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Something like a Steam Deck or Steam Machine that “just works” is definitely worthwhile.
I recently bought a cheap mini PC with a 780M for like $380. It’s 2x the GPU power of a Steam Deck but probably half the GPU power of a Steam Machine (likely half the price too).
Anyhow, it’s running Mint and my XBox controllers randomly disconnect. I’ve spent a few hours troubleshooting with no success so far, and my next steps are buy a USB Bluetooth dongle and see if that works or switch to Bazzite. On the other hand, I never had any problems like this with my Steam Deck. I also don’t use Steam and use Lutris instead, which sometimes requires time spent troubleshooting and jacking around with dependencies / GE Proton versions / etc., whereas Steam games would “just work”.
It’s worth the extra time to me to avoid Steam’s data collection and to be able to run alternative versions of games without DRM that I can run semi-sandboxed in the Flatpak version of Lutris with network permissions revoked so the games can’t collect data either. However, I certainly understand people not giving a shit about any of that and just wanting something that works with no trouble.
I’ve had the same problem with my Xbox controllers on Cachy. The xone repo had an issue about the controllers not working after sleep until the dongle is physically re-plugged, and it got closed for some reason.
I think the codebase owner is as frustrated as I am, and I’ll admit I have no driver knowledge, but it’d be great if someone could find a solution.
Oh, that’s interesting. I’m assuming my cheap mini PC is using an obscure built-in BT chipset that may not be well supported on Linux. It may actually be the controllers themselves, though no issues on SteamOS. I suppose a dongle that can be unplugged and reconnected to mitigate the issue would at least be an improvement over a built-in chipset with this problem.
I had random issues with a laptop bluetooth adaptor around 6-7 years ago. I was able to hack together a script that wrote "0" to the /power endpoint of the PCI device in the sysfs, and then triggered a rescan of the PCI bus as a workaround.
Maybe something similar could work for your case, depending on how the bluetooth device is connected. Just an idea, not sure if it will work for you, but may be worth looking at.
Appreciate it! I’ll keep this in mind if hopping to Bazzite doesn’t magically fix it.