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Hi there, having two dualsense and one ps4 controller, using them for ages on Linux and they mostly run great, but your issues doesn’t sound completely new either.
It’s very important on how you installed Steam and whether it's native package or Flatpak. For Flatpak you might need special udev rules to allow the controller inside sandbox, usually can be installed using steam-devices package.
As others said, enable Playstation Controller support in Steam's controller settings page.
Check if Steam overlay is functioning. In-game, press Shift+Tab and you should see the overlay and then you should be able to get to controller settings. Try out both with Steam Input enabled and disabled - by default I guess it depends on the game, but mostly enabling it will make it work for games that have issues picking up ds natively.
Test your controllers using something like jstest-gtk. Perhaps there is something else connected that acts as player 1 controller.
I figured out the issue. Really weird. Steam compatibility mode was disabled so enabling it made my controller work. No idea why. Thanks for the reply though!
Yeah, it's a bit counter intuitive and I had the same issue on Windows a couple years ago.
As I understood it, if games on PC don't have native PS5 Controller Support, steam needs to jump in to emulate it. That's why it needs to he activated.
That makes sense. It was so annoying figuring it out
Pretty much because for some reason it’s broken mess in native games with SDL, and works nicely when using Proton, I noticed that too.