I’m Running Linux Mint 21.3 mainly using Lutris and Steam for some native Linux games. It’s so annoying, especially when it sometimes disconnects the gamepad. I’m using an Xbox One S controller connected through a USB cable.
I’m Running Linux Mint 21.3 mainly using Lutris and Steam for some native Linux games. It’s so annoying, especially when it sometimes disconnects the gamepad. I’m using an Xbox One S controller connected through a USB cable.
If you’re playing the games in Steam, using Steam Input, there’s an option to disable it.
Steam->SettingsController->Game rumble
A number of games will also have an option to do so.
EDIT: If you are certain that you don’t ever want rumble, you could probably open up the controller and just disconnect one of the wires running to each motor. I think that the XBox controllers use security bits, though. I had to open one a while back.
kagis
Yeah:
https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/Xbox_Controller_Screwdriver
Note that the security Torx bits aren’t regular Torx bits, so if you do want to do that, be sure to get the security bit.
Disabling it in steam input doesn’t disable it in Lutris. I have already thought about disconnecting the motors as an alternative method after making sure there’s nothing in the software that can do that, as in Windows.
Also, thanks for the info on the screwdriver.
It sounds like the controllers may also have some persistent internal “disable rumble” setting that Microsoft’s software can toggle:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1440127/xubuntu-22-04-any-way-to-disable-gamepads-from-rumbling-force-feedback
Not sure if that’s the same controller as yours, but also might be worth looking at.
It did let me disable it on the Xbox Accessories app back on Windows. Then it stopped working, and I couldn’t open it again because it thought I had an old version of Windows for some reason. Now on Linux, it is still working aggressively to the point that the controller sometimes disconnects or falls off my hand.
As a person who has opened up a few xbox controllers to clean them up ‘to the max’, it’s probably beginner level DIY to open it up and disconnect the rumble motors. I think it was even broken in one or two we had ( OG xbox and wired 360 versions), and the system doesn’t prompt you to do something about or, or refuse service (can you imagine? that would suck). Still, I’d try to disconnect it non-destructively first
Wow. I did not know about the Torx security thing. It looks like the ifixit kits come with a torx security instead of a regular torx, so I never even noticed when I took my controller apart to replace a shoulder button. 🤯
You could break the security pin or use a small flat-head screwdriver.
I didn’t have a Torx screwdriver, so I broke the pin and used a regular polydrive, disconnected the red wire, and rolled tape around the exposed end.