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

[Paul B Mahol]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Alexander Best <alexbestms at wwu.de> wrote:
> Hans Petter Selasky schrieb am 2010-03-13:
>> 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
>
> thanks for the hint. i'm about to try it out. however i'm having difficulties
> recompiling my kernel without ukbd (which is required for using uhidd):

You can build all usb stuff as module. It only eats little more disk space ...