There exists a bug in the Linux xpad-driver, which can lead to serious hard-crashes mostly in UE (Unreal Engine) games, when a Xbox360-controller is connected to your computer What you can observe when you hit this bug varies from simple Kernel-messages to complete Kernel-lockups with “hard crashing” your system. There is a fix for it, but you have to recompile the “xpad”-module. The following was written by the user metalcaedes in a Steam-Forum.
How to use it: In a Terminal do (the lines starting with “#” are comments and must not be executed in the shell): mkdir xpad-impr cd xpad-impr
get the latest xpad.c from the official kernel source
get the patch from Sarah Bessmer (updated by me)
wget -O sarah.patch http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=JbyxBZeM
get Makefile
wget -O Makefile http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=HRqeQZ92
for some stupid reason pastebin removes trailing newlines, add them again
echo -e “\n\n” » sarah.patch
apply Sarah’s patch
patch -p1 -i sarah.patch
build the kernel module
make
make sure it worked:
ls xpad.ko
unload the old xpad module
sudo rmmod xpad
load the new one
sudo insmod xpad.ko
The user NoXPhasma in the same forum added instructions how to make this permanent:
For automatically building this module for future kernel updates and permanent install at the curent one, follow this guide: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules#head-d313bd351f90d4f25a2143b7bbcff73f927731f0
- Create a new dkms.conf file in the folder which contains the patched xpad.c and the make file, with this content: PACKAGE_NAME=“xpad” PACKAGE_VERSION=“0.3” MAKE[0]=“make KVERSION=$kernelver” CLEAN=“make clean” DEST_MODULE_LOCATION[0]="/extra" BUILT_MODULE_NAME[0]=“xpad” AUTOINSTALL=“yes” The folder should only contain this 3 files.
- Copy the folder to /usr/src.
- execute this 3 commands as root to build and install the module: dkms add -m xpad -v 0.3 dkms build -m xpad -v 0.3 dkms install -m xpad -v 0.3 Now this module is installed and will be build on each kernel update automatically.
I’ve tried it, and it worked for me. No more crashing in UE-games!