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Intrepid

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Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 254

[SOLVED] Xbox 360 Off-brand controller does not work

I'm having a problem getting X11 to recognize my Madcatz Xbox 360 controller under the Xpad driver.  It works under Ubuntu as a (get this) "pointer device" and perfectly under Windows 7, but nothing more.  I tried modifying entries in /etc/hal/fdi/policy as per instructions on the Linux Mint forums to no avail.

Below are some things I tried and some data.
/etc/hal/fdi/policy/MadCatzGamePad:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
    <device>
    <match key="info.product" contains="Mad Catz Wired Xbox 360 Controller">
    <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string"></merge>
    </match>
    </device>
</deviceinfo>

lshal | grep -i xbox:

  info.product = 'Mad Catz Wired Xbox 360 Controller'  (string)
  input.product = 'Mad Catz Wired Xbox 360 Controller'  (string)
  usb.interface.description = 'Xbox Security Method 3, Version 1.00, ? 2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.'  (string)

I hope somebody can use this information to help me out!  I love the Xbox 360 controller and it's certainly better than the logitech.  Buying a new controller is NOT an option!

Edit:  It actually works now, it just was blinking before I played a game.  Yay!

Last edited by Intrepid (2009-06-22 02:47:38)

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