Mouse mini-stick as additional axes?
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Hi,
One quick question.
Is it possible to define mini-stick as additional axes?
I'm playing Elite Dangerous and it would be great to be able to define mini-stick as analogue lateral thrust control.
That's an interesting thought. Can you give the kernel module a try for now? It maps the mouse stick to ABS_TILT_X and ABS_TILT_Y, so it may get detected as an additional axis.
I've quickly recompiled fresh version and, according to evtest, it is still detected ABS_THUMBY and ABS_THUMBX
Also, I tried in game, with and without mouse option enabled, it is not registering any movement as axis.
Hmm, can you confirm the output of lsmod and uname -a? If you build the kernel module against your kernel (just cd to the kernel_module directory and run make), and insmod it, it should change the axis reported by the kernel driver.
The default kernel driver will report the mouse stick as ABS_MISC and ABS_MISC+1, which ED may not support.
Also, it appears that you are using x52evtest, that is just decoding the raw report from the joystick - it doesn't change anything from the kernel, while ED is probably reading it from the kernel instead. You want to use evtest, this is a system utility that will read the events from the kernel.
I'm on 5.16 kernel (Debian Sid)
5.16.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 5.16.7-2 (2022-02-09) x86_64 GNU/Linux
OK, partial success.
After insmoding it, I was able to assign X axis and it works quite nicely, but it is recognized in game as slider above mouse stick.
Y axis is not recognized at all.
evtest.txt
Oh, and if it will be of any use, here is evtest before insmod.
As you can see, Y axis is (not)recognized as "?"
evtes-before_insmodt.txt
Hmm, I don't know how ED is mapping the axes, I don't play it myself. It seems like the kernel module is doing the right thing - but ED is not recognizing the axes. Another thing I've found is that if you are launching ED through Steam, then Steam may be mapping the controller in a different way, so you may want to try disabling Steam's controller logic.
I did disable Steam Controllers, but it appears it is ED thing.
Never mind, it was just an idea.
I'll close this issue now.
Feel free to play around with the reporting in the kernel module. It may just be that ED recognizes a different set of axes than what the kernel module reports. Here are the known axes from the kernel:
ABS_X
ABS_Y
ABS_Z
ABS_RX
ABS_RY
ABS_RZ
ABS_THROTTLE
ABS_RUDDER
ABS_WHEEL
ABS_GAS
ABS_BRAKE
ABS_HAT0X
ABS_HAT0Y
ABS_HAT1X
ABS_HAT1Y
ABS_HAT2X
ABS_HAT2Y
ABS_HAT3X
ABS_HAT3Y
ABS_PRESSURE
ABS_DISTANCE
ABS_TILT_X
ABS_TILT_Y
ABS_TOOL_WIDTH
ABS_VOLUME
ABS_MISC
It's likely that ABS_PRESSURE, ABS_DISTANCE, ABS_TOOL_WIDTH and ABS_VOLUME may not be helpful, but the others might be a good set to try.