I'm trying to set up a third party xbox 360 controller I got off of amazon but I'm not having any luck with it. It reports to the OS as an official 360 controller, but neither xpad or xboxdrv seem to be working with it. When it's connected to the computer, the green LEDs blink forever.
I get the following in dmesg when connecting the device:
[84734.680617] usb 1-3: new full-speed USB device number 12 using xhci_hcd
[84735.042706] usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=045e, idProduct=028e, bcdDevice= 1.10
[84735.042708] usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[84735.042710] usb 1-3: Product: Controller
[84735.042711] usb 1-3: Manufacturer: ©Microsoft Corporation
[84735.042712] usb 1-3: SerialNumber: A0BD0B52
[84735.093762] usb 1-3: can't set config #1, error -71
Attempting to manually load xpad by running sudo modprobe xpad does nothing. I'd heard that xpad can be a bit fickle, so I tried using the userspace xboxdrv program but that failed with the following when run as a standard user:
$ xboxdrv --quiet
-- [ ERROR ] ------------------------------------------------------
USBController::USBController(): libusb_open() failed: LIBUSB_ERROR_ACCESS
Running it as root gave the following message, even after xpad as confirmed removed from the kernel:
$ sudo xboxdrv --quiet
-- [ ERROR ] ------------------------------------------------------
Error couldn't claim the USB interface: LIBUSB_ERROR_NOT_FOUND
Try to run 'rmmod xpad' and then xboxdrv again or start xboxdrv with the option --detach-kernel-driver.
While debugging I noticed a couple of strange errors in usb-devices. I'm not entirely sure what to make of this. (Output is abridged)
$ usb-devices
T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=02 Cnt=01 Dev#= 12 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=045e ProdID=028e Rev=01.10
S: Manufacturer=©Microsoft Corporation
S: Product=Controller
S: SerialNumber=A0BD0B52
C: #Ifs= 0 Cfg#= 0 Atr= MxPwr=
cat: '/sys/bus/usb/devices/usb1/1-3/1-*:?.*/bInterfaceNumber': No such file or directory
cat: '/sys/bus/usb/devices/usb1/1-3/1-*:?.*/bAlternateSetting': No such file or directory
cat: '/sys/bus/usb/devices/usb1/1-3/1-*:?.*/bNumEndpoints': No such file or directory
cat: '/sys/bus/usb/devices/usb1/1-3/1-*:?.*/bInterfaceClass': No such file or directory
cat: '/sys/bus/usb/devices/usb1/1-3/1-*:?.*/bInterfaceSubClass': No such file or directory
cat: '/sys/bus/usb/devices/usb1/1-3/1-*:?.*/bInterfaceProtocol': No such file or directory
/usr/bin/usb-devices: 76: printf: (none): expected numeric value
I: If#=0x Alt= 0 #EPs= 0 Cls=() Sub= Prot= Driver=
One website I found while searching suggested adding usbcore.autosuspend=-1 to the kernel command line via grub but that seems to have had no effect. This is the second third-party xbox 360 controller I've bought that's displaying these kinds of issues, and I just want to figure out if it's because of some odd software configuration, or if I just got two bad devices.
As suggested in a similar poast, I plugged in the device while running $ journalctl --follow and got the following output which does not appear to contain any new useful information.
Oct 16 02:36:54 waffle kernel: usb 1-8.4: new full-speed USB device number 121 using xhci_hcd
Oct 16 02:36:55 waffle kernel: usb 1-8.4: New USB device found, idVendor=045e, idProduct=028e, bcdDevice= 1.10
Oct 16 02:36:55 waffle kernel: usb 1-8.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Oct 16 02:36:55 waffle kernel: usb 1-8.4: Product: Controller
Oct 16 02:36:55 waffle kernel: usb 1-8.4: Manufacturer: ©Microsoft Corporation
Oct 16 02:36:55 waffle kernel: usb 1-8.4: SerialNumber: A0BD0B52
Oct 16 02:36:55 waffle kernel: usb 1-8.4: can't set config #1, error -32
Oct 16 02:36:55 waffle mtp-probe[97045]: checking bus 1, device 121: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.3/0000:03:00.0/usb1/1-8/1-8.4"
Oct 16 02:36:55 waffle mtp-probe[97045]: bus: 1, device: 121 was not an MTP device
Oct 16 02:36:55 waffle mtp-probe[97048]: checking bus 1, device 121: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.3/0000:03:00.0/usb1/1-8/1-8.4"
Oct 16 02:36:55 waffle mtp-probe[97048]: bus: 1, device: 121 was not an MTP device
