Virtual devices have many POVs but no working buttons

[SamSam]

Gladiator EVO Left, SEM, FSM-GA.

Versions:

Elite: Dangerous. Too many buttons.

I changed the number of buttons to 32 and set VC to 2.

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The extra virtual devices each have 4 POV switches.

The third virtual device, where I want to map the FSM-GA buttons, shows 32 buttons but I cannot make any of them light up. Instead when I press buttons on the FSM-GA, the POV switches change position.

Additionally, even though the buttons on the SEM do work, the physical mapping seems to have no effect. I mapped physical buttons 41-64 to logical buttons 33-53 or so, expecting to see them as buttons 1-20 on the virtual controller, but they instead appear as buttons 9-32.

FSM-GA physical buttons are 65 onwards which seems convenient when I want to map them to buttons 65 onwards so they appear on the third controller, but they manipulate the POV switches and do not appear as buttons.

[fallout9]

Try again without reassigning any buttons. Reset to Default, make sure you're pressing Yes at configuration popup, then set the VC to 2 and press Set. You don't necessarily have to assign each device to its own Virtual Controller; just let the software bundle them, as they don't make any sense in E:D anyway.

[SamSam]

I forgot to say this happens without mapping any buttons. Click Default, click "yes" on configure popup, calibrate, wiggle sticks, end calibrate, then in Global/common set 32 buttons and 2 VC, click set. 4 POVs on each VC, FSM-GA buttons manipulate POVs.

Same behaviour if I skip calibration and stick wiggling.

[fallout9]

Can you post screenshots of Profile/Buttons/Physical Layer and Profile/Buttons/Logical Layer when VC=2?

[SamSam]

This is after clicking Default and "yes" on configure popup and setting VC to 2. No other changes.

This configuration (or something very similar, it's been a while) used to work with this hardware. I recently updated the firmware and the vkbdevcfg utility and that's when I noticed this. I haven't made any hardware changes.

[fallout9]

And another one, of the POV panel, please.

[SamSam]

[fallout9]

Looks like a bug which activates from the third VC, I'll report it. Until it gets fixed you could run with only 2VCs, it's perfectly safe for E:D.