On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 05:01:06PM +1000, Alex Fraser wrote: > Thanks, Adam, for recommending the PS3 controller as a game pad for > use in GNU/Linux. I got one last night from EB - presumably the same > kind you got, because it was also $8. The brand is "Spartan", which > seems to be EB's generic brand.
That's the one! Actually, Ben S. showed me his gamepad at SFD working perfectly which prompted me to try it out. I figured that most PS3 controllers would talk the same protocol as the official controllers, and at $8 brand new it was worth the risk. > I plugged it in, and it just worked! Even in Blender - so now I can > configure Cargo to use it. Mind you, I had tried to get an XBox 360 > controller working before without success, so maybe I had already done > some of the necessary configuration. I've never connected a gamepad of any kind to my laptop before and everything worked without configuration. Come to think of it, I do have dongles for the original Xbox and PS1/2 controllers somewhere so might give those a try at some point. There was an article on Phoronix about joystick driver support improving just the other day actually. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE4OTE -Adam
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