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Steam Beta switches the A and B on my Nintendo Wii U Pro Controller

steamopen Distro Family: ArchGeneral controller / Steam Input
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#10445 · opened 2024-01-30 by HurricanePootis · updated 2024-03-02 · 1 comments · github
HHurricanePootis 2024-01-30 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 1706390103
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Arch Linux
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: [Yes]
  • Have you checked for system updates?: [Yes]
  • Steam Logs: [generate by running this command in a terminal tar -zcvf ~/Desktop/steam-logs.tar.gz ~/.steam/steam/logs]
    steam-logs.tar.gz
  • GPU: AMD

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Describe what you expected should happen and what did happen. Please link any large code pastes as a Github Gist

As of today, whenever I press A or B, they are switched with each other on my Nintendo Wii U Pro Controller on Linux. Whenever I go into the settings to tell steam to use a Nintendo Controller Layout, nothing changes regardless of the setting state. To test if this was a beta problem, I switched back to stable Steam and my controller started to work normally again.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Opt-In to Steam Beta
  2. Connected Nintendo Wii U Pro Controller via Bluetooth to Computer
  3. Go to Settings --> Controller and click on Begin Test
  4. Observe how A and B is switched
  5. Test the Nintendo option, and observe how it does not work
HHurricanePootis 2024-03-02 github

Welp, I just connected my Wii U Pro controller after some time, and it seems like this bug has made it to mainline steam. Super disappointing that I am now unable to use a product I owned with games I own due to a software decision made somewhere by somebody in Valve.

Nothing extracted yet.