ID 0810:0001 behaves as a mouse, NOT as a game controller

[Member toumbo]

Hey people,

I have Antix 21, 64bit, with modern kernel installed

Im trying to setup retroarch with this psx-like controler

ID 0810:0001 Personal Communication Systems, Inc. Dual PSX Adaptor

I do not have any issue on any mainstream distribution.

Is there any workaround? Does that happen because our distro is non-systemd?

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[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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I’m not trying to push people away.

However I would like you and other people to understand that we do not have a typical distribution here.

This is a specific purpose distribution designed to conserve resources.

If you want to morph your instance to support a particular controller (presumably for games) that is up to you. Is it possible? I’d say yes with this explanation: by the time you make the changes necessary for it to work, which I assert would be possible, on the other hand you really won’t have antiX because you will likely have to change some fundamentals.

Therefore my recommendation is to keep antiX handy as a great, light distribution for resource constrained aging systems and share it with others.

For the system with the game controller use a distribution that emphasizes the ability to work with games or at least the controller you have.

Best wishes always; use different software for different purposes; that’s why there’s so many alternatives available.

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[Moderator caprea]

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Not sure if this helps you, tip from christophe
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/prohibit-gamepad-from-moving-mouse-cursor-in-games/

[Member olsztyn]

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Brian Masinick wrote:

For the system with the game controller use a distribution that emphasizes the ability to work with games or at least the controller you have.

With all my respect, I would not give up on antiX that quickly… What separates antiX from some ‘mainstream distributions’ in addition to being not dependent on systemd, is it not that it might be just missing certain drivers for such game controllers? It is derived from Debian after all, which belongs to ‘mainstream’ distributions…
Just my being optimistic…

Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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If you can get it working without having to replace a few or several antiX components, go for it.

I’m merely suggesting that there are distributions that do this well.

Again, I am not denouncing our distribution; I love what we have. I do, however, use several distributions and each of them is good for certain things.

For example, Debian Sid distribution ‘siduction’ boots and runs faster than anything else I have and works well on my newest computer, whereas antiX doesn’t work out on that particular system.

On some of my oldest systems antiX is practically the only one that works the way I prefer it to be.

MX Linux is great as a general purpose desktop system.

PCLinuxOS is another distribution that’s good for general use. It’s not quite as FAST as siduction and it’s a bit cluttered with software, but it works nicely for many things.

Even the *buntu family, which I’m not a big fan of myself still has many worthwhile use cases; they’re just not the ones I’m interested in.

What my intention is here is to inform people that there are numerous choices for Linux use; that’s why there’s such an abundance of distributions. For me personally I look around from time to time. Don’t worry, antiX is always on my ‘keeper’ list but I am also a supporter of CHOICE.

A lot of free software people have a fit when I say this, but choosing between free and commercial software is ALSO a choice. I use MOSTLY free software, especially now that I am retired, but I do have a phone that has a combination of 100% free stuff and software produced by large companies; it’s my choice to use what is convenient and productive.

That doesn’t keep me from loving both GNU software and other open source software as well as occasionally using commercial tools for specific things.

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[Member olsztyn]

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@ Brian:
Great perspective… Thank you.
I do appreciate some Linux distros too but most others I see as junk, just to show off someone’s wim to create ‘his own’ variation of the same.
Regards.

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[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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These days I have the following distributions in my installed collection:

1) antiX: v19.5 in std. full mode
2) antiX 21 in runit and std.

Most of the time I start with the Base variety, but I do Base and Full.
In the past I always had a Core image; haven’t been doing much with Core recently,

3) MX Linux 21 Wildflower AHS Advanced Hardware Support for the newest hardware, regular edition for my other systems.

4) siduction – I have a copy on both my older Dell Inspiron 5558 laptop and my newer Acer Aspire 5 A515-55 laptop. On the Acer it’s my fastest distribution.

5) Debian Bullseye – I have it installed on my Dell.

6) PCLinuxOS – I have it installed on my Acer; it was PCLinuxOS, openSUSE and Fedora that helped me overcome my initial woe when I first started using UEFI with GPT partitions instead of the old legacy BIOS and DOS style partitions.

Now that I know what I am doing with UEFI I can handle any of these on whatever hardware they’ll support.

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@toumbo, I do not know the answer. But if it related to systemd then you will not be able to use that controller on antiX. But it seems to me that you have other options as you already said you have tried other distros. Maybe another controller will work better on antiX?

I multi-boot a lot, putting antiX on a separate partition or running as frugal. Maybe that will work for you. Maybe MX, or Debian, or some other distro supporting systemd, will work better for using that controller but you can still have antiX on the same machine for when you want to use antiX.

Note, the spelling is antiX.

If it is not related to systemd then you will need to share your system info to get better help.

Seaken64

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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toumbo wrote:

Hey people,

I have Antix 21, 64bit, with modern kernel installed

Im trying to setup retroarch with this psx-like controler

ID 0810:0001 Personal Communication Systems, Inc. Dual PSX Adaptor

I do not have any issue on any mainstream distribution.

Is there any workaround? Does that happen because our distro is non-systemd?

The italicized comment is the reason I mentioned other distributions.

Use those mainstream versions that work – at least for this particular issue.

As Seaken64 wisely said, you can certainly use antiX along with other distributions; in fact, that’s what I do too.

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I’m just curious. 🙂

Did you try this?

caprea wrote:

Not sure if this helps you, tip from christophe
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/prohibit-gamepad-from-moving-mouse-cursor-in-games/

confirmed antiX frugaler, since 2019

[Member toumbo]

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christophe wrote:

I’m just curious. 🙂

Did you try this?

caprea wrote:

Not sure if this helps you, tip from christophe
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/prohibit-gamepad-from-moving-mouse-cursor-in-games/

I did tried it but, to no avail Christophe :/

I tried with that device which was unsuccessful as well!

ID 054c:09cc Sony Corp. DualShock 4 [CUH-ZCT2x]

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[Moderator caprea]

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I wonder if it makes any difference if you put the file from christophe to
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/51-joystick.conf

[Member toumbo]

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I turned to antiX because it’s marketed for “old computers” from Distrowatch site.

I don’t mind what init my computer has, as long as remain alive & kicking despite it’s ooold age.

This community, you, is proved to be very helpful to me. If you have any other distro suggestion, however, I’m interested!

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nVidia G73 [GeForce 7300 GT] [10de:0393]
wlx14cc2016487d: 0bda:8178 Realtek RTL8192CU 802.11n WLAN Adapter ⋮ enp2s0: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 01)

[Member toumbo]

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caprea wrote:

I wonder if it makes any difference if you put the file from christophe to
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/51-joystick.conf

No, my computer does not start X when I do this. I had to remove my file manually with terminal. Fortunatelly no live-cd needed! pheww

You saw that Gentoo dualshock wiki too, eh? :wink wink:

• This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by toumbo.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by toumbo.

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[Moderator caprea]

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No, archwiki for gamepads. Normally /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ is the right place for configurations.

toumbo wrote:

Fortunatelly no live-cd needed!

Pooh !

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