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  1. Bug #124743 (sixaxis)
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 124743

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Francisco Athens (freelikegnu) wrote : Re: Sony Sixaxis Controller does not work over bluetooth in Feisty

I tested in Tribe 4 Gutsy Xubuntu and it appears to be working well now.

connect the sixaxis via USB
compile and run sixpair from
http://www.pabr.org/sixlinux/sixlinux.en.html

then disconnect the sixaxis from usb

follow instructions from above site to pair and connect.
I had to run sudo:

$ sudo hidd --server --nocheck -n
press the clear middle clear button on the sixaxis
and you should get something like:
hidd[8332]: Bluetooth HID daemon
hidd[8332]: New HID device 00:19:C1:xx:xx:xx (Sony Computer Entertainment Wireless Controller)

then this may not be necessary:
$ sudo modprobe joydev

get a nice calibration program

$sudo apt-get install jscalibrator
$jscalibrator

you should see the program respond to the sixaxis from bluetooth! Calibrate and save then try using zsnes. Zsnes seems to behave nicely with this joypad now.

Thanks for making this work!!!