Other Help Topics :: Getting Human Interface Device (gamepad) to work

So I just soldered up an NES Max Gamepad to a Retrokit (http://www.retrousb.com/nintendo.html). It detects and functions well under Windows XP on my main computer system, but I'm not sure how to make it work under DSL on my laptop. I tried searching around a little here and there, and all the sites I can find just say that HID devices should detect magically and work under Linux. Can someone point me to a better resource, or simply tell me how to make the thing work? I'm mostly interested in making it work in conjunction with Tuxnes. Thanks.

Bump..... I haven't had much time to look for more documentation between moving and a new job, but I still haven't gotten the thing to work. I'd really like to get it working soon for a trip I'm taking. Thanks for any help you can give.

Here is a thread:

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....oystick

that points to this wiki for advice.

http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Enable_Joypad_Support

To get my usb gamepad working I did

sudo modprobe joydev

I used apt-get to install diagnostic and alignment tools just to have them installed.

Thanks for the info, my NES gamepad is now up and running happily. (That was really simple, guess it doesn't matter that it's a HID device). Anyhow, now my little 233Mhz laptop is a more or less perfect NES emulator (that and all the productive things it can do to).

Everything is now working great. For anyone else who decides to try to use a Retrozone USB Gamepad (http://www.retrousb.com/nintendo.html) with GTuxNES.....

I opted to add the insmod joydev line to /opt/bootlocal.sh
Then I used jstest to figure out what the buttons on the pad where...
Then I mucked with the remap joystick field to determine what needed to go where...
The proper configuration is 1:B1,B0,B3,B2,B8,B10,B11,B9

Just figured I should share my results, in case anyone else was needing assistance on the same thing.

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