X-Box Controller using the xpad

the_enigma · Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 4:15 am Post subject:

Are you using joymouse?
I've got

darklegion · Guru Joined: 14 Nov 2004 Posts: 468

I just recently hacked a usb plug onto an xbox controller extension cable,which works fine since I can plug in my external usb hub(which I hacked in to a xbox plug) and it clearly works since I can plug in my usb mouse into the external hub and it works fine.However when I plug my (large first model)xbox controller in,I get an error message:

darklegion · Guru Joined: 14 Nov 2004 Posts: 468

OK I just tried soldering it directly to bypass possible issues with the inline connector and I still get the same message.Which seems to tell me there is something wrong with my system since the controller works fine on my xbox.Also at the moment I am getting a heap of these messages in my logs:

the_enigma · Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 12:13 am Post subject:

Apparently this can be caused by some sort of IRQ routing issues. I'm no expert, but it may be worth trying to boot your kernel with either 'noapic=yes'. See http://seclists.org/linux-kernel/2001/Feb/1841.html
for some information that I uncovered.
Just out of curiousity, does the regular USB hub work on your PC? Because it seems your USB is dying before it detects the USB hub which is actually present in the controller. When plugging mine in, I see

darklegion · Guru Joined: 14 Nov 2004 Posts: 468

Well just tried on a windows box,and it didn't pick up.Also tried on my box with a 2.4 kernel and does not pick up there either.So the way I see it it could be one of there things:
1. The large controllers don't work - I can't test a S controller either because my mate decided he would "borrow" it for a while
2. My cable is bad - I resoldered the damn thing several times through an extension and then directly and my soldering skill is proficient enough,since I have done far mre difficult jobs then this in the past.
3.Both of the machines have mobo/usb problems - its possible although unlikely,since they use completely different usb chipsets.Mine is a nforce2 the other is a via board,so both uhci and ohci are being tested here.

Well here is my /proc/interrupts in case it will help:

the_enigma · Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 5:39 am Post subject:

AFAIK, the large controllers should work just as well.
I'd be guessing that the cable might be bad, can you check it with a multimeter or something?

_mikec_ · Guru Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 386

i hooked my xpad yesterday, in kde control center/Peripherals/Joystick i have X-box pad (/dev/js1) and the controller is working perfectly, but i cannot use it with any games, what games support xpad? supertux is not supporting xpad i guess cause i cant use it in game.

i have another joystick on /dev/js0.

edit: btw if anyone here knows how to play quake3arena with the xpad please LET me know!
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the_enigma · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 11:09 pm Post subject:

Well if it shows up as /dev/js1, then I'm guessing the drivers working just fine.
It could be because the games you've tried only support the first joystick maybe, but I'm not sure.
All I ues my XBox controller for is emulators. Works fine on zsnes and mupen64 so far.

_mikec_ · Guru Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 386

i've never played with a emulator b4, can you specify how i can install one with at least mario 3?

thanks
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the_enigma · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 2:42 am Post subject:

Well, most emulators are in portage, so just search for them

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ok
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darklegion · Guru Joined: 14 Nov 2004 Posts: 468

the_enigma,your patch does not work correctly on 2.6.12-rc1(and perhaps earlier) because of the new mouse-emulation patch.The driver will load and work correctly but you won't be able to set options because I am guessing it is handled by xpad-core.c now(I'm no kernel programmer,so just a guess).If anyone else wants to use it now you'll need to comment out "xpad-objs := xpad-core.o" in drivers/usb/input/Makefile.I also copied in an older xpad.c from an older kernel which is most likely necessary also.After that you can patch it as normal,and it should work all work properly.

the_enigma · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 5:31 am Post subject:

Well I've got them running on 2.6.11-rc4, but I'll have a look tonight, thanks for the heads-up.
I didn't notice any changes on the changelog however.
You did try with a vanilla kernel, right?

Edit: Didn't see you had that mouse emulation patch, sorry. Got a link for that?

darklegion · Guru Joined: 14 Nov 2004 Posts: 468

Actually I assumed it was in vanilla but it actually only seems to be in the love patchset ( and perhaps mm)

fimblo · Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 10:33 pm Post subject:

Summary: I cant get joymouse to work with the xbox dvd connector.

Hiya- just got an xbox dvd remote controller today, and fixed it so that it has a normal USB connector (soldered it, tested it on a friends windows machine, it works fine)

My ultimate goal is to get it to do several things-
1) I want the play/pause/fwd/rev buttons to control xmms, and
2) the big arrow buttons to control the mouse.

But to begin with I was thinking of just fixing the control so that it works like a normal mouse.

My kernel: 2.6.9-gentoo-r13
I've compiled the joydev, evdev and xpad modules and modprobed them.
I can cat /dev/js0 and I see garbage fly by when I push the remote control buttons.
When I run joymouse, I get

the_enigma · Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 11:49 pm Post subject:

I think you've touched upon the issue here. The issue is that joymouse expects x/y axis movement, and translates these into movement of the mouse. There 'might' be some way of changing joymouse to use button events as small x/y axis movements, I'm not sure. Either that, or changing the actual kernel module again, and completely remapping button and axis changes. If I had a remote, I could probably do something, but I don't, unfortunately. Joy2key might be a solution to your xmms issues, but I don't know. I own an actual IR remote, and a IR reciever, so I use lirc for that stuff.

fimblo · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 12:09 am Post subject:

Thanks for your quick reply!

Damn, I was hoping for a simple answer :roll:

Im gonna have to dig into this more I guess

If anyone else has any tips, I'd really appreciate it!
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Gentree · Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 11:45 am Post subject:

Well the question was asked above but never answered: where can I find jtest and jcalibrator. I just set this up on Suse and it went like a dream but I cant even get a joystick device in /etc/input/ on Gentoo.

Can someone recap the basic requirements please.

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the_enigma · Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 12:01 pm Post subject:

jstest and jscalibrator were part of some package called ff-utils. afaik, it's not in portage at all.
http://user.it.uu.se/~johannd/projects/ff/download/utils/
Go there, and there seems to be a ff-utils.tar.bz2 which contains jstest and jscal. I've no idea on how well supported they are though. If they are dodgy, I'll try to find the ones i've got on my machine, i just can't find them. And no, they aren't in my path so 'which' etc don't help.

Gentree · Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 12:28 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the reply

the_enigma · Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 8:40 pm Post subject:

Does dmesg list anything when you insert/remove the controller?

Do you have

Gentree · Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 9:02 pm Post subject:

Thanks,

I managed to grab jstest off my Suse partition.

I am actually trying to get a soundcard gameport JS to work, I just posted here since s/o has refered to jstest.

Seems that my real prob is that udev is not getting called to create the nodes , this implies a problem with the driver or the way it is configged.

What is maddening is that it took me 5mins to configure this on Suse and so far I have wasted well over a day to get nowhere on Gentoo.

:evil:

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the_enigma · Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 9:05 pm Post subject:

Aah ok. Well in that case, iirc, have you checked your sound card drivers gameport support. Usually that's where the game port drivers are. I think. Apart from that though, I can't help much, as I've never even tried to get mine working.

Gentree · Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 9:13 pm Post subject:

Yes , according to the kernel doc these cards have gameport included in the soundcard driver. Cant say I believe it.

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DaDead · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 11 Feb 2004 Posts: 75

the_enigma: heres my prob, with 10 my L&R triggers work on my xpad but d-pad dont, but with ddr mode my d-pad works but by L&R are back to axis

can i get some help here?