Comment 14 for bug 124743

Most of the guides out there are for old versions of bluez (3.x). I have applied the patch from Fedora and made a debdiff against the version in oneiric. With this patch applied, all I need to do is plug the controller in via USB once for the pairing, then unplug and use the PS button to connect. Note this is gamepad only, no rumble or accelerometer support. I haven't reviewed the guts of the patch (I assume the Fedora devs have); I'm only responsible for the packaging.

My main reference was http://www.netswarm.net/sixaxis-support/

Note there's a brainstorm for this: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/3232