Comments on: Programming joysticks with linux, part 2

By: Gen2ly

Gen2ly — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:14:36 +0000

That’s perfect scaryreasoner. Appreciate the help.

By: scaryreasoner

scaryreasoner — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:46:16 +0000

No, I’m not an xpad developer. Looking in the MAINTAINERS file of the linux source, I see this:

INPUT (KEYBOARD, MOUSE, JOYSTICK, TOUCHSCREEN) DRIVERS
P: Dmitry Torokhov
M: dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com
M: dtor@mail.ru
L: linux-input@vger.kernel.org
T: git kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input.git
S: Maintained

The mailing list archive is here:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-input/

Hope that helps.

By: Gen2ly

Gen2ly — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:16:08 +0000

Don’t know either. Looks like it does have to do with the QW and and the driver. Are you an xpad developer? If not, do you know the xpad mailing list I’d like to write this up and see if this is an incomptibility issue between the ms and linux driver.

By: scaryreasoner

scaryreasoner — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:45:48 +0000

I don’t know, sounds like a problem with Quake World. From what I can tell all the buttons and axes work from the point of view of the xpad driver, and from user land programs accessing it via /dev/input/jsX and /dev/input/eventY (where X and Y are whatever numbers are the right ones for your system.)

I think there was another x-box 360 user space driver floating around before the xpad driver got into the kernel, maybe QW is programmed to work with that driver. But, I really don’t know.

By: Gen2ly

Gen2ly — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:31:01 +0000

Good articles. Been trying to get my xbox controller to work in Linux on Quake Wars. So far can’t quite get it done. QW uses SDL too but I’m wondering if xpad if missing something or possible the SDL for Linux. I’ve been able to map everything on the xbox controler except left-trigger, right-trigger, and the D-PAD. Quake Wars seems to be looking for buttons and not axises. This is part of the QW config that works in Windows:

bind “joy1_LEFT_TRIGGER” “_movedown”
bind “joy1_RIGHT_TRIGGER” “_attack”
bind “joy1_DPAD_LEFT” “_leanleft”
bind “joy1_DPAD_RIGHT” “_leanright”
bind “joy1_DPAD_UP” “_usevehicle” “” “default”
bind “joy1_DPAD_DOWN” “_usevehicle” “” “vehicle”

Is there any way to do this?