PS5 DualSense Controller causing programs to hang and crash if connected via Bluetooth

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I recently bought a duelsense controller after seeing you can use the touch-pad as a mouse on Linux.
However, whenever i connect the controller via Bluetooth a number of programs will hang and fail to start.

Observed Programs Effected

  • Steam
  • Firefox
  • Discord
  • Pamac
    and probably more

if i run dmesg immediately after the controller is connected there doesn’t seem to be anything out of order in the log and the controller seems to be connected properly. Once i try to launch any of the listed programs dmesg also fails to run and hangs.

As alluded to, if the controller is connected via USB everything works fine.

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I’ve seen similar reports lately. Not sure what the cause is yet.

There was another post that had a very similar report, but I can’t find it now.

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Ive just done a fresh install of Manjaro Gnome 21.2.0 and the problem persists in the live version of Manjaro on the USB and in the fresh install.

I connected the controller to my laptop (Thinkpad x13 gen 1 AMD) and everything worked correctly with no issues so im thinking this might be a driver issue with my network card.

For reference the network card im using for WiFi and bluetooth is a Gigabyte WBAX200 WiFi 6 AX200 Wireless PCIe Adapter.

I might try a live copy of a different distro to see if this is something specific to manjaro.

Ive found that its mainly steam that’s causing the issue, I can launch firefox and steam now but once i try to launch steam everything hangs.

Thanks for your help anyway

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