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Driver not correctly identifying the number of buttons on a Namtai Buzz! Controller

Bug #116977 reported by mrben
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linux-source-2.6.20 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I have a Buzz! Controller, from the PS2, which I'm told registers as a 20-button joystick/joypad on Windows. It is picked up fine in Ubuntu (feisty) and quick tests with jstest and jscalibrator indicate that it is working, except that both show it as only having 16 buttons, whereas it has 20. 4 of the buttons are doubling up in jstest; jscalibrator simply ignores 4 of them. I suspect that this is a driver issue with the xpad driver.

Dmesg:

[ 7386.564000] usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[ 7386.736000] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 7386.760000] input: Namtai Buzz as /class/input/input9
[ 7386.760000] input: USB HID v1.00 Joystick [Namtai Buzz] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-2

jstest:

mrben@mrben-laptop:~$ jstest --normal /dev/input/js0
Driver version is 2.1.0.
Joystick (Namtai Buzz) has 2 axes (X, Y)
and 16 buttons (Trigger, ThumbBtn, ThumbBtn2, TopBtn, TopBtn2, PinkieBtn, BaseBtn, BaseBtn2, BaseBtn3, BaseBtn4, BaseBtn5, BaseBtn6, BtnDead, BtnA, BtnB, BtnC).

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Bart Martens (bartm) wrote :

I have no idea why this was assigned to the "xpad" package.

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mrben (mrben) wrote : Re: [Bug 116977] Re: Driver not correctly identifying the number of buttons on a Namtai Buzz! Controller

Apologies. I think I've mixed up the xpad application with the xpad driver.

On 6/2/07, Bart Martens <email address hidden> wrote:
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> I have no idea why this was assigned to the "xpad" package.
>
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> Driver not correctly identifying the number of buttons on a Namtai Buzz!
> Controller
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/116977
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mrben (mrben) wrote :

xpad is also the name of an application :( I couldn't find a package which contain the xpad kernel module, which I believe is the affected one, but this seemed like a possibility

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

This looks like it was mis-filed against X, but as mentioned in the bug description it is suspected to be an issue with the kernel module. Refiling against the Feisty kernel.

Could you please test against Hardy and see if the issue still exists in that? If so, please list this as also affects the 2.6.24 kernel.

Changed in xserver-xorg-input-joystick:
status: New → Incomplete
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mrben (mrben) wrote :

Looks like this has been fixed in Gutsy (and I presume Hardy - will confirm once I've upgraded my laptop):

mrben@mrben-laptop:~$ jstest --normal /dev/input/js0
Driver version is 2.1.0.
Joystick (Namtai Buzz) has 2 axes (X, Y)
and 20 buttons (Trigger, ThumbBtn, ThumbBtn2, TopBtn, TopBtn2, PinkieBtn, BaseBtn, BaseBtn2, BaseBtn3, BaseBtn4, BaseBtn5, BaseBtn6, BtnDead, BtnA, BtnB, BtnC, BtnX, BtnY, BtnZ, BtnTL).

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Connor Imes (ckimes) wrote :

Can you confirm that this has been fixed?

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mrben (mrben) wrote :

Yes, the issue has been fixed.

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 6:19 AM, Connor Imes <email address hidden> wrote:
> Can you confirm that this has been fixed?
>
> --
> Driver not correctly identifying the number of buttons on a Namtai Buzz! Controller
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/116977
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

--
Ben Thorp
<email address hidden>
"Carpe Aptenodytes"

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Connor Imes (ckimes) wrote :

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with an update. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status . Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Feel free to submit any future bugs you may find.

Changed in linux-source-2.6.20:
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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