xbox controller will not shown in vdrift

[feldmaus]

Hi All,

i am on Debian Lenny 32bit System with kernel 2.6.30 and a Nvidia 8600GT graphics card. I downloaded(cvs or svn or git) and compiled vdrift. I tried to get my xbox controller to work, but vdrift seems to ignore my controller. I am not sure whether this is a driver Problem, but maybe someone can help me.

Here are some messages i get when i connect my xbox controller to my pc:
http://pastebin.com/f3e7b6570

Any hint ?

I still played vdrift with this xbox controller some time ago on a Debian Lenny System. But this was on my old pc i think.

regards markus

[joevenzon]

When you start vdrift, it prints out a line listing all of the input devices that SDL knows about:

Code:

INFO: 1 joystick found:
INFO:     0. Gravis Eliminator AfterShock

Do you have a similar line? Does it say 0 joysticks found?

[feldmaus]

Hmm he seems not to find one.

Code:

INFO: Multi-processor system detected.  Run with -multithreaded argument to enable multithreading (EXPERIMENTAL).
INFO: Starting VDrift: development-full, Version: 2505, O/S: Unix-like
INFO: Home directory: /home/markus
INFO: Settings file: /home/markus/.vdrift/VDrift.config
INFO: Data directory: /usr/local/share/games/vdrift/data
      DATA_DIR: /usr/local/share/games/vdrift/data
INFO: Log file: /home/markus/.vdrift/log.txt
INFO: SDL initialization successful
INFO: SDL video query was successful
INFO: Enabling antialiasing: 4X
INFO: Display change was successful: 1280x1024x32 24z fullscreen=1
INFO: Video card information:
      Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
      Renderer: GeForce 8600 GT/PCI/SSE2/3DNOW!
      Version: 3.0.0 NVIDIA 185.18.14
      Maximum texture size: 8192
      Using GLEW 1.5.0
INFO: Texture units: 4 full, 32 partial
INFO: Loaded shader package simple
INFO: Loaded shader package less_simple
INFO: Loaded shader package full
INFO: Loaded shader package full
INFO: Loaded shader package depthgen
INFO: Loaded shader package depthgen2
INFO: Loaded shader package depthonly
INFO: Loaded shader package distancefield
INFO: Loaded shader package bloompass
INFO: Loaded shader package bloomcomposite
INFO: Loaded shader package gaussian_blur
INFO: Loaded shader package gaussian_blur
INFO: Successfully enabled shaders
INFO: Maximum anisotropy: 16
INFO: 0 joysticks found.
INFO: Loading car controls from: /home/markus/.vdrift/controls.config
INFO: Sound initialization information:
INFO: Obtained audio device:
      Frequency: 44100
      Format: 32784
      Bits per sample: 16
      Channels: 2
      Silence: 0
      Samples: 940
      Size: 3760
      Sound initialization successful
INFO: Loaded fonts successfully
INFO: Loaded GUI successfully
INFO: Got quit message from GUI.  Shutting down...
INFO: Shutting down...
INFO: Exiting

[feldmaus]

I have the following modules loaded:

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by
pppoe                   9432  2
pppox                   2460  1 pppoe
ppp_generic            17924  6 pppoe,pppox
slhc                    4392  1 ppp_generic
nvidia               9531916  26
nfsd                  205024  9
exportfs                3452  1 nfsd
battery                10144  0
ppdev                   6664  0
powernow_k8            14640  1
cpufreq_conservative     6248  0
cpufreq_powersave       1368  0
f71882fg               19268  0
serio_raw               4604  0
wmi                     5472  0
button                  5132  0
psmouse                37636  0
xpad                    9180  0
processor              33940  1 powernow_k8
pcspkr                  2056  0
thermal                12708  0
fan                     4012  0

But the most modules are not shown here, because i implemented them into my kernel.

[joevenzon]

Since SDL reports 0 joysticks, this is not a VDrift problem.

With it plugged in, what does your /dev/input directory look like?

You could try this:
http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/xboxdrv/

[feldmaus]

Thanks for your help. My /dev/input directory contains the following:

Code:

/dev/input/
|-- by-id
|   `-- usb-045e_0202-event-joystick -> ../event4
|-- by-path
|   |-- pci-0000:00:13.4-usb-0:1.1:1.0-event-joystick -> ../event4
|   |-- pci-0000:00:14.2-event- -> ../event2
|   |-- platform-i8042-serio-0-event-kbd -> ../event1
|   |-- platform-i8042-serio-1-event-mouse -> ../event7
|   |-- platform-i8042-serio-1-mouse -> ../mouse1
|   `-- platform-pcspkr-event-spkr -> ../event3
|-- event0
|-- event1
|-- event2
|-- event3
|-- event4
|-- event5
|-- event6
|-- event7
|-- mice
|-- mouse0
`-- mouse1

And my whole /dev/directory contains:
http://pastebin.com/f4221ea07
But as i know there should be a js* device ??? Or am i wrong ?

[feldmaus]

Ok i got it. Most games seem to use /dev/input/jp[0-9] as joystick device. In my kernel config was only the Event Interface enabled. So i enabled the Joystick interface too.
Device Drivers --> Input Device support --> Joystick Interface

regards Markus