Configuration of the USB game controllers lost at each shutdown.

[Hicks]

I use 64bit 12.04 LTS.

I have several USB game controllers connected to my computer for use with multiple emulators, like qmc2 (mame), snes9x, dolphin-emu and others.

When I start an emulator, it recognizes the USB controls properly.
I set the controls to my liking and everything works fine.

After turning off the computer and start the emuador again, the controls that were configured, normally does not respond.
Accessing the configuration section controls in the emulator again, you can see that there is a previous setting, but that is not correct. In the previous configuration, the joystick was recognized for example such as Joystick 4, when now is marked as Joystick 5.

I think the problem is because the system does not use any unique identifier for the controllers and remember it (imagine every joystick itself will have some sort of unique identifier).

The error does not always happen, as I imagine it depends on the order in which the system starts the devices and names it at every startup. If this order coincides works, if not, does not works.

I think you are doing something similar to the configuration of monitors, for the system to remember each monitor and save the configuration independently of each.

[Hicks (hicks1gb)]

Is not a bluetooth error.
Please, change it!

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

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I'm closing this as 'Invalid' as there has been no activity here for over nine years.