Seeing as I've now got an XBox 360 which uses a USB controller, I thought I'd give it a shot on Linux (or on Ubuntu to be exact).
Most devices these days are plug-and-play in Linux, and this controller is no exception - but. . .
It detects it as a mouse! The left stick causes the mouse pointer to move, which is less than helpful for playing games.
However, help is at hand. To get the gamepad working, open a command window and enter the following:
xinput list
This should give you a list that contains the XBox controller details:
"Microsoft X-Box 360 pad" id=5 [XExtensionPointer]
Num_buttons is 32
Num_axes is 2
Mode is Absolute
Motion_buffer is 256
Axis 0 :
Min_value is -32768
Max_value is 32767
Resolution is 10000
Axis 1 :
Min_value is -32768
Max_value is 32767
Resolution is 10000
Type the following, replacing [device] with the device ID provided above (in our example 5):
sudo xinput set-int-prop [device] 'Device Enabled' 32 0
And that's it, at least until you reboot.
Update: For those of you on 9.04, good news! The controller works properly without any additional configuration. Nice one!
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This did not work for me, I got:
Invalid format 0
A reboot didn't change anything either.
Sorry, looks like blogger mangled the last xinput command. It should have read:
sudo xinput set-int-prop [device] 'Device Enabled' 32 0
(replace [device] with the device id). I've fixed it in the article too.
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