Re: [Trisquel-users] Free software friendly (Wireless) Gamepads

[vitacell]

Xbox360(wired and wireless) and XboxOne(wired with minimum 3.19 kernel)  
gamepads work without blobs. I have wireless adapter for XboxOne gamepad, but  
doesn't work at this moment. I must to try it with more time.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free software friendly (Wireless) Gamepads

[taknamay]

Antimicro maps gamepads to keys and is cross-platform.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free software friendly (Wireless) Gamepads

[matt . ivie]

I have a logitech f310 that works perfectly under trisquel. I think it is  
seen as an xbox gamepad. I am able to calibrate all the analog inputs also.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free software friendly (Wireless) Gamepads

[onpon4]

That sounds about right to me. I know Wiimotes work just fine with Linux, for  
example. I don't think proprietary firmware blobs for input devices even  
exist. Either it's a standard input device, or it's something that requires a  
special (proprietary) driver entirely, and the former is much more common.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free software friendly (Wireless) Gamepads

[danigaritarojas]

So, literally ALL I need is a gamepad "class 03h - Human Interface Device"  
and a free-software-friendly Bluetooth dongle?


Can I safely assume that if a wireless gamepad works on some GNU/Linux distro  
and/or Mac OS X, it's a device class 03h? Or there are more reliable ways of  
knowing this?


Pardon my disbelief but that's way more optimistic than what I originally  
thought. I was expecting that from all the gamepads available in the market,  
only a reduced number of them would work on Trisquel (like with Bluetooth and  
Wi-Fi dongles). I just don't want to buy something that will require non-free  
blobs and I will be in a temptation to install them in order to not lose the  
money invested in the device.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free software friendly (Wireless) Gamepads

[jason]

Anything that identifies itself as device class 03h - Human Interface Device.

See, for example,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_human_interface_device_class
"Modern game controllers and joysticks are often USB HID class devices..."

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free software friendly (Wireless) Gamepads

[onpon4]

> Software that comes along the gamepad to caliber it and map the buttons to  
keys (of the keyboard) may be Windows/Mac only. However, several packages in  
Trisquel's repository promise those features. "jstest-gtk" looks like the  
most user-friendly option.


I don't think jstest does this. The best option for mapping joystick input to  
keyboard that I'm aware of is QJoypad.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free software friendly (Wireless) Gamepads

[tegskywalker]

I use steamos-xpad-dkms from  
https://launchpad.net/~mdeslaur/+archive/ubuntu/steamos because it uses the  
latest xpad driver from SteamOS. The latest version has support for the wired  
Xbox One Elite in addition to wired/wireless Xbox 360 and wired Xbox One  
(original and Covert Forces) controllers.