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PostPosted: Wed Dec 26, 2012 5:28 pm    Post subject: Joystick not detected in games Reply with quote

Hello,

Santa gave an Saitek ST90 USB Stick to kids :D

It seems it is working because when plugged, in can see in system's log :
Quote:
Dec 26 18:18:49 dual kernel: [14764.615242] usb 8-1: new low-speed USB device number 5 using uhci_hcd
Dec 26 18:18:49 dual kernel: [14764.808190] input: Saitek ST90 USB Stick as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb8/8-1/8-1:1.0/input/input11
Dec 26 18:18:49 dual kernel: [14764.808365] hid-generic 0003:06A3:0422.0005: input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.00 Joystick [Saitek ST90 USB Stick] on usb-0000:00:1d.2-1/input0


And I can move the mice cursor using it.

The problem is this joystick is not detected in SuperTuxKart (joystick not proposed) or in ExtremeTuxRacer (even checked, no action from joystick).

Any tips ?

Thanks

Laurent
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 27, 2012 10:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Do you have joystick support in your kernel? If so, do you see any /dev/input/js* devices?

Is it possible that the device is not supported on Linux (yet)?
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 28, 2012 5:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

lxg wrote:
Do you have joystick support in your kernel?

I have
Code:
CONFIG_INPUT_JOYSTICK=y

All the others are unset.

lxg wrote:
If so, do you see any /dev/input/js* devices?

No :?

lxg wrote:
Is it possible that the device is not supported on Linux (yet)?


I think it is, as the system's log, and as I can move the pointer with it.

I'm continuing to search ...
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 1:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It looks like your device was detected as a mouse, try evtest and see if there is something looks like your joystick and the properities of it looks similar to your mouse.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 7:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My gamepad works fine and i have no /dev/input/js* devices. They are all listed as /dev/input/event* devices.

destroyedlolo, is your user a member of the usb group? When you run those games as root does the gamepad work?
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 3:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sorry for this late reply (busy by kids :D and I have to build a new PC :cry: )

hephooey wrote:
It looks like your device was detected as a mouse, try evtest and see if there is something looks like your joystick and the properities of it looks similar to your mouse.


I'm not sure how to read the output but the result looks similar.
Code:
dual laurent # evtest
No device specified, trying to scan all of /dev/input/event*
Available devices:
/dev/input/event0:   Sleep Button
/dev/input/event1:   Lid Switch
/dev/input/event2:   Power Button
/dev/input/event3:   Video Bus
/dev/input/event4:   AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
/dev/input/event5:   SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad
/dev/input/event6:   Logitech USB Optical Mouse
/dev/input/event7:   PS/2 Generic Mouse
/dev/input/event8:   Saitek ST90 USB Stick
Select the device event number [0-8]: 8
Input driver version is 1.0.1
Input device ID: bus 0x3 vendor 0x6a3 product 0x422 version 0x100
Input device name: "Saitek ST90 USB Stick"
Supported events:
  Event type 0 (EV_SYN)
  Event type 1 (EV_KEY)
    Event code 288 (BTN_TRIGGER)
    Event code 289 (BTN_THUMB)
    Event code 290 (BTN_THUMB2)
  Event type 3 (EV_ABS)
    Event code 0 (ABS_X)
      Value    655
      Min        0
      Max     1023
      Fuzz       3
      Flat      63
    Event code 1 (ABS_Y)
      Value    907
      Min        0
      Max     1023
      Fuzz       3
      Flat      63
    Event code 2 (ABS_Z)
      Value    255
      Min        0
      Max      255
      Flat      15
  Event type 4 (EV_MSC)
    Event code 4 (MSC_SCAN)
Testing ... (interrupt to exit)
Event: time 1357572678.373149, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 0 (ABS_X), value 654
Event: time 1357572678.373166, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------

dual laurent # evtest
No device specified, trying to scan all of /dev/input/event*
Available devices:
/dev/input/event0:   Sleep Button
/dev/input/event1:   Lid Switch
/dev/input/event2:   Power Button
/dev/input/event3:   Video Bus
/dev/input/event4:   AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
/dev/input/event5:   SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad
/dev/input/event6:   Logitech USB Optical Mouse
/dev/input/event7:   PS/2 Generic Mouse
Select the device event number [0-7]: 6
Input driver version is 1.0.1
Input device ID: bus 0x3 vendor 0x46d product 0xc018 version 0x111
Input device name: "Logitech USB Optical Mouse"
Supported events:
  Event type 0 (EV_SYN)
  Event type 1 (EV_KEY)
    Event code 272 (BTN_LEFT)
    Event code 273 (BTN_RIGHT)
    Event code 274 (BTN_MIDDLE)
  Event type 2 (EV_REL)
    Event code 0 (REL_X)
    Event code 1 (REL_Y)
    Event code 8 (REL_WHEEL)
  Event type 4 (EV_MSC)
    Event code 4 (MSC_SCAN)
Testing ... (interrupt to exit)
Event: time 1357572920.850067, type 2 (EV_REL), code 0 (REL_X), value -1
Event: time 1357572920.850076, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------


In addition, I can control the mouse cursor with this joystick ... But how can I tell I need it only as a joystick ?

na641 wrote:
My gamepad works fine and i have no /dev/input/js* devices. They are all listed as /dev/input/event* devices.

destroyedlolo, is your user a member of the usb group?


