Best gamepad for Oolite Linux

[mcarans]

Thanks for this.

I'm leaning towards the Logitech because I can get it in a high street shop in case I have any problems and need to take it back. I haven't seen the ThrustMaster FireStorm Dual Analog on the high street.

Obviously the XBox 360 controller is easily available on the high street too, but to date no one has told me that they have it working in Oolite Linux. If anyone has got it working and is happy with it, please speak up.

[mcarans]

Well after failing to get any controller on the high street, I decided to take a chance with the XBox 360 controller as I had a chance to try one in HMV and Game has it for only £15 including delivery (unfortunately it's £25 in store and at HMV).

I may end up regretting this if I can't get it to work in Oolite Linux, but at least I know from user aceshigh that it works in Oolite Windows. He also said "as for the controller itself, it is, in my opinion, the best gamepad available." and that's certainly the impression I've got from reviews.

I'll post back if and how I get it working.

[DaddyHoggy]

Re: Xbox360 Controller - the UK MOD certainly like them - the flight controllers for our UAVs are being converted to use them (because in the training sims a 360 controller was already used and the pilots preferred them to the original "real" ones!)

[mcarans]

Good news. It worked out of the box in Ubuntu Lucid.

I did not notice any drift or other problems in the brief time I tried Oolite with it last night. Oolite allowed me to configure the buttons, axes etc.

I'm never satisfied though, so I played around with the userspace driver:
http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/xboxdrv/

That also worked fine. It has some useful features like being able to map the triggers as buttons rather than axes. It also allows flipping axes and mapping buttons to keys on the keyboard, but I haven't tried these features yet.

[DaddyHoggy]

Excellent - should by faithful Firestorm ever fall over I'll know what to get!

[itoffshore]

For anyone using Linux look at Qjoypad - it works perfectly with the new Logitech dual stick F310 & can map every button (including the Logitech button):

Left Stick = Pitch (up/down) & Yaw (Left Right) - with gradient
Directional Pad N / S / W for the view in flight & 1 / 2 / 3 docked
Directional Pad East - Advanced Space Compass views
Left Stick Click = Arm Missile
Right Stick Click = Next Target
Right Stick Left / Right = roll - with gradient
Right Stick Up / Down = cursor up / down (for when docked)
Left small black button = untarget missile
Right small black button = fire missile
Green / Blue buttons = speed up / down
Yellow / Red = Hyperspace / Fuel injectors
Left outside button = 5 (status screen)
Right outside button = 6 (System Charts)
Right Trigger = 8 (Market Prices)
Logitech center button = enter / return
Left Trigger = fire laser

I have Missile Analyser so the only button I can't configure is "7" for system data but the Welcome Mat OXP gives this info when you jump into a system.

Qjoypad config:

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Joystick 1 {
	Axis 1: gradient, +key 60, -key 59
	Axis 2: gradient, +key 32, -key 46
	Axis 3: dZone 22000, +key 38, -key 0
	Axis 4: gradient, +key 47, -key 45
	Axis 5: +key 116, -key 111
	Axis 6: dZone 20596, +key 17, -key 0
	Axis 7: +key 51, -key 12
	Axis 8: +key 11, -key 10
	Button 1: key 39
	Button 2: key 31
	Button 3: key 25
	Button 4: key 44
	Button 5: key 14
	Button 6: key 15
	Button 7: key 58
	Button 8: key 36
	Button 9: key 28
	Button 10: key 29
	Button 11: key 30
}

Set to Xinput Mode on the underneath switch & leave the light off on the bottom small black button above the left stick.

[kcallis]

What is anyone's take on Saitek P3000 Wireless Gamepad or the Thrustmaster F1 Wireless Ferrari F60 ? Would like to run it under Ubuntu 11.10.

[DaddyHoggy]

What is anyone's take on Saitek P3000 Wireless Gamepad?

Can I suggest you kill off your other thread where you ask exactly the same question - lest you (and we) have to track two answers.

[kcallis]

I wasn't attempting to start multiple threads. I noted that it has been a thread that was several years old. So I wasn't sure if that older thread would generate an answer on such an old posting.

[Commander McLane]

When answering, people don't usually look at how old the first post in a thread is, but what was asked in the last (and new) post.

We even had situations where someone noticed another question in the second-to-last post and answered it, even if that post was written pre-thread-resurrection and therefore was already a couple of years old.

It's considered bad style, however, to post the same question in multiple threads.

HINT: if you've posted a question somewhere, and then discover a better place to post it, you can always go back to your first post and simply delete it. As long as nobody else has yet answered, you'll see a small box with an 'X' somewhere. Just click on it and your post gets deleted. If you started a new thread, this will automatically delete the whole thread. You can do that right now, because nobody has posted yet in your new thread.