Hi! > >I am sure Frank will comment on this as well. > > The Dualshock 3 is a special case in that every button except for start, > select and the PS button are both digital and analog. As such, the > controller reports 27 axes that end up spilling over into the ABS_MT values. > This mapping comes from the default HID descriptor from the device, so it's > been this way from day 1. If the navigation controller is basically the > same as a DS3 then it will have the same issues. > > To note, the DS3 only has 20 actual, physical axes meaning that 7 of the > reported axes don't even do anything and I'm not sure why they are there. > The HID descriptor could be rewritten to map everything in a more correct > manner, but that would break the mapping that has been there for 8 or 9 > years at this point and probably break some user-space applications in the > process. Ok, makes sense, but could this go to the beggining of hid-sony.c file as a comment, so that it is easy to find? And BTW to you know anything about the other move controller? I have code to light the LED (which I really wanted), but can't get other data. In particular, I'd like temperature ;-). [18788.740182] usb 2-2: new full-speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd [18788.906163] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=054c, idProduct=03d5 [18788.906173] usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 [18788.906179] usb 2-2: Product: Motion Controller [18788.906184] usb 2-2: Manufacturer: Sony Computer Entertainment [18788.924254] input: Sony Computer Entertainment Motion Controller as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/0003:054C:03D5.0002/input/input12 [18788.981391] sony 0003:054C:03D5.0002: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Joystick [Sony Computer Entertainment Motion Controller] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-2/input0 Thanks, Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
