DS4 controller not working in either lutris or steam

jerol · n00b Joined: 12 Feb 2022 Posts: 64

I'm on void, just tried to adding myself to the input group, but it made no difference. Tried GE-Proton-20, GE-Proton-25, Wine-GE.

Usually it gets picked up on steam atleast, I also enabled the ps4 controller support on steam but it still didn't pick it up, tried big picture mode etc.

Lsusb picks it up: Sony Corp. DualShock 4 [CUH-ZCT2x]

dmesg | grep Controller = https://bpa.st/LBBA

Any help highly appreciated!

Side note: In pavucontrol it shows up as both and input and an output audio device :S

Edit: The correct module is being loaded, and I can use the touchpad still.

Ralphred · l33t Joined: 31 Dec 2013 Posts: 725

With steam not running, what is the output of ls -l /dev/input/js*?

EDIT: I have the same model, and it works fine over both USB and BT.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2025 4:29 pm Post subject:

jerol,

Does your kernel have

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2025 4:29 pm Post subject:

Moved from Gamers & Players to Unsupported Software as its a Void Linux question
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jerol · n00b Joined: 12 Feb 2022 Posts: 64

Yeah it's weird because I too got it working on gentoo without any hassle after I loaded the module :S And I think I have used a controller on void before too without hassling with it.

CONFIG_HID_SONY is built as a it seems module.

grep CONFIG_HID_SONY /usr/src/kernel-headers-6.6.77_1/.config:

Ionen · Developer Joined: 06 Dec 2018 Posts: 2896

You might need games-util/game-device-udev-rules if not already, has some DS4-specific rules.

Edit:
wrt lutris, since wine-9.2 or so I forget, wine changed the default for DS4 to use hidraw directly rather than sdl2, which requires the above (and even then it may be flaky, I feel old default was better)

Not that I can really confirm anything, my old DS4 died few years ago and been using a xone controller which been giving me less trouble than the DS4 did back then.

jerol · n00b Joined: 12 Feb 2022 Posts: 64

Only package that could be I guess relevant that I found in the official repos is steam-udev-rules, and I have it already installed.

Searching for it in the void-packages or void-src whatever doesn't seem to return anything that significant either. grepped for both game and udev.

Edit:
And that's the weird thing, I've never really had trouble with my ds4 controller before. Yeah on gentoo I remember looking for the module, but aside that it has 95% of the time worked depending on the game.

I think it's down to udev rules, consulted chatgpt and made a file in: /etc/udev/rules.d/50-ds4.rules