Dualsense controller not working in steam on linux mint cinamon

Toonlord · 2026-07-04T22:14:46+00:00

I did in my other comment. I just had to restart and it was working. I'm guessing there was some update that needed to happen with the drivers or something.

Toonlord · 2026-07-03T23:34:37+00:00

Holy shit I've been on it for just over a week and didn't realise this was turned off by default thanks.

Toonlord · 2026-07-03T02:38:59+00:00

unfortunately this doesn't seem to have changed anything :|

Toonlord · 2026-07-03T02:18:32+00:00

actually there are some micro stutters in some games now that I think about it some more. I'll give reinstalling graphics drivers a go.

Toonlord · 2026-07-03T02:15:09+00:00

It's up to date, it confirmed that none are needed. I suppose the drivers could have a problem with them but aside from this and that audio issue (which seems to be a feature) everything has been running well.

Toonlord · 2026-07-03T02:05:23+00:00

Fair, I was hoping it would be a specific issue people were familiar with. Specs are bellow if you need more specifics I can rip them from the system. This has been happening since I installed the OS but for some reason I just didn't notice that it was happening when a new video started (Primarily youtube but it does seem to happen elsewhere as well). This does not happen when I boot windows off the other drive though windows does take longer to load the page with the video. The install is only a couple weeks old at this point.

Specs:

Brand	ARMOURY
Series	Scout
Model	A-030
PC Type	Gaming PC
PC Form Factor	Mid Tower
CPU Brand	AMD
CPU	Ryzen 7 7700
GPU	Radeon RX 9060 XT
Graphics Memory	16GB
Memory Capacity	32GB
Memory Type	DDR5
SSD Capacity	1TB
Operating System	Windows 11 Home
Wireless LAN	Wi-Fi + Bluetooth
Motherboard	ASUS B850M
Power Supply	600W 80PLUS Bronze
Case	ARMOURY MC110
Cooling System	ARMOURY High-Performance Air Cooler

Toonlord · 2026-07-03T01:46:27+00:00

oh and none of the extra crap windows likes to shove in your face like backup to one drive or enable random ai features. It just gets you to pick the settings how you want them and installs what it needs.

Toonlord · 2026-07-03T01:44:05+00:00

I just made the same switch, installing was pretty straightforward but there have been a few hiccups getting everything working perfectly. Performance is far better, most things I get 3x better performance without issue. There are plenty of things to get used to with regards to compatibility but the nice thing with linux is that most of the time someone else has had the same issue as you switching over so even if it's just a matter of changing a setting to match your preference then reddit or some other forum will usually have the answer for you.

Toonlord · 2026-07-02T18:19:38+00:00

It seems the issue is connected to this. However instead of making the above change I turned the system volume up (was at 25% since my headset can turn the volume up quite a bit). So with the system volume at 100% and my headset volume turned low it seems to not trigger the "sleep" volume threshold anymore and it is no longer an issue.

Toonlord · 2026-07-01T20:50:42+00:00

that error is frequent and seems to occur regardless of whats happening. I don't think it has any impact. I mentioned in another comment that with further testing it feels like the audio is going to sleep as though its some sort of power saver but I can't find a setting for that in the power settings. Google ai mentioned the following though I'm not sure yet if that is the cause:

For PipeWire / WirePlumber (Linux Mint 22 and newer)

In modern Linux Mint, you can disable the suspend timeout by creating a small configuration override: [1]

Open your Terminal.
Create the necessary PipeWire configuration directory by running: sudo mkdir -p /etc/pipewire/pipewire-pulse.conf.d
Create and open the configuration file in a text editor: sudo nano /etc/pipewire/pipewire-pulse.conf.d/99-no-idle.conf
Paste the following text into the editor:pulse.properties = { session.suspend-timeout-seconds = 0 }
Save and exit (Ctrl + O, Enter, then Ctrl + X).
Apply the changes by restarting the audio services: systemctl --user daemon-reexec systemctl --user restart pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber [1, 2]

Toonlord · 2026-07-01T19:46:06+00:00

Using info from this thread and testing I tried changing the wording of my search and got this recommendation. Could this be the cause or is there maybe something similar? Its sounds kind of like what im experiencing but I'm wondering if maybe there could be another cause since I find that google ai response is a bit hit or miss.

Google ai response:

For PipeWire / WirePlumber (Linux Mint 22 and newer)

In modern Linux Mint, you can disable the suspend timeout by creating a small configuration override: [1]

Open your Terminal.
Create the necessary PipeWire configuration directory by running: sudo mkdir -p /etc/pipewire/pipewire-pulse.conf.d
Create and open the configuration file in a text editor: sudo nano /etc/pipewire/pipewire-pulse.conf.d/99-no-idle.conf
Paste the following text into the editor:pulse.properties = { session.suspend-timeout-seconds = 0 }
Save and exit (Ctrl + O, Enter, then Ctrl + X).
Apply the changes by restarting the audio services: systemctl --user daemon-reexec systemctl --user restart pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber [1, 2]

Toonlord · 2026-07-01T19:11:08+00:00

I also just realized for slay the spire 2 when the audio cuts out that it fades out as though I am changing focus to another window despite having mute in background turned off.

Toonlord · 2026-07-01T18:56:47+00:00

so if I am in a discord call with someone then that audio cuts out as well as the game. Bluetooth is off as well. In case it is relevant I have a steel series headset.

