* Benjamin Tissoires > Thanks for the logs. > > So, yes, it appears that your joypad as a weird report descriptor. > It declares 2 Z axis, no Ry and one Rz. > > The first Z axis seems somewhat correlated to X, but does not seem to > add any actual value but noise. That's right. > If I understand correctly your problem, I can submit a patch which > will mute the Z axis, and provide proper Rx,Ry so you won't have to > deal with that in userspace. > Will this be OK with you? I would appreciate it if you do this, and learn to do it myself! Yet I think that Z axis is better removed than muted; it serves no purpose and would only confuse other users of this device (if any) when tools present them with 7 axes to configure. > On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Orivej Desh <orivej@xxxxxx> wrote: > > * Benjamin Tissoires > >> Thanks for the bisect. Could you please run a hid-recorder from > >> http://bentiss.github.io/hid-replay-docs/ and record a few events from > >> your joypad? Depending on the output, we will be able to tell you > >> where this should be fixed (but I strongly suspect that the kernel > >> should be fixed). > > > > See attached idle.hid, with what appears to be noise on the Z axis when > > the joypad is idle, and XYRxRy.hid with my approximation to the sequence > > of physical X Y Rx Ry zero-negative-positive-zero swings. > > >> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 4:26 AM, Orivej Desh <orivej@xxxxxx> wrote: > >> > I have one of those gamepads, and since Linux 3.18 the kernel hides one > >> > of its axes. > >> > > >> > In Linux 3.17 jstest reports it as > >> > > >> > Joystick (PC Game Controller ) has 7 axes (X, Y, Z, Rx, Rz, Hat0X, Hat0Y) > >> > > >> > and in Linux 3.18 as > >> > > >> > Joystick (PC Game Controller ) has 6 axes (X, Y, Z, Rz, Hat0X, Hat0Y) > >> > > >> > It has 6 physical axes (X, Y, Rx, Ry, Hat0X, Hat0Y), but Ry is reported > >> > as Rz, and Z emits noise (which had to be silenced with jscal). > >> > > >> > I bisected disappearing axis to the following commit [1], but if I > >> > understand correctly, it is the device that is wrong by misreporting > >> > some property of Rx. > >> > > >> > I can remap Rz to Ry in userspace with ioctl(fd, JSIOCSAXMAP, ...), > >> > though I never had to. Can I likewise restore Rx in userspace (and also > >> > delete Z)? If not, or if this device justifies a quirk, how should it > >> > be added? > >> > > >> > usb-devices report: [2]. > >> > > >> > [1] > >> > commit 79346d620e9de87912de73337f6df8b7f9a46888 > >> > Author: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx> > >> > Date: Mon Aug 25 13:07:10 2014 -0400 > >> > > >> > HID: input: force generic axis to be mapped to their user space axis > >> > > >> > Atmel 840B digitizer presents a stylus interface which reports twice > >> > the X coordinate and then twice the Y coordinate. In its current > >> > implementation, hid-input assign the first X to X, then the second to Y, > >> > then the first Y to Z, then the second one to RX. > >> > > >> > This is wrong, and X should always be mapped to X, no matter what. > >> > A solution consists in forcing X, Y, Z, RX, RY, RZ to be mapped to their > >> > correct user space counter part. > >> > > >> > Reported-by: Éric Brunet <Eric.Brunet@xxxxxxxxxx> > >> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx> > >> > Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> > >> > > >> > diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-input.c b/drivers/hid/hid-input.c > >> > index 2619f7f..2df7fdd 100644 > >> > --- a/drivers/hid/hid-input.c > >> > +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-input.c > >> > @@ -599,6 +599,12 @@ static void hidinput_configure_usage(struct hid_input *hidinput, struct hid_fiel > >> > /* These usage IDs map directly to the usage codes. */ > >> > case HID_GD_X: case HID_GD_Y: case HID_GD_Z: > >> > case HID_GD_RX: case HID_GD_RY: case HID_GD_RZ: > >> > + if (field->flags & HID_MAIN_ITEM_RELATIVE) > >> > + map_rel(usage->hid & 0xf); > >> > + else > >> > + map_abs_clear(usage->hid & 0xf); > >> > + break; > >> > + > >> > case HID_GD_SLIDER: case HID_GD_DIAL: case HID_GD_WHEEL: > >> > if (field->flags & HID_MAIN_ITEM_RELATIVE) > >> > map_rel(usage->hid & 0xf); > >> > > >> > [2] > >> > T: Bus=09 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=1.5 MxCh= 0 > >> > D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 > >> > P: Vendor=11ff ProdID=3331 Rev=01.07 > >> > S: Product=PC Game Controller > >> > C: #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=500mA > >> > I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=03(HID ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=usbhid -- 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