Dolphin changed from SDL to Evdev

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davidbrooke · Post by **davidbrooke** » Wed Dec 09, 2015 5:49 pm

I upgraded Dolphin-4.0.2-r7 to Dolphin-9999 to overcome a game problem, which it did. But I now have a new issue. Dolphin changed from a SDL backend to a evdev backend, see url:
https://dolphin-emu.org/download/dev/8a ... ?nocr=true
This causes my Retrolink gamecube controller not to work. I posted earlier about the setup for the controller here:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1 ... t-sdl.html
The controller can be configured/mapped via Dolphin (meaning I can select a button on the controller and it changes on-screen in Dolphin to be mapped to the correct function) but the controller choice changed from:
SDL/0/Generic USB Joystick
to
evdev/0/Generic USB Joystick
So even after configuring/mapping the controller like before, the controller doesn't work in the game.
I'm not sure what my options are at this point? I have reviewed other info like:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Evdev
But I don't see a possible solution.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks

davidbrooke · Post by **davidbrooke** » Wed Dec 09, 2015 7:02 pm

I followed the 11th post here:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1007898.html

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sudo emerge -av sys-apps/input-utils

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sudo lsinput -v
/dev/input/event8
   bustype : BUS_USB
   vendor  : 0x79
   product : 0x6
   version : 272
   name    : "Generic   USB  Joystick  "
   phys    : "usb-0000:00:14.0-10/input0"
   uniq    : ""
   bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY EV_ABS EV_MSC

Create file /etc/udev/rules.d/99-input-joystick.rules:

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KERNEL=="event8", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0006", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0079", MODE="0666"

No difference...same result.

davidbrooke · Post by **davidbrooke** » Wed Dec 09, 2015 7:47 pm

I followed the Dolphin wiki:
https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php? ... in_Dolphin

Created this file /etc/udev/rules.d/98-usb-joystick.rules:

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SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0079", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0006", MODE="0666"

No difference...same result.

davidbrooke · Post by **davidbrooke** » Sun Dec 13, 2015 4:55 pm

Dolphin-9999 has been changed. It now has more USE flags, which includes evdev and sdl. I was able to set -evdev and sdl which allowed the Retrolink GC controller to be used via SDL. I'm glad this works but I would still like to figure out how to use the Retrolink GC controller via evdev.

Silent-Hunter · Post by **Silent-Hunter** » Sat Dec 26, 2015 12:07 am

I'm having this problem too. In fact, no controller is working. I only have Xlib/0/Keyboard Mouse and Xinput2//Virtual core pointer

I also can't seem to find the jstest program to even test my pads.

Post by **NeddySeagoon** » Sat Dec 26, 2015 12:35 pm

Silent-Hunter,

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emerge joystick

Silent-Hunter · Post by **Silent-Hunter** » Sat Dec 26, 2015 3:18 pm

Ah yes, I already found that. But thank you!