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xone causes issues with older Xbox and Xbox 360 gamepads
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The xone driver prevents users from using older Xbox (original) and Xbox 360 gamepads. These devices will not be properly recognized in applications, which makes for a pretty crummy user experience.

Full disclosure: I haven't experienced any of these issues myself as I don't have any older Xbox hardware, but have heard reports of issues from folks on the xpadneo Discord.

The usual solution - and what's recommended by the folks on the xpadneo Discord - is to install xpad-noone alongside xone. @ReillyBrogan and I had a brief discussion of how best to do this on T8641. We figure it's probably best to bundle xpad-noone with xone in the xone install. Unfortunately, xpad-noone doesn't have any git tags, nor does it have any release tarballs on Github. This makes it rather difficult to package alongside xone.

Source links:
xone: https://github.com/medusalix/xone
xpad-noone: https://github.com/medusalix/xpad-noone

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R5643 xone
D13936R5643:36f4141ef0aa Add xpad-noone to fix issues with older controllers

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T8641: xpadneo

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infinitymdm created this task.Dec 1 2022, 7:08 PM
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infinitymdm added a comment.Dec 2 2022, 12:36 AM

The main reason I opened this task is that I'm not really sure how best to proceed here. I could have the xone build script check out a particular commit of xpad-noone, and install that alongside xone. That's probably the best idea I've had so far. Seeking advice.

ReillyBrogan added a comment.Dec 3 2022, 8:55 PM

It looks like the xpad driver has seen a bunch of changes since last they updated xpad-noone, did you happen to see if they had any intention of re-basing xpad-noone on top of the current upstream?

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.1-XPad

infinitymdm added a comment.Dec 3 2022, 9:06 PM

Unfortunately, the maintainer of xone and xpad-noone hasn't been heard from in some time. I don't believe there was any plans to update xpad-noone.

infinitymdm added a comment.Jan 4 2023, 9:22 PM

Just wanted to follow up on this, as I'm still not sure what the best path forward is. Do we want to add xpad-noone to xone (despite the fact that xpad-noone is _way_ out of date with the upstream xpad driver), or do we want to wait for xpad-noone to be updated?

kaktuspalme added a subscriber: kaktuspalme.Jan 5 2023, 1:13 PM

If you look in the xpad-noone repo it was updated last week.

infinitymdm added a comment.Jan 6 2023, 5:34 AM
In T10447#199908, @kaktuspalme wrote:

If you look in the xpad-noone repo it was updated last week.

That's very good to hear. I took a look this afternoon, and it does indeed appear that he's brought it up to speed with upstream.

I'm moving this weekend, but next week I'll be able to look at adding xpad-noone to xone. If I get it working I'll submit a diff that resolves this task.

infinitymdm added a comment.Jan 12 2023, 4:15 AM

Unfortunately we still have the problem that xpad-noone has no tags or releases. Is there a standard way to handle this?

infinitymdm added a revision: D13936: Add xpad-noone to fix issues with older controllers.Jan 13 2023, 1:15 AM
Staudey closed this task as Resolved by committing R5643:36f4141ef0aa: Add xpad-noone to fix issues with older controllers.Jan 13 2023, 10:08 PM
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