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eljoeb

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Registered: 2007-12-02

Posts: 37

Has anyone gotten a Sony PS3 Controller Working?

Hey,

I've been reading that the PS3 controller works in Linux.  Unfortunately, I haven't had much luck.  I don't have much joystick experience (that sounds bad) and I'm just following the directions in the wiki article.  They don't seem to help here.  I modprobe usbhid, joydev, and analog.  I'm thinking analog is the wrong one to load.  There is, however, a /dev/input/js0.  lsusb returns something like this

Bus 005 Device 006: ID 0781:7460 SanDisk Corp.
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 054c:0174 Sony Corp.
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0bc2:3000 Seagate RSS LLC
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 054c:0268 Sony Corp.
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

So I'm guessing it sees something.  At least I think it might; my computer is a sony product so maybe it sees something else.  So where I'm at, I try to play some game and see if it works... and it... doesn't.

I did install the joystick package in the repositories.  I tried installing the joyutils in the AUR but returned errors about a version number (the package is supposedly out of date).

Does anyone have experience with this?  Please let me know!

eljoeb

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Registered: 2007-12-02

Posts: 37

Re: Has anyone gotten a Sony PS3 Controller Working?

Alright, I found that I need to put the controller into "operational mode" by "adding a  USBhid quirk" 
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/g … 6a0391b964

I recognize that people may not know anything about the PS3 controller but would you know how I might go about this?

Last edited by eljoeb (2007-12-12 14:54:30)

Navi_

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Registered: 2007-07-21

Posts: 17

Re: Has anyone gotten a Sony PS3 Controller Working?

That patch should already be included in kernels 2.6.21 and up.  It should just be plug 'n play.

jb

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From: 95% FL / 5% MI

Registered: 2006-06-22

Posts: 464

Re: Has anyone gotten a Sony PS3 Controller Working?

Has anyone noticed a slight delay when using the controller with zsnes?

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SiegeMachine

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Registered: 2009-03-26

Posts: 157

Re: Has anyone gotten a Sony PS3 Controller Working?

Well I plugged my ps3 controller in through USB and if I try to set game controls with it when I push buttons on it nothing happens so its not being detected.  Is there some kind of driver needed?

schuay

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From: Austria

Registered: 2008-08-19

Posts: 564

Re: Has anyone gotten a Sony PS3 Controller Working?

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=86006

Using the PS3 controllers works perfectly with that.

Edit: just noticed this thread is 3 years old

Last edited by schuay (2010-02-11 18:42:42)

SiegeMachine

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Registered: 2009-03-26

Posts: 157

Re: Has anyone gotten a Sony PS3 Controller Working?

I posted in there too, doesn't work for me XD and I have no idea why

marinftw

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From: Queretaro, Mexico.

Registered: 2009-12-13

Posts: 9

Re: Has anyone gotten a Sony PS3 Controller Working?

did you press the ps button? that turn the controller on, flashing ligths doesn't mean that the controller it's on. you have to do it manually.

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