Yes
Code:
id laurent
uid=1000(laurent) gid=1000(laurent) groupes=1000(laurent),10(wheel),18(audio),19(cdrom),27(video),85(usb),100(users),250(portage),16(cron),35(games)


na641 wrote:
When you run those games as root does the gamepad work?

Same result :(


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PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 2:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Do you have
Code:
INPUT_DEVICES="joystick"
in your make.conf because since I added that I haven't had any problems with games recognizing my joystick.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 10:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You're right, I have only
Code:
INPUT_DEVICES="evdev"

but I understood it's right as evdev manages HID by itself. Am I wrong ?
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 12, 2013 12:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You are right in that evdev does manage HID devices by itself. I put in my make.conf
Code:
INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics joystick"
because I was having problems getting my joystick to work as a joystick instead of it being registered as a mouse. I'm not sure if this is the correct way to get it to work but it helped me. Maybe someone with more knowledge than me can help explain this because I'll be the first to admit that I don't really know all that much about gentoo after being away for about 5 years lol.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 12, 2013 7:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ok let's try.
At least it causes rebuild of Xorg and addition of x11-drivers/xf86-input-joystick and have a dependance on xf86driproto.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 6:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If that doesn't help you, you can always see if the games that you are trying to get the joystick to work with have a joystick USE flag that you can enable.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 10:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, I rebuilt my system with "joystick" included in both INPUT_DEVICES and USE ... but the result is the same :(
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 6:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

destroyedlolo wrote:

I'm not sure how to read the output but the result looks similar.
Code:
dual laurent # evtest
No device specified, trying to scan all of /dev/input/event*
Available devices:
/dev/input/event0:   Sleep Button
/dev/input/event1:   Lid Switch
/dev/input/event2:   Power Button
/dev/input/event3:   Video Bus
/dev/input/event4:   AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
/dev/input/event5:   SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad
/dev/input/event6:   Logitech USB Optical Mouse
/dev/input/event7:   PS/2 Generic Mouse
/dev/input/event8:   Saitek ST90 USB Stick
Select the device event number [0-8]: 8
Input driver version is 1.0.1
Input device ID: bus 0x3 vendor 0x6a3 product 0x422 version 0x100
Input device name: "Saitek ST90 USB Stick"
Supported events:
  Event type 0 (EV_SYN)
  Event type 1 (EV_KEY)
    Event code 288 (BTN_TRIGGER)
    Event code 289 (BTN_THUMB)
    Event code 290 (BTN_THUMB2)
  Event type 3 (EV_ABS)
    Event code 0 (ABS_X)
      Value    655
      Min        0
      Max     1023
      Fuzz       3
      Flat      63
    Event code 1 (ABS_Y)
      Value    907
      Min        0
      Max     1023
      Fuzz       3
      Flat      63
    Event code 2 (ABS_Z)
      Value    255
      Min        0
      Max      255
      Flat      15
  Event type 4 (EV_MSC)
    Event code 4 (MSC_SCAN)
Testing ... (interrupt to exit)
Event: time 1357572678.373149, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 0 (ABS_X), value 654
Event: time 1357572678.373166, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------



I can only say it is rather peculiar this device does not generate a jsX device under /dev/input, according to the joydev.c from kernel (3.6.11 is the one I am currently using):

Code:

static const struct input_device_id joydev_ids[] = {
        {
                .flags = INPUT_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_EVBIT |
                                INPUT_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_ABSBIT,
                .evbit = { BIT_MASK(EV_ABS) },
                .absbit = { BIT_MASK(ABS_X) },
        },
        {
                .flags = INPUT_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_EVBIT |
                                INPUT_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_ABSBIT,
                .evbit = { BIT_MASK(EV_ABS) },
                .absbit = { BIT_MASK(ABS_WHEEL) },
        },
        {
                .flags = INPUT_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_EVBIT |
                                INPUT_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_ABSBIT,
                .evbit = { BIT_MASK(EV_ABS) },
                .absbit = { BIT_MASK(ABS_THROTTLE) },
        },
        {
                .flags = INPUT_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_EVBIT |
                                INPUT_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_KEYBIT,
                .evbit = { BIT_MASK(EV_KEY) },
                .keybit = {[BIT_WORD(BTN_JOYSTICK)] = BIT_MASK(BTN_JOYSTICK) },
        },
        {
                .flags = INPUT_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_EVBIT |
                                INPUT_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_KEYBIT,
                .evbit = { BIT_MASK(EV_KEY) },
                .keybit = { [BIT_WORD(BTN_GAMEPAD)] = BIT_MASK(BTN_GAMEPAD) },
        },
        {
                .flags = INPUT_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_EVBIT |
                                INPUT_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_KEYBIT,
                .evbit = { BIT_MASK(EV_KEY) },
                .keybit = { [BIT_WORD(BTN_TRIGGER_HAPPY)] = BIT_MASK(BTN_TRIGGER_HAPPY) },
        },
        { }     /* Terminating entry */
};


