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    How do I get my gamepad to work?

    My gamepad, and I have gotten two of them now, inspite of calibrations done from the control center, and after having installed and ran{executed} jscalibrator, joystick, libjsw, etc, the gamepads do not work. One is a Saitek p880 and the other is some USB gamepad; In the control center, the devices are recognized per their models accurately, it calls the as /dev/js0 and /dev/js1. I saw that I also had /dev/input/js1 up to /dev/input/js4.

    How do I get my gamepad to work? I have done calibration from both control center and by running the jscalibrator executable. It says calibration completed. All I did was click a button whenever a prompt came up. I did not actually do any axis movements or moving of the analog D-pads, etc.
    Even tuxracer does not work, nor does anything else get controlled by the gamepad. Any ideas?

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    Re: How do I get my gamepad to work?

    I have Sega Megadrive-like usb gampad and it worked "out-of-the-box", no installation were required.

    In which games are you trying to use your gamepad?

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    Re: How do I get my gamepad to work?

    I have a Nyko Air Flo EX and it worked out of the box, no config necessary. I use it for zsnes and a few other games with no hitches.

    I play planet penguin racer with it just fine, i haven't tried the classic tuxracer though, so maybe its just a problem with that specific game?
    Last edited by dcarpenter; October 13th, 2005 at 05:16 PM.

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    Re: How do I get my gamepad to work?

    Quote Originally Posted by kazuya
    My gamepad, and I have gotten two of them now, inspite of calibrations done from the control center, and after having installed and ran{executed} jscalibrator, joystick, libjsw, etc, the gamepads do not work. One is a Saitek p880 and the other is some USB gamepad; In the control center, the devices are recognized per their models accurately, it calls the as /dev/js0 and /dev/js1. I saw that I also had /dev/input/js1 up to /dev/input/js4.

    How do I get my gamepad to work? I have done calibration from both control center and by running the jscalibrator executable. It says calibration completed. All I did was click a button whenever a prompt came up. I did not actually do any axis movements or moving of the analog D-pads, etc.
    Even tuxracer does not work, nor does anything else get controlled by the gamepad. Any ideas?
    I used to have a p880, and I had success with it, but after a while it just died on me. Now of course I have the Logitech Rumblepad and it works like a charm, out of the box, no conf nessecary.

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    Wink Re: How do I get my gamepad to work?

    my gravis gamepad is working like a charm also , just after loading required modules :

    sudo modprobe joydev
    sudo modprobe emu10k1-gp
    sudo modprobe analog
    sudo modprobe grip

    some time after reboot i've to re create the dev stuff :

    sudo rm -f /dev/input/js0
    sudo rm -f /dev/js0
    sudo mknod /dev/input/js0 c 13 0
    sudo ln -s /dev/input/js0 /dev/js0


    Anyway it's ok after that !

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    Re: How do I get my gamepad to work?

    Dunno if this helps but my system completely ignores jscalibrator, i have to use jscal in a terminal for it to work. Shame cos jscalibrator has configurable deadzone settings and jscal doesnt seem to have them.

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    Re: How do I get my gamepad to work?

    awesome tips guys. I would try that out. so saitek p880, is not durable?
    I guess I have to return this thing then.

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    Re: How do I get my gamepad to work?

    I had gotten that pad to work alright in breezy, now i'm in dapper and there's no worky.

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