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Questions tagged [joystick]

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Are there any command line utilities that can capture joystick button presses?

Here's my situation: I have a Raspberry Pi with Raspbian installed on it. I also have RetroArch installed and a simple USB gamepad hooked up. Everything works fine, but I wanted to set it up so that pressing a key combination (ex L1+L2+R1+R2) would…
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accelerometer + screen rotation on non-touchscreen laptop?

I've recently got a non-touchscreen hp laptop with a hdd accelerometer. After upgrading it to Debian testing I noticed that whenever I tilt my laptop upwards past +45 deg, the screen rotates upside down. The opposite happens when I tilt my laptop…
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joystick as a mouse with Fedora

I would like to use a joystick as a mouse with Fedora 12. I tried js2mouse but didn't work. Is there another solution? How should I configure the system?
Luke
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Emulate joystick input via numeric input

I have an arduino which gives me numbers from a potentiometer (300-600), device /dev/ttyACM0 baudrate 9600. I want to use these numbers as a 1-axis joystick. My system is archlinux and X-Displaymanager.
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How can you run a script triggered by a joystick input?

I'm using a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian to power my arcade cabinet. I want to shut the Pi down using the sudo poweroff command without using the keyboard. I'm thinking the best way would be to create a simple script that would somehow be triggered…
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test evdev-joystick calibration

I want to calibrate a joystick (custom hardware) with no buttons and only one axis (Z). I used evtest to read the movement range i.e. min/max values and the centre (the point where the joystick rests), which is approximately in the middle of that…
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How to force evdev API instead Joystick legacy API?

Steam has support only evdev driver when using joystick, so I have a cool wii u "usb adapter" and 2 gamecube controllers working OK in steam thanks to the "wii-u-gc-adapter" tool. I also have 2 wiimote (with classic controller) working great (with…
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Help with udev rules my Keyboard thinks it's a Joystick

I'm running Archlinux and I have a weird problem my "Microsoft Wired Keyboard 600" gets picked up as a Joystick and a Keyboard for some reason. Note: Output trimmed ─$ xinput list Virtual core pointer id=2[master pointer (3)] ↳…
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usb Joystick Detected, but registers no input

I have two Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.7 systems, each running kernel 2.6.32-573.7.1.el6.x86_64 The same overall packages/configuration are applied to both, and I have installed kmod-joydev from the elrepo repository. On one of the systems(dell t3600…
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What does the xpad kernel module provide? (And what would I lose by disabling it?)

Backstory I wanted to use xbox controller for some steam-on-wine games. I found xboxdrv which claims to make xbox controller work for wine programs. When I run $sudo xboxdrv I get: xboxdrv 0.8.5 - http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/xboxdrv/ Copyright…
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Mapping two joysticks with Xorg

I already managed to map the input of a joystick to keyboard inputs by writing a file in my xorg.conf.d/ directory (the file is named 51-joystick.conf). Now I would like to map the inputs of a second joystick (same model) to use them together. So I…
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Is it possible to merge two (or more) joysticks into one virtual one?

With a more powerful graphics adapter comes the luxury of playing games in Linux (mostly using Lutris/Wine). I have the classical bundle of CH Products joystick (Fighterstick, Pro Throttle and Pro Pedals) mostly for flight simulations. Most modern…
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Trick a window that it has focus in kde

Is it possible to make a window believe that it has a focus while it has not? My use case description: I am playing a game named Detroit Become Human. I am playing with gamepad. The game is actually an interactive movie. It has a very complicated…
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Force PS3 clone arcade gamepad to be hid generic

I have a NETWAY GAMING ARCADE FIGHTER PS3/PC. This device works fine under windows and also does on recalbox 4.1, but does not in any current linux that I have tried. I have tried to recompile hid-sony with various older versions, including the very…
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Where is code for Switch Pro bluetooth joystick handling in linux kernel?

I want to try to implement gyro feature for Switch Pro joystick. For now it works, but no gyro input is supported, so it's implemented somewhere. However, I can't find where that code is, while wiimote or sony ones are pretty obvious. So, where is…
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