Xbox dancemat (xpad) and pydance!

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febs · Post by **febs** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 6:34 am

Hi all. I have a dancepad for xbox that is very nice (www.dancemat.com). I'd like to use it with the PC, too, since it's not difficult to adapt the cable, shaping it's end in a normal USB jack.
I already did that with the regular xbox controller, but there is still no way to make it work with Linux, and so I don't want to mess with the dancemat until the regular joypad don't work.
BTW, the cable is good, since if i plug it into a USB-to-XBOX adaptor I made, it works great with the xbox itself.
The joypad is recognized by pydance (1 controller found!) but it does not work in game (the directional pad does nothing!).
Have someone seen and solved this?
Thank you very much you all

Febs

Bot24 · Post by **Bot24** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 8:42 am

You might need to mess with the bindings first. I setup a modified xpad driver so that the axis reports as buttons(you need this) and then had to set the bindings in StepMania before it would work.

febs · Post by **febs** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 8:51 am

Thanx for your reply, too bad I'm quite lost

How can I set up the modified driver? Have you perhaps a patch or a link for that? Thank you!

Bot24 · Post by **Bot24** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 9:11 am

It might be in there by now, but what I did was I copied a part of the axis code over some buttons. xpad's page say's that it is dead, and that is bad because I sent them a patch that should fix this. I don't have it anymore.
I would wory about getting something to happen before trying to mess with the driver.

febs · Post by **febs** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 9:17 am

Well, I'm using the 2.6.6 kernel that has the xpad driver built-in.
The buttons work (well, they get recognized by pydance) but the d-pad seems dead, so I cannot play. I was just taking a look at xpad.c but I'm not skilled enough to try to fix it. I will try more and more

Thank you very much!

febs · Post by **febs** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 10:58 am

oh, my, I'm lost.
I cannot find any way to have it working. Any help sincerely appreciated.

Big thanx!

febs · Post by **febs** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 9:00 am

bump.
Does anybody has some hint about doing this? Thank you very much.

Bot24 · Post by **Bot24** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 9:19 am

try changing

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/* digital pad */
	input_report_abs(dev, ABS_HAT0X, !!(data[2] & 0x08) - !!(data[2] & 0x04));
	input_report_abs(dev, ABS_HAT0Y, !!(data[2] & 0x02) - !!(data[2] & 0x01));

to

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/* digital pad */
	input_report_key(dev, BTN_THUMBL, (data[2] & 0x08) >> 3);
	input_report_key(dev, BTN_THUMBR, (data[2] & 0x04) >> 2);
	input_report_key(dev, BTN_C, (data[2] & 0x02) >> 1);
	input_report_key(dev, BTN_Z, (data[2] & 0x01));

That should work, but I might have some of the numbers out of order. As long as all the keys register it won't matter what the names are.

febs · Post by **febs** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 9:31 pm

Thank you very much for your reply: I finally had the chance to try it out. Too bad something is gone wrong in my system, 'cause when your trick failed to do the job, I restored the original sources, just to find that what worked *before* (last time I tried, some month ago) stopped working now.
So, before of it all, I have to find out what the hell is happened.
I will let you know when I'll find a way out. Thank you very much again pal.

febs · Post by **febs** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 9:48 pm

What a stupid fault if was! If Works great now! It's beautiful!
I noticed a thing while testing: joypad and dancemat give different codes to pydance while pressed. This is not an issue in anyway, since I just tune it with the dancemat codes.
I wrote just in case it can be of some interest to you.

T.y. once again.