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