My previous install had issues that seemed to revolve around updating from 15.04 on a machine with full disk encryption on initial install. Things like using the latest kernel would hang on passphrase and htop showing significantly more memory usage than normal for no discernible reason. These were bearable until I got my steam controller and tried to play, steam big picture seems to have a larger resource footprint than the normal client and crashed my games repeatedly. To be clear, the controller was working as intended both on desktop and in-game before reinstall.
After reinstalling, I downloaded the bare minimum of what I had on my machine before, ubuntu-restricted-extras vlc htop aptitude and steam. I did not try the controller right away, work got busy, so now about a month later, steam controller wont work. On wireless alone, the controller turns on and the haptic feedback is there but nothing happens on screen, same in BP mode. on wired the controller acts like the mouse portion of the presets on desktop and BP mode, in-game is more of the same and I cant access controller customization or community through the steam button on the controller.
Xinput has both valve software wireless controller when the dongle is plugged in and valve software wired controller when the usb is plugged. I have tried all of the valve troubleshooting suggestions and browsed about both here and steam's forums for a solution on and off for the last two days with no luck.
I hope I have been clear enough about my problem and what I have already tried, Thanks for the help.
