I configured my joysticks in the xorg.conf file and everything worked when it comes to the joysticks themselves, but my mouse stopped working correctly whenever I booted my machine without a joystick attached. On my desktop that's fine, but on my laptop I'm not always going to attach my joystick.
unebaguettesvp wrote: > 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. > > -- Joystick detected as mouse, crashes X https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/274203 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
