Getting gamepads to work

[Corey Goettsch]

Hello:

I am interested in turning my pi into an emulation box. I'vemade some good progress so far--I've got retroarch up and running. Thelast piece of the puzzle is getting my gamepad to work. I have a Logitech F510 Rumble Gamepad. It works great on my Ubuntu laptop. However, my raspberry pi won't acknowledge it. I've checked /dev/input, and I've found nothing about my gamepad . Lsusb acknowledges it's plugged in. I looked in the kernel modules, and in the /lib/modules/kernel/3.1.9=/drivers/input/ folder, there is no joystick folder. There is on my ubuntu box. Does this mean I don't have any joystick headers? I've installed both the xboxdrv package and the joystick package. Does anyone have any idea where I should go from here? Do I need to compile some headers for my gamepad? Or is there something else should do? I've only been using linux for a year or so, so I'm a relative noob. I should mention that lsmod on my ubuntu box showed that two modules were at work with this game pad: xpad.ko and ff_memless.ko. I've got ff_memless on the pi, but not xpad.ko. Any help would be greatly apreciated. Thank you so much!

Sincerely,

Corey Goettsch

[cpswan]

If you download the kernel source then I can confirm that /drivers/input/joystick/xpad.c is there, so it should be a simple case of compiling that into a kernel module.

This thread gives the best blow by blow description of compiling a kernel module I've seen so far (you probably need to follow up to around step 14). I'd suggest copying xpad.c to a separate directory along with Module.symvers and use a Makefile like this:

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obj-m = xpad.o
KVERSION = $(shell uname -r)
all:
        make -C /lib/modules/$(KVERSION)/build M=$(PWD) modules
clean:
        make -C /lib/modules/$(KVERSION)/build M=$(PWD) clean

Ensure you use tabs rather than spaces for the indentation in the Makefile, or it won't behave.
All being well you should be able to run make and it will give you an xpad.ko file that you can install with sudo insmod xpad.ko

[Corey Goettsch]

Thanks so much for your reply! I'm very sorry I haven't replied: I had no idea you posted this. Let me give this a whirl tonight, and I'll let you know what happens. Thanks again!

[eix]

Does anybody have xpad.ko for kernel 3.2.27+ on Raspberry Pi? I am missing it a lot..

[Turrican]

Don't know if it's still needed, but recently I was able to compile a xpad.ko for 3.2.27+ on the Raspbian Image from 2012-10-28

Hope that helps.

[vikbez]

Did anyone compiled this for 3.6.11+ ?
Thanks

[outsider]

That would be awesome.

[outsider]

I got annoyed not having the driver, so I compiled it, here is xpad.ko for 2.6.11+ which work with raspberrypi-bootloader 1.20130203-1: http://bucket.changeover.za.net/xpad.ko

[PabloCR]

Hey I'm still trying to get my F510 to work with retroarch.
When I plug it in in X mode it gets correctly listed by lsusb

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Bus 001 Device 008: ID 046d:c21e Logitech, Inc. F510 Gamepad [XInput Mode]

but when I try to run

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retroarch-joyconfig 

I get:

Couldn't open joystick #0.

Has anyone be able to make this work?

Thanks!!

[LustigePerson]

I have the same Problem.
It is listed in lsusb but not found in retroarch.

Are there any news on this?
I've read that the new Version of xboxdrv could get it to work.
But it is only part of Debian testing.
So has anybody got it to work?