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

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Saturday 13 March 2010 13:21:10 Paul B Mahol wrote:
> 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.
> 

Also look here:

http://wiki.freebsd.org/uhidd

--HPS