Re: Gamepad/Joypad: Not All Buttons Recognized

ubi staggered into the Black Sun and said:
[ problem with a USB HID gamepad having only 12 of its 16 buttons
recognized ]
On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:23:51 -0600, Dances With Crows wrote:
There's nothing in a 2.6.20.1 vanilla kernel's USB tree about
anything weird with Jess Tech. devices that I could find.
I'm using Ubuntu's 2.6.17-11-generic, maybe it's an Ubuntu-specific
patch?

? When the kernel guys find a device that has quirks, they add that
device's vendor ID and device ID to a table or set of tables in the
kernel source. Then the module that handles that device class can take
appropriate action to work around the quirks that device has. Since
there was nothing about your device in a recent vanilla source tarball,
I figured that either A) nobody's reported anything to Vojtech and the
guys yet or B) nobody's used this device yet.

Um... This may require kernel-level screwing around to figure out
what's really going on with the device. Get your printk()s out and
be prepared to use them....
Oh well, and I hoped to get away without that kernel hacking stuff... ;)

It's not hacking if you just add extra statements that display
additional information. Regardless, you may wish to put the relevant
output from lsusb -v into a text file, just in case the kernel guys want
to see it.

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