Hi everyone,

hope you could help me with my problem…. I’m actually this freaked out and dont know where to look for erors anymore…

I’ve set up RetroPie with the installation instruction on this wiki. Its works fine. I Already got 1 xbox 360 Wireless controller working (although like mentioned in the wiki) and already started a game. Everythings perfect.

Now i tried to install a second Xbo 360 Wireless Controller. I plugged the wireless usb receiver in my pi and started it.
No xbox controller is recognized. The “X” is blinking ==> not connected/recognized.

If i remove the second wireless usb controller and reboot, my first Xbox Controller is recognized and i can play.

I’ve got the following config:

/etc/rc.local:

#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.

# Print the IP address
_IP=$(hostname -I) || true
if [ "$_IP" ]; then
  printf "My IP address is %s\n" "$_IP"
fi
xboxdrv --trigger-as-button --wid 0 --led 2 --detach-kernel-driver --deadzone 4000 --silent &
sleep 1
xboxdrv --trigger-as-button --wid 1 --led 3 --detach-kernel-driver --deadzone 4000 --silent &
exit 0

The steps i already did:
1. Remove the entries in rc.local and reboot with only 1 inserted 360 usb wireless connector. then i used the command:xboxdrv --trigger-as-button --wid 0 --led 2 --detach-kernel-driver --deadzone 4000 --silent & and the xboxdrv says “connected” and my xbox controller was recognized and i could game on.
2. Remove the entries in rc.local and reboot with my 2 inserted 360 usb wireless cc onnectors. Then i used the same command as above and i received the error

root@raspberrypi:~# xboxdrv --trigger-as-button --wid 0 --led 2 --detach-kernel-driver --deadzone 4000 --silent &
[1] 2466
root@raspberrypi:~# xboxdrv 0.8.4 - http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/xboxdrv/
Copyright © 2008-2011 Ingo Ruhnke <>
Licensed under GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain
conditions; see the file COPYING for details.

Controller:        Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless Controller (PC)
Vendor/Product:    045e:0719
USB Path:          001:004
Wireless Port:     0
Controller Type:   Xbox360 (wireless)

-- [ ERROR ] ------------------------------------------------------
 Error couldn't claim the USB interface: LIBUSB_ERROR_BUSY
Try to run 'rmmod xpad' and then xboxdrv again or start xboxdrv with the option --detach-kernel-driver.

Looking at dmesg, it shows that the pi recognizes both my xbox 360 controllers:

3.134469] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: register 'smsc95xx' at usb-bcm2708_usb-1.1, smsc95xx USB 2.0 Ethernet, b8:27:eb:73:21:8b
[    3.259321] usb 1-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 4 using dwc_otg
[    3.397546] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=045e, idProduct=0719
[    3.414211] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[    3.437297] usb 1-1.2: Product: Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver for Windows
[    3.459094] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: \xffffffc2\xffffffa9\xffffffa9Microsoft
[    3.465621] usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: E0182D10
[    3.579342] usb 1-1.3: new full-speed USB device number 5 using dwc_otg
[    3.740598] usb 1-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=045e, idProduct=0719
[    3.759074] usb 1-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[    3.779061] usb 1-1.3: Product: Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver for Windows
[    3.787485] usb 1-1.3: Manufacturer: \xffffffc2\xffffffa9\xffffffa9Microsoft
[    3.808511] usb 1-1.3: SerialNumber: E0181EF0
[    3.981278] udevd[156]: starting version 175
[    5.779547] input: Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver as /devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.0/input/input0
[    6.079829] input: Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver as /devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.2/input/input1
[    6.298350] bcm2708-i2s bcm2708-i2s.0: Failed to create debugfs directory
[    6.577381] input: Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver as /devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.4/input/input2
[    6.935715] input: Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver as /devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.6/input/input3
[    7.160676] input: Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver as /devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3:1.0/input/input4
[    7.329853] input: Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver as /devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3:1.2/input/input5
[    7.508802] input: Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver as /devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3:1.4/input/input6
[    7.679934] input: Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver as /devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3:1.6/input/input7
[    7.802765] usbcore: registered new interface driver xpad
[   12.661666] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
[   13.267071] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
[   25.236442] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: hardware isn't capable of remote wakeup
[   26.795305] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xC1E1
[   34.064877] Adding 102396k swap on /var/swap.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:102396k SSFS
[   34.549470] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.16
[   34.552717] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[   34.552749] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[   34.552853] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[   34.552883] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[   34.552976] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[   34.629324] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[   34.629358] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[   34.629439] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
[   34.685109] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[   34.685244] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[   34.685264] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
[   38.003415] input: Xbox Gamepad (userspace driver) as /devices/virtual/input/input8

Do you have any ideas/hints for me ? Im trying to get the 2 controllers to work for 3 days now and actually i dont have another idea where to look/what to do…

Thanks !

Retrogamer