Problems while building my arcade with - DragonRise Inc. Generic USB Joystick

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@dragu retroarch does constantly move, indeed. They released 1.7.1 a few days ago. I have no idea if your bug has been submitted, but that would mean that people owning 2 ps3 pads would face the same problem ...

Have you tried the sdl2 input driver ?

[Dragu]

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I also messed around with sdl2, nothing changed. So this seems always a problem when you have 2 wired clone controllers. In game, the cores use both, but in Retroarch you cannot change the user assignement. As example very strange behavior in the Retroarch Menu interface.
Settings --> Input --> User 1 Bind --> User 1 Device Index. In my case you can circle the options between : Dragonrise #0, Port #2, Port #3, Port #4, Disabled.
You have seen that Port #1 is missing, so he just on USB ports, ignoring your nice ES, this from Retropie and Lakka.
But worse, if you circle second time on Dragonrise #0, he pass the handle to your second controller and you must now continu in the Retroarch Menu with User 2.
Nice Bulls**t.

[Dragu]

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I found something interesting with dmesg :

login as: root
root@Recalbox's password:
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# dmesg | grep DragonRise
[    1.923431] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: DragonRise Inc.
[    2.123462] usb 1-1.3: Manufacturer: DragonRise Inc.
[    2.613596] input: DragonRise Inc.   Generic   USB  Joystick   as /devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.0/0003:0079:0006.0001/input/input0
[    2.613853] dragonrise 0003:0079:0006.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Joystick [DragonRise Inc.   Generic   USB  Joystick  ] on usb-3f980000.usb-1.2/input0
[    2.615054] input: DragonRise Inc.   Generic   USB  Joystick   as /devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3:1.0/0003:0079:0006.0002/input/input1
[    2.615295] dragonrise 0003:0079:0006.0002: input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Joystick [DragonRise Inc.   Generic   USB  Joystick  ] on usb-3f980000.usb-1.3/input0
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Is there an error in the last line and position, should it not be input 1 instead of input 0 ?

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@dragu should compare with 2 xinmos. I believe it's normal when a controller handles a single player

As long as they are mapped on separate /dev/input/eventX

[Dragu]

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I totaly agree with you that 1 controller handles a single player. But here he just forget controller #1. So I think that you should be able to map controller #0 to all possible players, with controller #1 (not existing) should be the same.
If I now define in Retroarch Menu, that Player 1 is not existing, after this he map the controller #0 to Player 2, also in game.

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@dragu do your encoders respond on separate events when you try evtest ?

[Dragu]

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Absolutely

# evtest
No device specified, trying to scan all of /dev/input/event*
Available devices:
/dev/input/event0:      DragonRise Inc.   Generic   USB  Joystick
/dev/input/event1:      DragonRise Inc.   Generic   USB  Joystick
/dev/input/event2:      1byone Keyboard
Select the device event number [0-2]:

and he even dont forget my keyboard

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@dragu so it's a pure ra problem

[Dragu]

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Small chance that they resolve with newer version.

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@dragu have you checked their github to see if an issue points at your problem ?

[Dragu]

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Not yet deep inside. Just find traces everywhere. So I will collect. We have 1.6.9 so that's important also.

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@dragu they won't bother with a not up to date RA ...

[Dragu]

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Perhaps, but the time that this story is trailing over the versions...
Discussion in Retropie : https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/issues/1798
(The USB Socket toggeling remember Bells phone time with a lot of young ladies and electric plugs )
and in the Retroarch Github I found the following about controllers :
https://github.com/libretro/retroarch-joypad-autoconfig/tree/master/udev

What I cannot find in our version is the definition : input_device_display_name,
this is perhaps a possibility to distinct the twins ?

[Dragu]

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May be one solution, if not resolved in new version to add usb port number in udev rules ? Like this you would have different device names.

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@dragu what a pain

[Chrisitian Alonso]

Just made my own arcade an came up with the same problem when I set up one the other f**ks up. checked the device ID thing and the were both "ID 0079:0006"