I am trying to get Outer Wilds running on my Debian machine, and the “running” itself was a breeze. It runs perfectly on Lutris. But somehow my controller doesn’t communicate with the game. I did check if it is being picked up at all, and using the jstest-gtk tool, I could see that every input is being registered. Same applies to steam, Even in Big Picture mode nothing happens on screen when tapping all the buttons or moving some joystick.
Does someone know how I could go about fixing this issue? At first I thought that this would be a wine thing, but steam is native, and even it doesn’t recognize the controller…
I am really just using some very cheap off brand controller I found at some store. It does work on my RetroPie, but not my Debian pc. I have now switched over to my steam controller (since it works without any problems) and playing with it feels fine too.
So I guess I the problem has been solved for me, but the mystery of what causes this issue remains.
I’d suggest checking section 5.3 of the arch linux wiki gamepad page. Debian probably either has an older version of the related package or retroPie might have extra patches. Could not say what package for certain though. Arch Wiki Gamepad