From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Fritz Subject: Re: Fwd: issue with Mad Catz joystick ? Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 23:39:40 +0200 Message-ID: <1431121180.9786.23.camel@mars> References: Reply-To: chf.fritz@googlemail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-wi0-f170.google.com ([209.85.212.170]:35697 "EHLO mail-wi0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751568AbbEHVjo (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2015 17:39:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Guillaume APOSTOLY Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org 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