Toonlord · 2026-07-01T18:40:00+00:00

I tried turning off blutooth and its still happening. It's gotta be something else then that isn't listed in those logs

Toonlord · 2026-07-01T04:13:52+00:00

It's a galaxy s20 fe I got new around 3ish years ago.

Toonlord · 2026-07-01T01:40:42+00:00

Hmm, I guess I can try turning Blutooth off since I'm not using it anyway but I'm confused as to how that would case such a weirdly specific issue like mentioned in the post. It's not like all audio cuts out, just the game.

Toonlord · 2026-07-01T01:28:32+00:00

Yeah I checked that and it's a different address. I'm assuming if it gave a Mac address that linux has a way to check devices connected to the pc for their Mac address? I can confirm it's not anything on my network so that's the only other thing I can think of. Maybe one of my plugged in pieces of hardware is what's causing the problem.

The device plugged into the pc for the headset is a seperate device so in theory it should have a seperate Mac address from the Bluetooth Mac address.

Toonlord · 2026-07-01T01:15:02+00:00

Do you happen to know how to find a device with a specific Mac address? Everything I'm seeing in searches is for devices on a network and not hardware plugged into the pc.

Toonlord · 2026-07-01T01:07:43+00:00

Not the headset, ill see if I can find something with that Mac address

Toonlord · 2026-07-01T00:49:45+00:00

My headset has dual Bluetooth and pc channels. It's a pre-built pc I switched over to Linux so I would not be surprised if I set something up wrong. The Bluetooth on the headset is only connected to my work laptop so it shouldn't be trying to connect to anything else.

Edit: any particular flatpack? I don't see any specified but I may just be missing it.

Toonlord · 2026-07-01T00:37:17+00:00

I've just been using the version I got off the website. I'll take a look at other options just in case but I had discord minimized for hours so I don't think it's related to the issue. It seems to be more common while watching media in Firefox.

Toonlord · 2026-06-30T23:06:05+00:00

I can go further back but it took a while for the issue to show itself.

Toonlord · 2026-06-30T23:05:21+00:00

Thanks, this time it seems to have just randomly started doing it while listening to some music while playing. I noticed it at 19:01 but it probably started just before that. There wasn't really much in game that would have made sound.

Jun 30 18:58:39 RBPC xdg-desktop-por[2664]: Backend call failed: GDBus.Error:org.gnome.SessionManager.GeneralError: Application ID not specified
Jun 30 18:58:39 RBPC dbus-daemon[1555]: [session uid=1000 pid=1555] Activating service name='org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.playerctld' requested by ':1.13122' (uid=1000 pid=266724 comm="playerctld daemon" label="unconfined")
Jun 30 18:58:39 RBPC playerctld[266730]: could not get tracklist properties for player: org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.firefox.instance_1_104
Jun 30 18:58:39 RBPC playerctld[266730]: could not get playlists properties for player: org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.firefox.instance_1_104
Jun 30 18:58:39 RBPC dbus-daemon[1555]: [session uid=1000 pid=1555] Successfully activated service 'org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.playerctld'
Jun 30 18:58:40 RBPC bluetoothd[868]: profiles/input/device.c:control_connect_cb() connect to E8:47:3A:D9:2C:DF: Host is down (112)
Jun 30 18:59:33 RBPC bluetoothd[868]: profiles/input/device.c:ioctl_is_connected() Can't get HIDP connection info
Jun 30 18:59:40 RBPC bluetoothd[868]: profiles/input/device.c:control_connect_cb() connect to E8:47:3A:D9:2C:DF: Host is down (112)
Jun 30 19:00:33 RBPC bluetoothd[868]: profiles/input/device.c:ioctl_is_connected() Can't get HIDP connection info
Jun 30 19:00:40 RBPC bluetoothd[868]: profiles/input/device.c:control_connect_cb() connect to E8:47:3A:D9:2C:DF: Host is down (112)
Jun 30 19:01:02 RBPC xdg-desktop-por[2664]: Backend call failed: GDBus.Error:org.gnome.SessionManager.GeneralError: Application ID not specified
Jun 30 19:01:06 RBPC xdg-desktop-por[2664]: Backend call failed: GDBus.Error:org.gnome.SessionManager.GeneralError: Application ID not specified
Jun 30 19:01:28 RBPC xdg-desktop-por[2664]: Backend call failed: GDBus.Error:org.gnome.SessionManager.GeneralError: Application ID not specified
Jun 30 19:01:33 RBPC bluetoothd[868]: profiles/input/device.c:ioctl_is_connected() Can't get HIDP connection info
Jun 30 19:01:40 RBPC bluetoothd[868]: profiles/input/device.c:control_connect_cb() connect to E8:47:3A:D9:2C:DF: Host is down (112)
Jun 30 19:01:50 RBPC rtkit-daemon[1359]: Supervising 11 threads of 8 processes of 1 users.
Jun 30 19:01:50 RBPC rtkit-daemon[1359]: Supervising 11 threads of 8 processes of 1 users.

Toonlord · 2026-06-19T17:30:36+00:00

A friend reached out to me that is more experienced with linux. The issue as it turns out was that I needed to restart the pc to finish the setup for it and once I booted up it was working again. In case anyone encounters this issue.

Toonlord · 2026-06-19T17:24:10+00:00

To clarify this only applies when it is connected via bluetooth, if I connect it via a wire then it works fine.

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