Add xpadneo-dkms profile for Xbox Series X/S Bluetooth controllers

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
78/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
linux, rust
Domain
operating-systems, tooling

Research direction

Locate the existing fprint profile and the chwd USB profile definitions it follows. Use the Xbox Series X/S vendor 045e and product 0b13 identifiers, then verify that the profile installs xpadneo-dkms and creates the expected joystick device for Bluetooth controllers.

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Description

Xbox Series X/S controllers paired via Bluetooth appear in bluetoothctl devices
but never create a /dev/input/js* device — Steam and browsers see nothing,
no error shown. The in-tree xpad driver doesn't handle Xbox Series X/S over
Bluetooth; xpadneo-dkms (already in CachyOS repos) fixes it.

A chwd USB profile detecting vendor 045e / product 0b13 and installing
xpadneo-dkms would give users the same "just works" experience as GPU drivers,
following the existing fprint profile pattern.

Tested on CachyOS 7.0.3-1-cachyos with xpadneo-dkms 0.10.2-1.

Dominant language
Rust
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Forks
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Avg merge
6d 15h
Merged PRs (30d)
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