Ubuntu – How to use a gamepad

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 joystick

then install jscalibrator

sudo apt-get install jscalibrator

then 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

jscalibrator

and 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!