Xin-mo dual arcade controller not recognized as two in installed mode

Libretro Lakka
#1

Hi! I have a problem with my xin-mo dual arcade controller in Lakka running on a PC.

I have two players connected to the xin-mo board, with both players having a joystick and six buttons. The xin-mo is connected with a single USB to the PC. When connecting the arcade controller to a Windows PC, the PC recognizes it as two separate controllers, as it should. In Lakka however the controller is recognized as a single controller.

I already found that I need to add “usbhid.quirks=0x16c0:0x05e1:0x040” into the syslinux.cfg file. When accassing the commandline via Putty I can unfortunately not access this file. It simply does not seem to exists.

Via this topic: Problems with controls “juyao dual arcade” I found that it is possible to launch Lakka from a USB and edit the commandline from the boot menu. When I type in the boot menu “live usbhid.quirks=0x16c0:0x05e1:0x040” and open live mode, Lakka recognizes the xin-mo as two separate controllers (yay!).

I would like to have this function be permanently implemented in the installed mode. Typing “installer usbhid.quirks=0x16c0:0x05e1:0x040” in the boot menu does install Lakka as normal. This does however not seem to do anything in the end. Lakka still doesn’t recognize the controller as two separates, and I still can’t reach the syslinux.cfg file via SSH using Putty.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

#2

Did you try this documentation ?

#3

Can you connect your Lakka-installed drive to a Windows/Linux PC and browse the drive? If so, you should be able to find the file in the smaller Lakka partition.

#4

I did indeed try the remount method. When connected via SSH using Putty I can however stil not find the right file:

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When trying to edit the syslinux.cfg file it just creates a new file:

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Hoping for better luck I also tried this running on a Linux machine. Unfortunately the same results here:

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#5

I can unfortunately not connect the HDD to an other computer, since I only have access to laptops. I did try to get acces to the file system via my network using Samba:

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When browsing the file system I still can’t find the right file.

#6

Got it!

In this documentation it is said that you need to edit the syslinux.cfg file. This is incorrect. It should be “nano /flash/extlinux.conf”. So after I remounted /flash I could edit the extlinux.conf file. When adding “usbhid.quirks=0x16c0:0x05e1:0x040” after the APPEND command and made sure the whole after APPEND was on one line, I could reboot and it al works!

Can someone change the “nano /flash/syslinux.cfg” line on the Lakka website?

Thanks anyway for you help @gouchi and @hunterk!

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#7

The documentation is correct for Lakka 2.1 but I will update the documentation with depending of your version you need to edit syslinux.cfg or extlinux.conf

You may test Lakka 2.1 RC3 if you want :wink:

#8

That’s a great idea. I will. Thanks!

#9

I am still having issue with this? how Do i edit the file? I just put that line of code in? I can log in with putty but dont know what commnds i need to input to even get to the config.txt file or whatever it may be. I’m using an old windows pc. Lakka boots off a usb. SHould I be editing a file with notepad on my other pc or just use putty and input some code somewhere… im so confused.

#10

OKay so now ive completely screwed my lakka up and it wont even boot anymore…

I have Lakka on a usb that I plug into an old pc to run lakka. on the usb drive there is

EFI>(this is a folder) -KERNEL
KERNEL.MD5
SYSLINUX.CFG
SYSTEM
SYSTEM.MD5

And in the EFI folder there is a BOOT folder with a few more files .

One of the files in the boot folder is another file name syslinux.cfg which is the exact same name of the file in the parent folder.

I open that file with note pad and get this

SAY Wait for live session to start or press for more options (installer)
DEFAULT live
TIMEOUT 50
PROMPT 1


LABEL installer
KERNEL /KERNEL
APPEND boot=UUID=2111-3926 installer quiet tty vga=current vt.global_cursor_default=0 loglevel=2

LABEL live
KERNEL /KERNEL
APPEND boot=UUID=2111-3926 disk=UUID=b9ef8ad9-785d-4546-a992-032454f63ce7 portable quiet vt.global_cursor_default=0 loglevel=2

and right after APPEND i manually put the code usbhid.quirks=0x16c0:0x05e1:0x040 (which im not even sure thats right right ID cand venddor which i cant figure out. mine is called twin usb controller not xin mo)

Then i saved the file, put the usb back into the old pc and now it wont even boot

HELP!!!

I Just want my usb to register as two devices, It shouldnt be this complicated… the guides on here absolutely suck unless your a linux developer full time day job. I am an average dude how the hell do i do this. I need step by bloody step and not 5 broken guides that all assume you know what your doing. I dont! so guide me

#11

First of all do you have an xin-mo dual arcade controller ? You can check the output of lsusb as described in this page.

Then you can try to boot by entering in the boot menu live usbhid.quirks=0x16c0:0x05e1:0x040. If it is working you can edit the bootloader configuration file following this documentation. You should have something like this :

LABEL live
KERNEL /KERNEL
APPEND boot=UUID=2111-3926 disk=UUID=b9ef8ad9-785d-4546-a992-032454f63ce7 portable quiet vt.global_cursor_default=0 loglevel=2 usbhid.quirks=0x16c0:0x05e1:0x040
#12

Thanks for all the help, I believe I have followed everything to get the Xin-Mo Dual Arcade to work, but the change to “/flash/extlinux.conf” (usbhid.quirks=0x16c0:0x05e1:0x040 at the end of the APPEND line) only seems to change the port of the device index from #1 to #0. Regardless of how I map the joystick/keys they "control’ both players at the same time! Thanks!

#13

I got my Xin Mo controller working properly on an Asus Tinkerboard running Lakka 2.2 by removing the SD card and editing the file /extlinux/extlinux.conf on a windows 10 pc, using Wordpad, as shown below.

label Lakka
    kernel /zImage
    fdt /rk3288-miniarm.dtb
    append earlyprintk boot=/dev/mmcblk0p1 disk=/dev/mmcblk0p2 quiet ssh usbhid.quirks=0x16c0:0x05e1:0x040

The file is on the first partition, windows wants to format the second partition, don’t let it do that.