[Bugme-new] [Bug 40812] New: Sony SixAxis DualShock3 gamepad controller support is buggy/incomplete

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Wed Aug 10 01:40:00 PDT 2011


https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40812

           Summary: Sony SixAxis DualShock3 gamepad controller support is
                    buggy/incomplete
           Product: Drivers
           Version: 2.5
    Kernel Version: 3.0.0
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
              Tree: Mainline
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: Input Devices
        AssignedTo: drivers_input-devices at kernel-bugs.osdl.org
        ReportedBy: virtuousfox at gmail.com
                CC: ospite at studenti.unina.it
        Regression: No


i recently have got myself a Sony SixAxis DuaslShock3 gamepad and decided to
use it on PC but found several deficiencies in its work:
1) there are a lot of axises registered but there is no reading from gyro and
accelerometer
2) there is no pressure data from "left" D-Pad button even though
pressed/unpressed status registered correctly (maybe a hardware fault. anyone
can confirm such behaviour for their hardware ?)
3) apparently force feedback/rumble support non-existent yet
4) you need to use hacky utility to write your BT adapter's MAC address into
gamepad's memory to initiate pairing
5) even after that it just starting to ask authorization from bluetooth stack
which if i grant it will be revoked after few seconds. gamepad disappears from
visible devices list for a second and then process is repeated until it shuts
itself off. and so, pairing is impossible.
6) there is no way to check battery status.
7) all leds are just blinking constantly instead of doing something useful like
showing its number in system, battery status, make funny flickering in tact
with possible rumble effect or button pressing or something.

there are some hacked old bluez version on net with crutches designed to
solve/mitigate most of those but they are obsolete, ugly and never worked for
me.

my current system have kernel-3.0.0, bluez-4.96, xf86-input-evdev-2.6.0,
xf86-input-joystick-1.6.0.

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