried a wired Xbox controller and same exact deal. So no controller works.
Honestly I might just switch back to windows. This is infuriating
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You may need to install steam-devices to get controller support to work.
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Hi there, having two dualsense and one ps4 controller, using them for ages on Linux and they mostly run great, but your issues doesn’t sound completely new either.
It’s very important on how you installed Steam and whether it's native package or Flatpak. For Flatpak you might need special udev rules to allow the controller inside sandbox, usually can be installed using steam-devices package.
As others said, enable Playstation Controller support in Steam's controller settings page.
Check if Steam overlay is functioning. In-game, press Shift+Tab and you should see the overlay and then you should be able to get to controller settings. Try out both with Steam Input enabled and disabled - by default I guess it depends on the game, but mostly enabling it will make it work for games that have issues picking up ds natively.
Test your controllers using something like jstest-gtk. Perhaps there is something else connected that acts as player 1 controller.
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I figured out the issue. Really weird. Steam compatibility mode was disabled so enabling it made my controller work. No idea why. Thanks for the reply though!
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Pretty much because for some reason it’s broken mess in native games with SDL, and works nicely when using Proton, I noticed that too.
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Yeah, it's a bit counter intuitive and I had the same issue on Windows a couple years ago.
As I understood it, if games on PC don't have native PS5 Controller Support, steam needs to jump in to emulate it. That's why it needs to he activated.
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That makes sense. It was so annoying figuring it out