


For the life of me I can't get this controller to work and all of my other controllers are in storage. I have installed without the Controller Plugged in, with it plugged in, uninstalled, reinstalled, rebooted, installed some official XBOX 360 controller driver (I think), installed some Mad Catz random software. I found the ist file, ran that with the "InstallNewControllerList" automated app. I have installed the tattiebogle (0.11) and the (0.12). I am currently running a Mac OS X 10.8.5. I can now play Lego Star Wars with my girlfriend and plug/unplug the controllers without any issues.Īlright, I hate to resurrect a thread this old but I am pulling my hair out. It also took me a while to basically get the controllers to work but a 0.11 clean install seems to do the trick. Remove it from startup items (see below) Any unplug or re-plug causes kernel panic and force-reboot 360 controller is recognized and works if plugged from startup or plugged once (sometimes) TattieBogle 0.11 clean install (check other posts if you need reinstalling) 2 wired official Microsoft Xbox 360 controllers So the first thing to do is to check if it's running in your Activity Monitor. Alternatively, you can revert to a macOS version before 10.11 to avoid this issue.ĭepending on how old your version of macOS is, this might work for you.This solution is for those of you who have the force-reboot problem when plugging/unplugging the wired controllers.Īs any forced reboot it's caused by a kernel panic, which in this case is itself caused by some interference between the 360 driver and the Android File Transfer agent/daemon. If you want to use a wireless controller, download 0.16.15 or earlier and disable the driver before the computer enters a "sleep" state in order to prevent kernel panics. Due to an excess of caution, we have disabled Wireless Xbox 360 controller support as of 0.16.6.

This issue cannot be resolved with minor changes to the driver, and requires that the driver be re-written from scratch to resolve the issue. Even tons of original Xbox controllers, if you can figure out how to plug them in.īUT! There is an issue with Xbox 360 wireless controller support on newer versions of OS X:Īs of macOS 10.11, Wireless Xbox 360 controller support causes kernel panics. It works with tons of unofficial 360 controllers. It works with the official Microsoft 360 wireless receiver. The absolute best way to use any sort of Xbox controller on Mac is to install the 360Controller unofficial open source driver:
