So no support for Xbox one controller dongle (non Bluetooth controller). At this point, I guess they’ll never add it, even though steam link hardware had it…
Its an old controller now, but my philosophy is still to use the hardware you have instead of buying new ones. Ah well.
Blame Microsoft for repurposing a wifi dongle as a controller interface, and using an at-runtime firmware override for switching it to controller mode.
You can add support for it manually by installing the xone driver (Tutorial here), but it involves unlocking the file system and will have to be repeated after any steamOS updates. Not really ideal, would be very nice if Valve could include it.
Upstream it into the kernel. Open source usually revolves around everyone solving their own problems (being selfish according to GKH), but everyone else profiting from it as well.
So no support for Xbox one controller dongle (non Bluetooth controller). At this point, I guess they’ll never add it, even though steam link hardware had it…
Its an old controller now, but my philosophy is still to use the hardware you have instead of buying new ones. Ah well.
Blame Microsoft for repurposing a wifi dongle as a controller interface, and using an at-runtime firmware override for switching it to controller mode.
You can add support for it manually by installing the xone driver (Tutorial here), but it involves unlocking the file system and will have to be repeated after any steamOS updates. Not really ideal, would be very nice if Valve could include it.
The repo is outdated, there’s a new fork that should be used.
Which fork? This one?
https://github.com/dlundqvist/xone
Yes that is the one to use
Upstream it into the kernel. Open source usually revolves around everyone solving their own problems (being selfish according to GKH), but everyone else profiting from it as well.
I did it a few times, then got tired of doing it after every update. My hope was always Valve adding it to the system themselves.
Bazzite ships it out of the box:
Another win for Bazzite