Gamepad selection

[DavidMarec]

Hi all,

I m playing on my FreeBD-Box for years, using mouse and keyboard.

But, nowadays, is it possible to run a gamepad properly on FreeBSD ?

So, i need some feedbacks, to buy a gamepad.
Not just to know what are the best ones, but, which are the ones that will statisfy my needs.
Specifically, I would like playing games such as FPS ( Assault cube, BZFlag) and M.A.M.E stuffs.

Thanks for your help.

 

[DavidMarec]

nowadays, is it possible to run a gamepad properly on FreeBSD ?

Finally, i bought this one:
Saitek, P480 model.


And,what are the ways to make an USB joystick work ?

I have only installed the xf86-input-joystick driver,and, BzFlag for example, recognizes and lets me use the gamepad.

So what are the gamepad's known APIs under FreeBSD ? What about the "joy" kernel module ?


To resume, my gamepad is running with BZFlags (due to one of the SDL APIs ?), but not with M.A.M.E.

The gamepad is initialized during the game selection menu,

Joystick: Start initialization
Input: Adding Joy #1: 0x0004 (0)
Joystick: 0x0004 (0)
Joystick:   ...  4 axes, 12 buttons 1 hats
Joystick:   ...  Physical id 0 mapped to logical id 0
Joystick: End initialization

but once a game is launched, this input resource is removed:

Joystick: Start deinitialization
Joystick: End deinitialization

See the result.