Wont recognise my PS4 DualShock4 controller

[Chrisj01]

Hi, I cannot get my PS4 controller to be recognised at all.

I'm using Mint 18.1,, kernel 4.8.

I have a generic PS3 controller and never had any issues getting that to work, using xboxdrv, and been working great for years.

Now I bought a DS4, and USB cable, as I don't have a bluetooth adapter. When Its plugged in it just glows orange to show its charging, does not change to blue etc at all. Already have xboxdrv and it does not work with that. I then saw about ds4drv, installed it, but when I run "ds4drv --hidraw" it just gets stuck on "scanning for devices" and never finds it.

I installed jstest-gtk and evtest and neither recognise the controller at all.

Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.

[ClixTrix]

Check out the ds4drv driver.

https://github.com/chrippa/ds4drv

[Chrisj01]

I already said in my post above that I have...

[ClixTrix]

I was pointing to the Github site to see if there were any bug reports helpful. That should be the correct driver (from my checks).

Edit: For instance...

https://github.com/chrippa/ds4drv/issues/160

Edit2: Are you sure it's a good controller? Is USB at least detecting the controller? Try running lsusb command from Terminal to see if it is.

Edit3: I see what I did wrong on prior post, copied the wrong URL. I was trying to point to the bug report section. Not enough coffee in me yet.

[Chrisj01]

Oh ok, yeah it is a brand new controller, bought it yesterday, and it works on my brothers PS4.

This is the output from lsusb

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Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 258a:1006  
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1d57:ad17 Xenta 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

The second one is my keyboard and the second to last is my mouse. So no lsusb does not pick it up. It is not the USB port either as I have tried it various ports, including known working ones.

[ClixTrix]

Does the kernel log (run dmesg from Terminal) give any errors at the point where you plug-in the USB cable? If no, I'm suspecting a bad controller or USB cable. FYI.....some micro-USB cables are for CHARGE ONLY, and don't operate for data use.

[Chrisj01]

Does the kernel log (run dmesg from Terminal) give any errors at the point where you plug-in the USB cable? If no, I'm suspecting a bad controller or USB cable. FYI.....some micro-USB cables are for CHARGE ONLY, and don't operate for data use.

No, nothing of note in the kernel log. Well the cable I bought specifically says "Charge and Play" so I don't think it is that. I am seeing my brother again later, so I will use his official USB cable that came with the PS4 to see if it is the cable for definite.

[ClixTrix]

Well, if it's not showing in log and lsusb doesn't show it, pretty good chance it's the cable or the device. Yep, try another cable.

[ClixTrix]

Well, cable might indeed be the problem. Here's a good read...

https://community.eu.playstation.com/t5 ... p/24833039

[Chrisj01]

Well, cable might indeed be the problem. Here's a good read...

https://community.eu.playstation.com/t5 ... p/24833039

Yeah it turns out it was the cable! The controller works fine with the official cable that came with my brothers PS4! What a con, the box the cable came in said "play and charge"!

Thanks for your help.

[Chrisj01]

I was on Linux Mint 18.1, but have done fresh install on 19.1 and now the controller works fine, but for some really odd reason, when I connect the controller to the USB cable, it cuts off ALL of my sound. Like no sound comes from anything, the game/system or anything at all.

One thing that is different is when I was on 18.1 and connected the cable the light on the PS4 controller did not light up at all, even thought the controller worked fine. Now it does light up, but get this issue with the sound. Really weird.
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