How to confirm if USB Joystick is detected?

[ekianjo]

A very simple question.


Yesterday I connected my Pandora (beta5a) to :


- USB hub (2.0) where a gamepad was connected.


USB host was on.


I tried to use the pad but apparently it was not detected.


How cna i confirm, in terminal, if it is detected or not ?


In Linux distributions there is usually a joystick tool describing the buttons detected as showing that the directions of the pad are detected as well. Is there such thing for Pandora ?


THanks for your help.

 

[Takedown]

try typing in terminal lsusb. it should show you the connected devices in the port.

 

[ekianjo]

try typing in terminal lsusb. it should show you the connected devices in the port.

I will try, thank you.


Two follow up questions as bonus:


1. if I do not see anything, what could be the problem? I am already using the same gamepad on my Linux desktop without issue.


2. If it is actually detected, how do I know if the inputs are detected? And why wouldn't it come up in the emulators when I try to reassign the keys ?

 

[EvilDragon]

Not all emulators support gamepads.


Try PCSX ReARMED or PicoDrive, those should work.

 

[spiralofhope]

A test procedure is on my list of things to document.


Current notes are here, I've updated it with the lsusb tip. Something like jstest does need to be ported.


http://www.pandorawiki.org/Joystick_testing

 

[ekianjo]

Not all emulators support gamepads.


Try PCSX ReARMED or PicoDrive, those should work.

I'd like to understand why any emulator would not be able to manage gamepads - if they are recognized by the underlying system, how different is it from having a config for the Pandora D-pad and buttons in the first place?

A test procedure is on my list of things to document.


Current notes are here, I've updated it with the lsusb tip. Something like jstest does need to be ported.


http://www.pandorawi...oystick_testing

Thanks for updating this on the wiki. Jstest does not exist in the angstrom repositories at this stagE?

 

[Neelix]

Jstest does not exist in the angstrom repositories at this stagE?

I went looking for it, but it doesn't seem to be there...


-- Neelix

 

[ekianjo]

What does it do anyway? just confirm the inputs from the joystick, right? It has no other function ?

 

[spiralofhope]

What does it do anyway? just confirm the inputs from the joystick, right? It has no other function ?

jstest is pretty spectacular.


It detects all the usual information, and then helps you see on/off and values for every one. So you may have an input device which is 8-way but also has a sensitivity function. Hard left gives more input than moving gently to the left. For every input a column is listed and you can see a stream of the values like dmesg on crack.

 

[ekianjo]

What does it do anyway? just confirm the inputs from the joystick, right? It has no other function ?

jstest is pretty spectacular.


It detects all the usual information, and then helps you see on/off and values for every one. So you may have an input device which is 8-way but also has a sensitivity function. Hard left gives more input than moving gently to the left. For every input a column is listed and you can see a stream of the values like dmesg on crack.

I see.


How much effort required to porting it ? Does it have many dependencies?

 

[spiralofhope]

How much effort required to porting it ? Does it have many dependencies?

jstest is part of the joystick package.


http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~vojtech/joystick/


possibly


http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~vojtech/input/


I don't know what is involved with just compiling jstest.


I don't know if it's useful to give information from other distributions:


http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/joystick


= Checking Angstrom =


I found nothing on the Angstrom wiki:


http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/Angstrom


The Angstrom feed browser wasn't working for me:


http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/repo/?pkgsearch=joystick&arch=


I poked around the Angstrom mailing lists but couldn't find any info.


http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/MailingLists

 

[mcobit]

If you want a simple commandline joysticktester, you can try the one in the panmame package: advj


Here is how to use it:


http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/doc-advj.html