^ I used the second link too. IIRC you MUST recompile at least some things if you used that. I followed the instructions in the tutorial using kernel 2.6.25.4 and everything worked. Some other BT devices I have got recognised too.

One thing I will say: if you screw up xorg.conf in certain ways, the X server may not load. In fact, it is possible to make the system hang with some seemingly VERY minor errors in there, yet other seemingly larger errors are totally ignored. Ask me how I know...

For those just starting out, feel free to grab my complete xorg.conf. It was put together on Intrepid Ibex. Thanks all for getting this going.

Simply run: wget http://www.gate.net/~hew/xorg.conf

I'm curious if anyone has been able to get the joystick calibrator "jscal" to load a previously saved output. Too many axes on this Sixaxis for poor jscal!

-Harold

JSTest shows 0 - 19 buttons active, 19 being the PS button, on my PS3 controller. That should mean that "buttons" should be set to 20 I would think (#1 - #20).

Also (and maybe the reason why 19 is enough), these code are all the type 2, pressure sensitive codes that are in the examples. Is there any way in xorg.conf to distinguish to distinguish the type 1 on/off buttons (values 1/0)?

Wow thank for this, it works really well.

I had to do some playing with jscalibrator to prevent the mouse from drifting to the top left (a VERY frustrating problem!) but after a restart of the XServer and some additional manual calibrating the controller works exactly how I want it to.

Do you know of an Xorg.conf config line I can add so that L2 and R2 changes to the next and previous desktops?

Hmm it seems I have to do this on every reboot

Log In
Run JSCalibrator
Save configuration
Restart XServer

A permanent fix would be great

ya im trying to get my six axis to work as a mouse but as soon as i try to get the file to install it says it cant resolve thr ports.ubuntu host name any ideas?

There is no xorg.conf in my Interid install. Should we just make it from scratch? What is xorg using for its configuration?

In Debian/Ubuntu systems there is command dexconf, 'man dexconf':

dexconf(1)

NAME
dexconf - generate Xorg X server configuration file from debconf data

SYNOPSIS
dexconf [ options ]

DESCRIPTION
dexconf retrieves values from debconf(7)'s database and uses them to build an xorg.conf file.

The information that dexconf uses is typically entered via a debconf frontend (or possibly in part by hardware autodetection
tools). Note that dexconf itself does not set any values in the debconf database; it only retrieves them. If configuration
parameters of the debconf database need to be changed, dpkg-reconfigure(8) should be used to do so.

More experienced users should feel free to use dexconf-generated configuration files as a starting point for their customiza-
tions, since individual preferences vary greatly.

OPTIONS
-h, --help
Display a usage message and exit.

-o file, --output=file
By default, dexconf writes to /etc/X11/xorg.conf This option instructs dexconf to write to file instead. Note that dexconf unconditionally overwrites its destination file if it has sufficient access rights to do so.

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khm...
there's nothing in my xorg.conf
Is that bad ??