Re: Fwd: issue with Mad Catz joystick ?

[Christoph Fritz <chf.fritz@googlemail.com>]

Hi Guillaume

On Tue, 2015-05-05 at 08:09 +0200, Guillaume APOSTOLY wrote:
> I have the first PS3 version of the MadCatz Arcade Stick and I am trying to
> use it on my raspberry pi (with a raspbian distribution).
> The joystick is "detected", it shows up if I do "lsusb" and even if I do a
> "jstest /dev/input/js0" but the display of jstest is like frozen and
> pressing the buttons has no effect.
> Oddly enough, it worked once (not the first time) after a reboot.

Can you make sure this PS3 device is in an overall working condition? If
so, you need to come up with a quirk to make it work for Linux.

> I have tested modification of the voltage of the USB, tried to power it
> with a Y cable in case this was the issue, I have investigated the usb
> layer (the stick being known on the web to use OHCI but I think this is a
> wrong lead).
> Yesterday, I also added a part to xpad.c with the appropriate device ID,
> hoping that it will make it work somehow better, as currently only the xbox
> version is declared, and recompiled the kernel but this changes nothing :

As you noted, your device is for PlayStation 3 -- why do you think the
xbox driver is appropriate? It's not!

have fun
  -- chf