Hi everyone, With Steam bringing in the game devs I've been working on a dedicated game machine. Since there's some new attention in this area I thought I'd bring the experience to the list. I was thinking that we could probably do a better job supporting game controllers out of the box:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/165210/how-do-i-get-an-xbox-360-controller-working https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Sixaxis The Xbox controller was relatively straightforward (I can't comment on the PS3 as I don't have the hardware), but it's still not usable to normal people. I was wondering if someone would be interested in working on software-properties-gtk to make it so when someone plugs in either controller the user is prompted to install the right software and it all just works. As it happens I have a spare Xbox controller and cable that I can mail to someone. There are some other minor issues as well, like blacklisting xpad and xboxdrv needs an upstart job, but it doesn't seem overly complex. I'm sure we can drum up some support for getting a developer a PS3 controller if they're interested in fixing those controllers too. -- Jorge Castro Canonical Ltd. http://juju.ubuntu.com/charm-championship - Share your infrastructure, win a prize! -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
