Linpus Red Octane X-plorer Guitar

Hi,

I am struggling to get my X-plorer working to play frets on fire.

I have compiled xpad from the source given from acer but added the lines needed for the xplorer (i think, i found a patch posted online with a diff showing to add these lines)
{ 0x1430, 0x4748, "RedOctane Guitar Hero X-plorer", MAP_DPAD_TO_AXES, XTYPE_XBOX360 },

Code:

lsmod gives

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by
xpad                    5700  0 
ff_memless              2888  1 xpad
rfcomm                 19736  0 
l2cap                  12416  3 rfcomm
bluetooth              28452  2 rfcomm,l2cap
aes                    26368  1 
aufs                   95956  3 
wlan_tkip               8384  1 
wlan_ccmp               4480  1 
wlan_xauth               640  0 
wlan_wep                3904  0 
wlan_acl                2048  0 
wlan_scan_sta           7232  1 
fastoffdrv               768  0 [permanent]
sdhci                   9292  0 
mmc_core               14852  1 sdhci
pciehp                 22232  0 
pci_hotplug             7688  1 pciehp
cpufreq_conservative     3080  0 
cpufreq_userspace       1388  0 
cpufreq_powersave        640  0 
cpufreq_stats           2256  0 
cpufreq_ondemand        3532  1 
acpi_cpufreq            3604  1 
freq_table              1608  3 cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand,acpi_cpufreq
jmb38x_xd               3776  0 
xd_card                18696  1 jmb38x_xd
flash_bd                5056  1 xd_card
mspro_block            20424  0 
jmb38x_ms               4484  0 
memstick                4484  2 mspro_block,jmb38x_ms
snd_hda_intel         163404  1 
fmaud                 142820  1 snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_oss            20160  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      3008  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                27920  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
uvcvideo               39752  0 
compat_ioctl32           640  1 uvcvideo
ath_pci                68192  0 
videodev               20928  1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat            10500  2 uvcvideo,videodev
ath_rate_atheros       23424  1 ath_pci
snd_seq_device          3468  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
v4l2_common            10688  2 uvcvideo,videodev
wlan                  126744  9 wlan_tkip,wlan_ccmp,wlan_xauth,wlan_wep,wlan_acl,wlan_scan_sta,ath_pci,ath_rate_atheros
ath_dfs                25796  1 ath_pci
snd_pcm_oss            26208  0 
joydev                  5120  0 
ath_hal               147200  3 ath_pci,ath_rate_atheros
rng_core                2180  0 
uhci_hcd               13644  0 
r8101                  16400  0 
snd_pcm                41028  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              11012  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          4168  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
ac                      2116  0 
battery                 6472  0 
thermal                 8092  0 
video                  10896  0 
backlight               1860  1 video
output                  1280  1 video
button                  3536  0 
processor              18624  2 acpi_cpufreq,thermal
snd_mixer_oss           9856  2 snd_pcm_oss
snd                    27236  8 snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss
soundcore               2976  2 snd
usb_storage            34656  0 
ehci_hcd               20300  0 
atkbd                   8912  0 
psmouse                13320  0 

lsusb gives

Code:

Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 1430:4748  
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0c45:62c0 Acer Crystal Eye Webcam
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 

dmesg gives

Code:

usbcore: registered new interface driver xpad
drivers/input/joystick/xpad.c: X-Box pad driver:v0.0.6
usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

a node is not created at /dev/input/js*

and the the leds the controller just flash constently.

I have been trying for 2 days to get this working can some one help please? I'm new to linux and have just about manage to understand what I had been doing so far.

Thanks

 

Everything looks good, so I'm thinking PolicyKit/permissions issue...

Have you tried running the software that creates the node as setuid root? IE, "sudo whatever-the-software-is"

If it works when you run it with root permissions, you're looking at a permissions issue.

If not, I don't know what to tell you.

 

Thanks for the reply, ill look in to that after work, only thing I noticed is that the lsusb shows a device but there is no name?

I thought the node should be created when I plug (im a noob) the controller in by the xpad module but a node is not created.

 

This could be true, but I think xpad does that. In other words, there's no kernel driver for it, xpad creates the file.

I may be up the wrong tree, but that's how the palmpilot works. The node itself is created by the "pilot-link" software. But it does give a device name in lsusb even when no node exists, so other issues could exist.

Does a "regular" gamepad work when you plug one in? (If you have one to test)

 

Hi
I do not have another gamepad to try, ill keep messing around. Im not sure if having a name in lsusb matters or not.

I dont know what the userspace is but I have found this http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/xboxdrv/ so I might give this ago.