X-Box Controller using the xpad

AcidTripp · n00b Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Posts: 31

Well, I have an x-box controller hooked up to the usb port on my laptop.
Everything works great EXCEPT that when I press up on the left analog pad, it interprets it as moving down. When I press down, it interprets it as up.
I've looked through the driver, but I couldn't get it to work right.

Any ideas?

I'm running 2.6.0-test11.

taskara · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 6:34 am Post subject:

sounds like it needs to be inverted.

not a clue how, but maybe that word will help

AcidTripp · n00b Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Posts: 31

Heh, those were my thoughts exactly.
The only problem is *HOW* do I invert the axis...
I've looked through the xpad driver, but couldn't find any way to manually do this...

Any ideas would be VERY much appreciated

CheshireCat · Guru Joined: 25 Aug 2002 Posts: 572

Emerge libjsw, and give jscalibrator a try... that should work.

wishkah · Guru Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 441 Location: de

@AcidTripp: How did you get the controller to work??? I'm using 2.6.0 final and the xpad is a module (didn't work with =Y either). When I plug the controller in, nothing happens... zsnes doesn't find any joysticks. I have joystick and HID support in my kernel.
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CheshireCat · Guru Joined: 25 Aug 2002 Posts: 572

Do you have the joydev module loaded as well, or built in to the kernel? I believe you can load xpad without joydev, and it will appear to work but not provide any devices.

wishkah · Guru Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 441 Location: de

wishkah · Guru Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 441 Location: de

I got it working, not perfectly, but it works. I don't know what made it work, I played around in the kernel settings and suddenly it worked (might have been OHCI, which was missing)
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CheshireCat · Guru Joined: 25 Aug 2002 Posts: 572

There are two incompatible standards for USB1 controllers, sounds like yours is OHCI. You can most likely safely remove the UHCI drivers. If you don't have USB2, you can also remove the EHCI drivers.

wishkah · Guru Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 441 Location: de

Morgrog · n00b Joined: 07 Sep 2003 Posts: 32

Back to the topic of the post, I too have problems with inverted axis

JScalibrator makes the arrow go up when I push the left thumbstick down and vice versa

Anyone know how to fix this?

rockstarbrian · n00b Joined: 26 Jan 2004 Posts: 12 Location: New York

my axis is inverted also (up and down) and my dpad is not operational..... i've been looking for answers for weeks.... i'm totally lost

mensan · n00b Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 74 Location: Seattle, WA

grrrr......i have got the same thing. inverted axis. anyone? anything?

mensan · n00b Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 74 Location: Seattle, WA

well, after playing with jscalibrator, i found that even it sees the up/down axis as inverted. when doing calibration, down is up and up is down.

any help is certainly appreciated.

thanks.

bungernut · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 173

Another victum of inversion, im running 2.6.7 as of yet no fix. THis ought to be easy one would think to fix. Some games let me fix it like zsnes but most dont.
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bungernut · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 173

Sorry, internet glitch dup of above thread
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bungernut · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 173

Int glitch Dup of above above thread
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John5788 · Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 4:30 am Post subject: Re: Me too

bungernut · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 173

either buy or make a x-box controller to usb adaptor. X-box contorllers are just USB interfaces with custom plugs so its really easy to make the adaptor if you have a spare x-box dongle ans USB cable you can splice together, they are also pretty cheep online.
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John5788 · Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 4:35 am Post subject:

yeah i screwed up trying to solder a USB connector to an existing xbox controller. now im having problems with joy2key/zsnes/axis with my logitech dual analog gamepad...

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woodwizzle · Apprentice Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 225

I just made a xbox usb controller out of an S controller. I too have an inverted y axis for the left thumbstick, triggers that don't work, and a very wierldy mapped d-pad. I'm using the xpad module compiled from my 2.6.7-ck5 kernel.

I spent a good amount of time making the contoller, and now these bugs have me bummed out. I've tried jscalibrator. It's flip toggles are useless as far as I can tell. Is there a more direct way I can configure the xpad module? If not does anyone here know how soon we can expect a new version or at least a patch? =)

Thanks

the_enigma · Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 5:27 am Post subject:

I just made an mod for the S controller too, and found those issues. I've managed to fix the driver so that the L+R triggers are now buttons, and my axes (turns out both left and right were upside down for me) are now both working properly. Now just to create the .patch, and possibly submit to the kernel.

http://www.strudel-hound.com/xpad-0.6.patch
^ There's my simple patch, gimme a yell if you have troubles at enigma . at . strudel-hound.com

woodwizzle · Apprentice Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 225

You are awesome

the_enigma · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 9:22 am Post subject:

Patch seems to work cleanly against 2.6.8.1, then again I don't see how it could break anything. Seems like there's no maintainer for this either ... hmm ... might have to give it a shot myself.

flazz · Guru Joined: 22 Nov 2003 Posts: 496 Location: Florida

does anyone have the dpad working???