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Fedora and Switch 1 Pro Controller? (fedia.io)
submitted 2 months ago by Hello_there@fedia.io to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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I'm having a heck of a time trying to connect the Switch Pro controller to latest Fedora over Bluetooth. It will pair, but won't 'connect' - meaning is unusable. This happens over GUI and command line.

SteamOS can do this fine once the initial configuration is done. Any suggestions on attempts to fix this?

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[–] waterproof@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I had the same issue some time ago, and found that connecting with bluetoothctl in the terminal gave way more reliable results than the visual interface

[–] Hello_there@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's your distro? And to a nintendo pro controller? I tried Bluetooth CTL but it gave the same error as the GUI.

[–] waterproof@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Right now i'm on mint, but when this issue happened, i was on fedora 42.

But if bluetoothctl does not work either, maybe it's another issue that i had (maybe the drivers or something)