Re: Mayflash / Dragonrise GameCube controller adapter recognized as tablet, not joystick

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Hi Andrew,

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Andrew Rodland <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently bought a "Mayflash GameCube Controller Adapter for Wii U &
> PC USB". It has 4 GameCube controller ports, and a switch to tell it
> whether you're plugging it into a Wii or a PC. The docs say that in PC
> mode it works out of the box on Windows & Mac, with their driver being
> required for force-feedback, so it's a semi-standard HID device.
>
> With the switch set to "WII U", it's recognized as a hid-generic
> device, but the descriptors are nonsense and it doesn't generate any
> events. Fair enough.
>
> With the switch set to "PC" it's recognized, the descriptors make a
> lot more sense, and it sends events -- in fact it moves the cursor on
> my X display! For some reason it's getting recognized as a
> mouse/tablet instead of a joystick, so joydev refuses to take
> ownership of it, and X's evdev driver does. I suspect it's due to some
> mistake in the report descriptors, but I'm not quite expert enough to
> say.

>From the list of events you posted below it seems the device needs
HID_QUIRK_MULTI_INPUT to split it into 4 individual input devices.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry
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