Re: [Xbox-linux-user] usb-xboxir module

[Marko F. <mar...@in...>]

Zitat von Sandro Padin <sp...@co...>:

> Hi, I've been having trouble with my IR Remote. Everytime I press it, while
> running Debian, the mouse pointer tries to go either to the left or the
> right side of the screen. I read an earlier post where the person had the

Yes. This bug is known. xpad (and obviously xpad-mouse too) fail to tell the
kernel that they are not really responsible for the ir dongle. Depending on the
order the kernel probes the different drivers you end up having xpad-mouse
servicing the ir dongle, resulting in the behaviour you observed.

> same problem and the reply was to recompile the module, but I'm not sure
> how I would go about doing that. Can someone tell me which files I need and
> how to compile them?

Your best bet is to go with the latest xpad driver from CVS, either the one from
the main branch (1.10/0.1.1) or the one that is tagged xpad-procfs-testing
(1.10.2.2/0.1.2).
Both already include mouse support, the latter allows you to activate it
statically via modprobe options and dynamically via xpadd.

You need at least xpad.c, if you want to try the 0.1.2 version then you need
xpad.h, too. To compile them either insert them into a kernel source tree,
configure that and 'make modules modules_install' or compile it outside of the
kernel tree. That is easier (and faster), but you need a configured kernel
source tree nevertheless plus you need a Makefile for that to work. You could
grab the appropriate Makefile from any of the xpad archives at
 http://www.bmx-chemnitz.de/Zeugs/

If someone puts up Ivans patch you could get a vanilla 2.4.20 kernel instead,
apply the patch (one single big diff that contains all changes and hopefully a
new xpad version, too) and compile the beast.

Pick your choice.

Marko
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