[mythtv-users] Joystick usage with mythtv & PC games

Jesse Guardiani jesse at wingnet.net
Wed Feb 15 15:47:01 UTC 2006


Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> See attached for mine. Note that it's for an xpad driver based on 
> version 0.1.5. It probably won't work with the xpad.c
> that ships with the kernel because that version of xpad.c is very very 
> old. And it probably won't work with
> the xpad.c from the xbox-linux site because I use a few custom patches 
> to make the L/R triggers show up
> as real buttons not just axis, so you'll probably have to tweak it a 
> bit. (especially the devicename)
>
> I use libjsw's jscalibrator program to glean the button and axis 
> numbers. Check here for the version
> of xpad.c that I'm talking about:
>    
> http://cvs.xbox-linux.org/viewcvs.py/xbox-linux/kernel-2.6/drivers/usb/input/xpad.c?rev=1.22&view=log 
>
>
> Actually, it's open source, so I'll just attach the version of xpad.c 
> that I use. Just save the attached
> xpad.c and Makefile to a dir on your machine and type 'make'. Then 
> overwrite the "live" version
> of your xpad.ko with the version you just made. (use `locate xpad.ko` 
> to find the "live" version. Should
> be somewhere in /lib/modules) Then either reboot or `rmmod xpad && 
> modprobe xpad`.

No, sorry, I got confused and sent the wrong version. See attached for 
the real version with the button changes.
It's against the latest 0.1.6. And I've submitted the patch to the 
xbox-linux folks.

-- 
Jesse Guardiani
Programmer/Sys Admin
jesse at wingnet.net

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