I recently got a wired (USB) XBox 360 gamepad. It was nearly plug-and-play on my laptop running Ubuntu 12.04. However, some control axes were mixed up. I used jstest-gtk to reconfigure the mapping and jscal-store to (supposedly) save the new configuration. However, when I run Xonotic or Nexuiz (First Person Shooters), they still uses the original mixed-up mapping. How do I make these games recognize the new configuration? BTW, I'm more concerned about Xonotic working, I really couldn't care less about Nexuiz.
Please no rants about why I should stick with a mouse and keyboard for gaming. [:-)
Thanks in advance.
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If your game supports generic gamepads, than its going to work with this one as well.
To calibrate your gamepad use this command:
jscal -c DEVICE
You have to replace DEVICE with the path to your device (e.g /dev/input/js0 ).
To test your device use jstest DEVICE
To realy see on which path your device is use cat /proc/bus/input/devices
e.g H: Handlers=event6 js0 = /dev/input/js0
Information provided on this answer: How do I configure a joystick or gamepad? may be useful for you, which contains information related to the jstest-gtk and the jscalibrator. Placed here for your convenience:
Not tested by me, but found in a link provided at: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=393425, I hope this may help.
Install joystick
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install joystickthen install jscalibrator
sudo apt-get install jscalibratorthen run the calibration processes
jscal -c /dev/input/js0(this is my joystick location check yours)
jstest /dev/input/js0(or wherever) If I remember correctly, this should return 0 for no error.run jscalibrator
jscalibratorand it should recognize the type of gamepad correctly and recognize all of your buttons, and axis
There is also an application called jstest-gtk, which seems to do something like that, I post here a screenshot and the link for you: https://github.com/Grumbel/jstest-gtk (This software may need to be compiled in order to make it work)
I hope this help you.
Good luck!
Best Answer
The problem is that jstest-gtk only changes the mapping of the joystick device, i.e.
/dev/input/js0. Most modern games that use SDL however do no longer use the joystick device, but use the raw evdev instead, i.e. /dev/input/eventX and that doesn't allow any remapping.The quickest workaround is setting an environment variable:
This will force SDL based applications to use the old joystick device and thus respect the mapping. It won't help with non-SDL applications.
Another alternative is xboxdrv, it's a userspace Xbox360 driver that allows a wide variety of configuration options at the driver level (including keyboard andd mouse emulation). This will work for all games.