[Bug 250724] USB gamepads are tagged as a mouse by udev

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=250724

--- Comment #8 from Patrick McMunn <doctorwhoguy at gmail.com> ---
I've been tinkering with things a bit to try to provide more information. I did
notice that I had some tiny modicum of success when I used an Xbox 360
controller with webcamd. Xorg.0.log shows

[    60.941] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Microsoft X-Box 360 pad
(/dev/input/event6)
[    60.941] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    60.941] (II) This device may have been added with another device file.

which is consistent with what I see in Xorg.0.log under Linux. Maybe it's
because the Xbox 360 controller has a FreeBSD kernel driver? But I'm not sure
why that should make a difference. Doesn't webcamd provide and use the Linux
drivers for input devices? On a single occasion, pcsxr detected the Xbox 360
controller as an evdev device, but I haven't been able to repeat that.
jstest-gtk can detect gamepads as /dev/input/js0, but that's the old Linux
joystick API and not evdev, and I haven't found anything other than than
jstest-gtk on FreeBSD which will use that.

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