So, I've made some progress but I still can't play ANY games. Literally.
NONE.
I've edited my xorg.conf file to look like this (I've omitted things
that don't pertain to the input devices):
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen" 0 0
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "Configured Joystick"
InputDevice "Configured Joystick 2"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AutoAddDevices" "False"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Joystick"
Driver "joystick"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/event5"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "False"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Joystick 2"
Driver "joystick"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/event4"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "False"
EndSection
My problem was setting the correct Device for each joystick. Now, the
joysticks (yes, I have 2, unplugging one doesn't fix the other) do not
move, left click, or right click the cursor. jscalibrator reports all
buttons working perfectly. But when I try to configure the buttons in
various emulators and MAME, the buttons work but the directional pads do
not do anything.
I tried fooling around with the Option "MapAxis#" for each joystick and
that did nothing at all. I even tried doing:
Option "MapAxis1" "mode=none"
Option "MapAxis2" "mode=none"
Option "MapAxis3" "mode=none"
Option "MapAxis4" "mode=none"
Option "MapAxis5" "mode=none"
Option "MapAxis6" "mode=none"
thinking that all directional pads would be disabled. But they weren't.
I changed the modes around too and nothing worked.
I have two Logitech Cordless RumblePad 2 controllers. They are very
similar to a PS2 controller.
For those of you that have configured your joysticks through your
xorg.conf file, do your directional pads work in games? Did you have to
do anything else to get them working?
I've been using joysticks in Ubuntu since Edgy and I've never had a
problem with them. All I needed to do was to just plug them into a USB
port. I'm seriously considering downgrading.
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Joystick detected as mouse, crashes X
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/274203
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