PS3's Joystick on FreeBSD (can be possible?)

[Paul B Mahol]

On 3/13/10, Alexander Best <alexbestms at wwu.de> wrote:
> Paul B Mahol schrieb am 2010-03-13:
>> On 3/13/10, Alexander Best <alexbestms at wwu.de> wrote:
>> > i'm sorry to hijack this thread, but i've been having similar
>> > issues as
>> > Vinicius with his PS3 controller with my logitech cordless gamepad.
>> > this is
>> > the attach message:
>
>> > ugen3.3: <Logitech> at usbus3
>> > uhid0: <Logitech Logitech Cordless RumblePad 2, class 0/0, rev
>> > 1.10/2.00,
>> > addr
>> > 3> on usbus3
>
>> > the output of `usbhidctl -f /dev/uhid0 -r` is:
>
>> > Report descriptor:
>> > Collection page=Generic_Desktop usage=Game_Pad
>> > Total   input size 0 bytes
>> > Total  output size 0 bytes
>> > Total feature size 0 bytes
>
>> > if i do `hd /dev/uhid0` is see output like this when pressing
>> > buttons on the
>> > gamepad:
>
>> > 00000000  01 78 72 88 69 08 00 01  01 80 7f 7f 80 18 00 00
>> > |.xr.i...........|
>> > 00000010  01 80 7f 7f 80 08 00 00  01 80 7f 7f 80 08 00 00
>> > |................|
>> > 00000020  01 80 7f 7f 80 08 00 00  01 80 7f 7f 80 28 00 00
>> > |.............(..|
>> > 00000030  01 80 7f 7f 80 08 00 00  01 80 7f 7f 80 48 00 00
>> > |.............H..|
>> > 00000040  01 80 7f 7f 80 08 00 00  01 80 7f 7f 80 88 00 00
>> > |................|
>> > 00000050  01 80 7f 7f 80 08 00 00  01 80 7f 7f 80 08 01 00
>> > |................|
>> > 00000060  01 80 7f 7f 80 08 00 00  01 80 7f 7f 80 08 02 00
>> > |................|
>> > 00000070  01 80 7f 7f 80 08 00 00  01 80 7f 7f 80 08 04 00
>> > |................|
>> > 00000080  01 80 7f 7f 80 08 00 00  01 80 7f 7f 80 08 08 00
>> > |................|
>> > 00000090  01 80 7f 7f 80 08 00 00  01 80 7f 7f 80 08 10 00
>> > |................|
>> > 000000a0  01 80 7f 7f 80 08 00 00  01 80 7f 7f 80 08 20 00
>> > |..............
>> > .|
>> > 000000b0  01 80 7f 7f 80 08 00 00  01 80 7f 7f 80 04 00 00
>> > |................|
>> > 000000c0  01 80 7f 7f 80 08 00 00  01 80 7f 7f 80 06 00 00
>> > |................|
>> > 000000d0  01 80 7f 7f 80 08 00 00  01 80 7f 7f 80 00 00 00
>> > |................|
>> > 000000e0  01 80 7f 7f 80 08 00 00  01 80 7f 7f 80 02 00 00
>> > |................|
>
>> > the pad has 10 buttons, 1 analog stick, 2 digital sticks, a "mode"
>> > button
>> > and
>> > a "vibration" button.
>
>> There was/is ujoy in development but that is all.
>
> thanks for the hint. i mailed the developer a year or so ago due to his post
> on the freebsd-drivers@ mailinglist [1], but he told development of the ujoy
> driver had ceased. i checked the site mentioned in his post and the ujoy
> driver from back then is also no longer available.
>
> so there is no way of xorg or hal working directly with uhid devices then?

There is xf86-input-joystick, but I dunno about its usability.

> [1]
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-drivers/2008-December/000858.html
>