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Questions tagged [joystick]

Questions related to the use and configuration of joystick peripherals

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How do I configure a joystick or gamepad?

I recently received a Logitech Rumblepad 2 (a joystick, like a PS2 controller) from a friend. How would I configure this in Ubuntu? If possible, I would prefer to use a GUI utility. I tried jstest-gui, but it shows my accelerometer!
RolandiXor
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Joystick acts as mouse; won't stop

Joystick acts as a mouse, even when I'm playing a game that uses a joystick so I get random mouse events going on. I plugged a joystick in to play Spiral Knights, also installed joystick and jcalibrate. Everything is working good, except by default…
Shazzner
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How can a gamepad control THE mouse?

There are many questions about this subject: Remapping both mouse and keyboard to a gamepad How do I configure a joystick or gamepad? How to control the mouse pointer via my keyboard? ... But the purpose of these questions/answers is to be able to…
Boris
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How to map keyboard keys to joystick buttons using joy2key?

There isn't much documentation on the game I'm playing using WINE, and it doesn't detect a joystick. I want to use joy2key to map keyboard keys to joystick buttons, but can't figure out exactly how to use its command line interface. joy2key -dev…
Shantanu Bedajna
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Logitech F310 Controller isn't mapping correctly

It's not that it's being recognised, when I run lsusb I get the following output$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp. Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation…
Tamsyn Michael
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How do I get my Xbox360 controller to work in Ubuntu 12.10?

I'm trying to play The W​alking D​ead on Ubuntu 12.10 with my Xbox360 controller like I do in Windows. The thing is the game start and only lets my use the mouse and keyboard. In windows when the control is unplugged it start like that and when it's…
Pablo Viollier
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Bluetooth not working at all after I made some changes to pair with PS3 joystick

I have a "media stuff" computer connected to a TV that I use to play films, music and for gaming. Lately I wanted to use either or both my Wii and PS3 joysticks via the bluetooth provided by the motherboard. At first my PC seemed to be able to…
Louis-Martin Carrière
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Joystick emulator and Wine

Is there a way to emulate a joystick in Ubuntu, i.e. create a device that looks like a joystick but is actually driven from some userspace program? And ideally the device would be recognized by Wine? I'd like to play some Tie Fighter 95, which won't…
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Cannot get USB gamepad to work in Ubuntu 12.04

I'm trying to get a cheap usb gamepad to work under Ubuntu 12.04 running on my arm chromebook (using chroot). After plugging in the gamepad, dmesg shows: [ 5879.411510] usb 2-1: new low-speed USB device number 8 using exynos-ohci [ 5879.610530] usb…
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Alternative to QJoyPad

I'd like to know if there is any alternative to QJoyPad, I've tried to install it, but it's only available from the source and is not possible to compile it, because of some errors. Anyway, you can't install it from a deb package, because it was…
Zignd
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Trust controller in X mode, seen but gives no input

I have a Trust GTX YULA controller which I would also like to use on my Ubuntu laptop. The controller has a switch between Direct mode and X mode, where it pretends to be an XBOX controller. X mode works fine on Windows. I don't want to use D mode…
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Disable power-off button on NVidia Shield controller (joystick) in Unity

I have an NVidia Shield Controller, that is detected by Ubuntu as a standard joystick. Unity seems to react to some of the special buttons of this controller such as Volume Up, Volume Down and more annoyingly a special button on the controller is…
Guillaume Papin
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How do I get a Huijia gamepad working?

I have a usb n64 controller adapter and I don't know how to calibrate it. I ran jscal and everything but the joystick portion still only registers half way. and when I do try to calibrate it, It thinks it has 12 axises!
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Gamepad detected by lsusb but not by PCSX or jstest-gtk in Ubuntu 14.04

I had been using a PS3 gamepad on PCSX for a while on Ubuntu 14.04, but realized it stopped working today. The controller is detected by lsusb on Terminal, but it does not appear in PCSX or jstest-gtk. Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp.…
sanwablo
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Qjoypad 4.1: No GUI

I am trying to open/find the GUI for Qjoypad 4.1 on Ubuntu 13.10. I installed Qjoypad via Synaptic using the default repositories. I see the tray icon, but I cannot get the window that I see in this answer (https://askubuntu.com/a/225484/158340).…
Devyn Collier Johnson
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