The first condition basically means as long as your device support ABS_X (there are of course some trivial condition in joydev_match() to exclude touchpads) the kernel will register it to an joystick device. I guess you can try to unload other modules like mouse.ko to make sure the problem is in the joystick detection part. If it is still not solved I guess depends on how strong is your motivation, you might want to add some debug code to the kernel to figure out why, it is going to be pretty straightforward but quite tedius. Also since your event8 looks healthy enough for a joystick, some newer version of your game might just use the evdev interface, as long as the permission allows (on my computer it seems all the eventX devices can only be read by root by default).

BTW, event7 the so called "PS2 generic mouse" sounds fishy, I doubt you use a logitech mouse, a touchpad and a ps2 mouse at the same time, you might want to figure out why it is there, it could be related to your trouble with joystick.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 8:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll do some test.
Is it possible to load/unload kernel module on the fly or does it need a reboot every time ?
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 10:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

try
Code:
mknod /dev/input/js0 c 13 0
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 10:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

krinn wrote:
try
Code:
mknod /dev/input/js0 c 13 0

Thanks Krinn, it's working :)

The only (minor) problem is this stick is recognized as both a Joystick and a mouse, so I have to unplug it when I leave the game otherwise the point become crazy.
I think it is also attached as "input0". Any way to backlist it or to make X ignore it ?
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 12:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I spent some time to remove Joystick and mouse interaction.

I tried to create a configuration file as per http://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.5/doc/man/man4/joystick.4.html :

Code:
Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier "Saitek ST90 USB Stick"
   Driver "joystick"
   Option "Device" "/dev/input/event8"
   Option "StartMouseEnabled" "disabled"
EndSection


but it didn't changed anything.
Xorg.0.log contains
Code:
[  8625.031] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Saitek ST90 USB Stick (/dev/input/event8)
[  8625.031] (**) Saitek ST90 USB Stick: Applying InputClass "keyboard-all"
[  8625.031] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Saitek ST90 USB Stick'
[  8625.032] (**) Saitek ST90 USB Stick: always reports core events
[  8625.032] (**) evdev: Saitek ST90 USB Stick: Device: "/dev/input/event8"
[  8625.032] (--) evdev: Saitek ST90 USB Stick: Vendor 0x6a3 Product 0x422
[  8625.032] (--) evdev: Saitek ST90 USB Stick: Found absolute axes
[  8625.032] (--) evdev: Saitek ST90 USB Stick: Found x and y absolute axes
[  8625.032] (II) evdev: Saitek ST90 USB Stick: Forcing relative x/y axes to exist.
[  8625.032] (II) evdev: Saitek ST90 USB Stick: Configuring as mouse
[  8625.032] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.0/input/input11/event8"
[  8625.032] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Saitek ST90 USB Stick" (type: MOUSE, id 14)
[  8625.032] (II) evdev: Saitek ST90 USB Stick: initialized for absolute axes.
[  8625.032] (**) Saitek ST90 USB Stick: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
[  8625.032] (**) Saitek ST90 USB Stick: (accel) acceleration profile 0
[  8625.032] (**) Saitek ST90 USB Stick: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000
[  8625.032] (**) Saitek ST90 USB Stick: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4
[  8625.035] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Saitek ST90 USB Stick (/dev/input/js0)
[  8625.035] (**) Saitek ST90 USB Stick: Applying InputClass "keyboard-all"
[  8625.035] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Saitek ST90 USB Stick'
[  8625.035] (**) Saitek ST90 USB Stick: always reports core events
[  8625.035] (**) evdev: Saitek ST90 USB Stick: Device: "/dev/input/js0"
[  8625.035] (EE) Saitek ST90 USB Stick: Couldn't open mtdev device
[  8625.096] (EE) evdev: Saitek ST90 USB Stick: ioctl EVIOCGID failed: Bad file descriptor
[  8625.096] (EE) PreInit returned 8 for "Saitek ST90 USB Stick"


I tried also to change the device to /dev/input/js0 again w/o changes.

Any clue ?
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