Comment 58 for bug 365435

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Dr. Clock (alittleknowhow) wrote : Re: [Bug 365435] Fix included in openstack/tacker 0.5.0

I also want to say that I think you guys have done a spectacular job with
Ubuntu.

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 6:09 AM, Kenneth Ray Smith II <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> I also want to say that I don't want that comment removed. I think it was
> a good comment.
>
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 6:07 AM, Kenneth Ray Smith II <
> <email address hidden>> wrote:
>
>> Yes, I know. In fact I was using Lucid Lynx which also works with the
>> xbox 360 wireless receiver and controller. And the reason this happened
>> with the version of Ubuntu I was using at the time of writing this was when
>> I had moved on to Jaunty I didn't know not to install xpad360 or what ever
>> file that people were saying to install to get it to work, but I didn't
>> know that Jaunty actually didn't need xpad360 to be installed because it
>> had it setup to have the xbox 360 controller and wireless receiver work out
>> of the box which is why the xbox 360 controller and wireless receiver was
>> acting like the mouse because xpad360(what ever it was called) because i
>> had installed that. It was a temporary fix for xbox 360 controller and
>> wireless receiver for the Ubuntu version before Jaunty.
>>
>> I never got around to testing to see if the xbox 360 controller and
>> wireless receiver worked out of the box, but I know it works with Lucid
>> Lynx:
>> https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=570642&page=17&s=2
>> 84d5642056f9fc3afa32bf9fc0726e1
>>
>> Do you want me to make sure that Gutsy Gibbons, Jaunty, and Intrepid all
>> work with the xbox 360 controller and wireless receiver worked out of the
>> box?,
>> If so it will take some time, plus after the Ubuntu forums crisis I never
>> did try to log back into my Ubuntu forums Dr. Clock profile, so I don't
>> know if I can even edit that last comment, but I was really trying to help
>> people out even though I was a newbie, and I am somewhat proud of what I
>> was about to do even though it was so little, because I didn't know how to
>> fix the hard drive troubles I was having at the time and so forth.
>>
>> Quote from me:
>> "I just found out that my xbox 360 wireless controller and receiver works
>> out of the box with Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, or at least it worked for me out of
>> the box. Of coarse for each emulator my controller will need to be
>> configured, but that's a given. Eventually I will test some Ubuntu distros
>> as to whether the usual xbox 360 wireless controller and receiver work out
>> of the box. These will be the Ubuntu distros I will eventually test my xbox
>> 360 wireless controllers with:
>> Gutsy Gibbons, Jaunty, and Intrepid.
>>
>> Ubuntu Hardy Heron doesn't work out of the box, so the downloadable
>> driver that Nicole posted at the beginnning of this thread will need to be
>> installed with Hardy Heron.
>>
>> Ubuntu Lucid Lynx appears to working for my xbox 360 wireless controller
>> out of the box.
>>
>> Also the blinking lights still blink, and I don't know if the triggers
>> that were said not to work work or not."
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 3:03 AM, OpenStack Infra <
>> <email address hidden>> wrote:
>>
>>> This issue was fixed in the openstack/tacker 0.5.0 release.
>>>
>>> --
>>> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
>>> report.
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/365435
>>>
>>> Title:
>>> xbox 360 wireless controller acts like curser or mouse.
>>>
>>> Status in Ubuntu:
>>> Fix Released
>>>
>>> Bug description:
>>> First off go here to see how the code for how someone made code to
>>> make the xbox 360 wireless controller work:
>>>
>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=570642&page=7
>>>
>>> I am the Dr. Clock as shown on that thread, and organized how to make
>>> it work,
>>>
>>> but for some reason although it works on Ubuntu Hardy Heron,
>>>
>>> it doesn't work on Ubuntu Intrepid and the Ubuntu Beta of Jaunty.
>>>
>>> Instead the xbox 360 wireless controller acts like the mouse, but will
>>> only go the full circle of the screen
>>>
>>> and not into the corners of the screen.
>>>
>>> Here are some more links on this bug:
>>>
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-
>>> joystick/+bug/273364
>>>
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/273364
>>>
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-
>>> evdev/+bug/284951
>>>
>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-
>>> <email address hidden>/msg1051330.html
>>>
>>>
>>> I understand if you guys can't get it fixed before Jaunty is released,
>>>
>>> but it would be nice if when you guys fix it to put that in an update.
>>>
>>>
>>> I am sorry and just don't know enough to help you out on this,
>>>
>>> I've never even filed a bug report before, but I am sure this is
>>> something a lot of people will want fixed,
>>>
>>> but what ever. Thank god I have Ubuntu Hardy Heron on CD,
>>>
>>> I may never upgrade from Hardy Heron.
>>>
>>> O, well, take care.
>>>
>>> ProblemType: Bug
>>> Architecture: i386
>>> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
>>> ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
>>> NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
>>> Package: synaptic 0.62.1ubuntu10
>>> ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
>>> ProcEnviron:
>>> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbi
>>> n:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
>>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>>> SHELL=/bin/bash
>>> SourcePackage: synaptic
>>> Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686
>>>
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