Xbox PC USB Adapter still doesn't work on SteamOS 3.5

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨MrGaiety@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨steamdeck@sopuli.xyz⁩

Just a public PSA and was a little sad. I thought the latest kernel updates would address this. Until then, when you plug the official Xbox Wireless USB in- nothing happens.

The 360 Wireless USB adapter still works tho for some reason. 10+ years and its still kicking.

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EddyBot@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
afaik xone (the kernel driver for the Xbox One dongle) still isn’t part of the linux kernel (neither mainline or steam deck kernel)

since you can also connect the newer Xbox gamepads via bluetooth, it seems like not many people actually care about it

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- conciselyverbose@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Without the adapter there's massive input latency.
  
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  - Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You pretty much can’t game over bluetooth. Idk why they thought that would suffice. Maybe if you have next to no signals bouncing around the room you’re in it would be fine.
    
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  - EddyBot@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    you are right, on my linux pc I also use xone instead of bluetooth
    on the Steam Deck I just use another non-Xbox gamepad instead
    
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  - CorrodedCranium@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Big time
    
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- MrGaiety@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Gotcha. I get that the newer Xbone controllers have BT, but:
  
  2 of mine dont (older controllers)
  
  the ones i have tried on have worse latency than Dualsense (generally only newer controllers have actual good BT latency)
  
  Its just frustrating the 360 adapter “just works” but this newer one doesn’t.
  
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- CorrodedCranium@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I wonder if there’s any easy way to install something like xow on SteamOS
  
  By the way here’s the Arch Wiki page for gamepads. The Xbox One controller section is 3.6
  
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  - EddyBot@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    xow isn’t supported anymore and already gives problems with newer libusb versions
    but xone (the sucessor of xow) will no longer work after a SteamOS update due to the immutable filesystem of the Steam Deck
    
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dandroid@dandroid.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
There’s a way to install it, I have done it myself, but I find it annoy AF that it isn’t preinstalled. And then we have to reinstall it each time the steam deck updates.

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kugmo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Since SteamOS 3.5 allegedly supports nix packaging, will this make root partition modifications like the xone kernel module survive after an update?

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- Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Nix on another distro doesn’t allow changing the kernel, at least not by default. Maybe with some hackery. If you installed NixOS itself, adding xone to the system would be a single line.
  
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