PS3 controller reworked

[beaumanvienna]

This should fix #70 and the device indices bug for /dev/input/js*.

It contains a new function to start RetroRig automatically when the first controller is switched on. This function can be enabled or disabled during retrorig-setup.

[beaumanvienna]

I have amended the system call service rescan restart in gamepads.shinc.

Headsup: In gp_autostart_xbmc.sh we still have upstart code. We could issue some system depending sed instructions during setup. I'll think of something when I'm back from my vacation.

[mdeguzis]

I'll prepare something maybe too.

On October 31, 2014 6:27:53 PM EDT, Jens-Christian [email protected] wrote:

I have amended the system call service rescan restart in
gamepads.shinc.

Headsup: In
gp_autostart_xbmc.sh
we still have upstart code. We could issue some system depending sed
instructions during setup. I'll think of something when I'm back from
my vacation.

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[beaumanvienna]

That would be awesome. Please feel free to continue this code! Can you check on your Arch box if you get something like

yo@yo:~$ ps aux |grep "/bin/dbus-daemon --config-file"|grep -v grep
yo        1542  0.0  0.0  39380  2024      S    21:07   0:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --config-file=/etc/at-spi2/accessibility.conf

? Maybe you can figure out a better way how to detect the owner of the current X session.

The PS3 controller should be pretty much finished with this PR. What about hotplug support for the XBox360 controller? I remember we had some open items there as well? I still don't have such a controller.

Should we add the auto start function for the XBox360 controller as well?

Thanks!

[beaumanvienna]

From my side you can pull this in. I recommend to push this quickly to master.

I installed Linux Mint 17 (64bit version) from scratch this morning, with retrorig-setup.deb from my test repository as installation source. I've squashed one more bug, it was in the installation code for GensGs, and removed the hints to reboot for PS3/USB since this is not necessary anymore.

I love how fast the Debian-package based installation is: http://i.imgur.com/ZWj864i.png

The final version 0:0.9.5.4.5, created after testing and after all final amendments (commit count 25) can be installed via

add-apt-repository -y ppa:beauman/retrorig-testing && sudo update && sudo apt-get install -y retrorig-setup

Professor, this is a stable version! Please test this one more time, either from my test repository or after the PR was pulled in. Then please move this to master.

[mdeguzis]

What about hotplug support for the XBox360 controller? I remember we had some open items there as well? I still don't have such a controller.

For USB Xbox 360 controllers, it bases how many to sync up (via sed replace) on /etc/default/xboxdrv and then when you plug them in, it then assigns the number. I believe all it would take is a restart of xboxdrv for that. But yes, I can look at this soon.