The Game Controller Kit doesn't show the controllers at startup, so the HIDAPI driver sees them first and therefore gets preference when a controller is supported by both drivers.
This fixes bug https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues/4209
To enter Bluetooth pairing mode hold B and Action (button with circle) buttons for 3 seconds.
It works via usual HIDAPI if special filter driver is not installed:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GZCT4CTFHXLHEB9T
With that driver installed it mimics Xbox One controller and works via XInput under Windows.
Under DInput this controller is not usable at all.
When Xbox One/Series Controllers are connected via USB on Windows they all are using `XBOXGIP` driver and produce a special ProductID `0x02FF` (GIP software PID) for any connected controller.
On the other hand `Xbox 360 Wireless Controller Reciever` (PID 0x0719) is using `XUSB` driver and produces special ProductID `0x02A1` (XUSB software PID) for each connected Xbox 360 Wireless Controller.
Also fixed Xbox One Series X Controller comment.
I have a buggy system which reports a udev "change" event for an empty
USB-C port every 0.14 seconds, which causes annoying frame hitches
because SDL decides that means it needs to do a libusb hid_enumerate,
which is slow (~25ms!) because of the get_usb_string() calls in there.
We only need to re-enumerate if we've seen a device added or removed, so
let's filter out the change event first.
Signed-off-by: Steven Noonan <steven@valvesoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
In the extremely unlikely event that inotify is not available (and,
therefore, HAVE_INOTIFY is not #defined), SDL will no-longer build.
This is because <unistd.h> is only included when HAVE_INOTIFY is
defined, and PR #4098 adds a call to access(…, F_OK), which requires
<unistd.h>.
(Note that the F_OK symbol is the only one which actually prevented
SDL from compiling, but both access() and close() fell back to implicit
definitions, which is a bit concerning.)
Fixes: 8d43f45a7b ("Don't use udev for joystick enumeration if running in a container")
If we are running in a container, like Flatpak[1] or pressure-vessel[2],
it's likely that we are using user namespaces,
therefore udev event notification via netlink won't work reliably.
Use their filesystem API to detect them and automatically fallback to
the inotify-based enumeration.
[1] <https://flatpak.org/>
[2]
<https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steam-runtime-tools/-/tree/master/pressure-vessel>
Signed-off-by: Ludovico de Nittis <ludovico.denittis@collabora.com>
This improves SDL's ability to detect HIDAPI joystick hotplug in a
container environment because we cannot reliably receive events from
udev in a container.
For a more detailed explanation of why this issue happens with
containers, please check the previous commit
"joystick: Use inotify to detect joystick unplug if not using udev"
(b0eba1c5).
Signed-off-by: Ludovico de Nittis <ludovico.denittis@collabora.com>
As already explained in the previous commit "joystick: Allow libudev to
be disabled at runtime" (13e7d1a9), libudev can fail in a container.
To make it easier to experiment with, we add a new environment variable
"SDL_HIDAPI_JOYSTICK_DISABLE_UDEV" that disables udev and let it
fallback to the device enumeration using polling.
Signed-off-by: Ludovico de Nittis <ludovico.denittis@collabora.com>
This fixes problems with controllers not being re-detected when a computer goes to sleep and a controller is removed and plugged back in while it's asleep.
This fixes bad report parsing for various newer Xbox controllers, and this driver is now preferred over XInput, since it handles more than 4 controllers.
Added support for the PS4 controller gyro and accelerometer on iOS and HIDAPI drivers
Also fixed an issue with the accelerometer on iOS having inverted axes
Xbox Elite controllers use AUX1-AUX4 to represent the paddle buttons when using the HIDAPI driver
PS4 and PS5 controllers use AUX1 to represent the touchpad button
Nintendo Switch Pro controllers use AUX1 to represent the capture button
Anthony Pesch
I was looking into my own input bug and noticed an issue in the HIDAPI code while looking over it. I don't have a controller that goes down this path to test and try to provoke the issue, but it looks pretty straight forward.
The memmove to shift the joystick id array on disconnect isn't scaling the size by sizeof(SDL_JoystickID), likely corrupting the ids on disconnect.
Jan Bujak
I wrote a new driver for my gamepad on Linux. I'd like SDL to support it out-of-box, as currently it just treats it as a generic joystick instead of a gamepad. From what I can see the only way to do that is to either 1) pick one of the already supported controllers' PID, VID and button layouts and have my driver send that (effectively lying that it's something else), or 2) submit a preconfigured, hardcoded mapping to SDL.
Both of those, in my opinion, are silly when we already have the Linux Gamepad Specification which standarizes this:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.15/input/gamepad.html
Unfortunately SDL doesn't make use of it currently. So I've took it upon myself to add it; patch is in the attachments.
Basically what the patch does is that if SDL finds no built-it controller mappings for a given joystick it then asks the joystick backend to autodetect it, and that uses the relevant evdev bits to figure out which button/axis is which. (See the specs for more details.)
With this patch applied my own driver for my controller works out-of-box with SDL with no extra configuration and is correctly recognized as a gamepad; this is also going to be the case for any other driver which follows the Linux Gamepad Specification.
Jimb Esser
Add new RawInput controller API, and improved correlation with XInput/WGI
Reorder joystick init so drivers can ask the others if they handle a device reliably
Do not poll disconnected XInput devices (major perf issue)
Fix various cases where incorrect correlation could happen
Simple mechanism for propagating unhandled Guide button presses even before guaranteed correlation
Correlate by axis motion as well as button presses
Fix failing to zero other trigger
Fix SDL_HINT_JOYSTICK_HIDAPI not working if set before calling SDL_Init()
Add missing device to device names
Disable RawInput if we have a mismatch of XInput-capable but not RawInput-capable devices
Updated to SDL 2.0.13 code with the following notes:
New HID driver: xbox360w - no idea what that is, hopefully urelated
SDL_hidapijoystick.c had been refactored to couple data handling logic with device opening logic and device lists caused some problems, yields slightly uglier integration than previously when the 360 HID device driver was just handling the data.
SDL_hidapijoystick.c now often pulls the device off of the joystick_hwdata structure for some rumble logic, but it appears that code path is never reached, so probably not a problem.
Looks like joystick_hwdata was refactored to not include a mutex in other drivers, maintainers may want to do the same refactor here if that's useful for some reason.
Something changed in how devices get names, so getting generic names.
Had to fix a (new?) bug where removing an XInput controller caused existing controllers (that moved to a new XInput index) to get identified as 0x045e/0x02fd ("it's probably Bluetooth" in code), rendering the existing HIDAPI_IsDevicePresent and new RAWINPUT_IsDevicePresent unreliable.
Jake Breen
When I run SDL_INIT with SDL_INIT_JOYSTICK it stalls for about 10 seconds (last report was 10,615ms), but only if I'm currently playing audio. (Like in Spotify for example.)
querying something related to device access (last dll loaded)
'BabbysFirst64.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\deviceaccess.dll'.
I use a USB DAC because my mobo's audio out is pretty not great. And I've noticed unplugging it seems to solve the issue. I haven't noticed any other issues that are caused by my DAC.
My DAC is the Sound BlasterX G1 https://us.creative.com/p/gaming-headsets/sound-blasterx-g1
Vid = 041E
PID = 3249
My system specs:
- Windows 10 Pro
- Ryzen 2700x
- 16GB Ram
- Nvidia 2070 RTX
Additional USB devices plugged in:
- Valve Index
- Xbox One Elite Controller
There is now a thread that handles all HIDAPI rumble requests and a lock that guarantees that we're not reading and writing the device at the same time.
