Joystick Dragonrise Axes confused in Ubuntu 14.04

[turtlepurple]

In Ubuntu 14.04 axis 2 (left-right of the right joystick) is hardly working.

Its conflicting and superimposed by axis 0 (left-right of the left joystick)

Axis 2 was allready behaving bad in eralier versions now its completly broken.

Also jscal complains when applying stored settings from earlier ubuntu versions as the joystick now has 6 axes [0-5] and used to have 7, but this seems correct.

The Dragonrise chip seems to be very widespread among different speedlink and LinQ models

There is a related bugreport in Debian Bug-Tracker: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=785606
that makes

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug is missing log files that will aid in diagnosing the problem. From a terminal window please run:

apport-collect 1564463

and then change the status of the bug to 'Confirmed'.

If, due to the nature of the issue you have encountered, you are unable to run this command, please add a comment stating that fact and change the bug status to 'Confirmed'.

This change has been made by an automated script, maintained by the Ubuntu Kernel Team.

[Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury)]

Did this issue start happening after an update/upgrade? Was there a prior kernel version where you were not having this particular problem?

Would it be possible for you to test the latest upstream kernel? Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Please test the latest v4.6 kernel[0].

If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following tag 'kernel-fixed-upstream'.

If the mainline kernel does not fix this bug, please add the tag: 'kernel-bug-exists-upstream'.

Once testing of the upstream kernel is complete, please mark this bug as "Confirmed".

Thanks in advance.

[0] http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.6-rc1-wily/

[Florent Rougon (f-rougon)]

Hello,

I am not an Ubuntu user, but I reported the Debian bug and identified the upstream commit that made it appear (79346d620e9de87912de73337f6df8b7f9a46888, see <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=785606> for all details).

I am writing here to inform you that the bug appears to be fixed upstream. At least, I had success with kernels 4.5.4 and 4.5.5. It is likely that the first fixed version is lower than 4.5.4, I just tested these ones recently as well as 4.3.3 which has the bug.

It is still unclear why the bug disappeared, because the lines introduced by commit 79346d620e9de87912de73337f6df8b7f9a46888 are still there. I think a possible reason could be that recent kernels maybe use a code path that doesn't go through these lines for the DragonRise joypad, but this is just a wild guess.

Regards

[penalvch (penalvch)]

turtlepurple, please execute the following command only once, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:
apport-collect 1564463

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

[Florent Rougon (f-rougon)]

It seems the bug was fixed by this upstream commit:

commit 18339f59c3a6698ee17d32970c9e1e450b16e7c3
Author: Maciej Zuk
Date: Thu Sep 3 21:46:39 2015 +0200

    HID: dragonrise: fix HID Descriptor for 0x0006 PID

    Fixed HID descriptor for DragonRise Joystick. Replaced default descriptor
    which doubles Z axis and causes mixing values of X and Z axes.

This means the first release incorporating the fix is v4.4 (v4.4-rc1 already contains it).

[Konstantinos Kontodimas (kontodimask)]

Hello there, I'm using Ubuntu 18.10 (Linux 4.18.0) and I don't know why but the issue still exists. I use a GameCube USB gamepad recognized as a Dragonrise Generic USB controller (2 analog sticks, 1 digital D-pad and 8 buttons). In jstest the stick/axis assignments is as follows:
* axis-0: horizontal axis of left stick
* axis-1: vertical axis of left stick
* axis-2: horizontal axis of right stick
* axis-3: vertical axis of right stick
* axis-4: unused
* axis-5: unused
In my case axis-0 conflicts with axis-2, i.e. moving horizontally the left stick affects both axis-0 and axis-2, while moving horizontally the right stick causes mostly undefined reads in axis-2.

[Kai-Heng Feng (kaihengfeng)]

Similar to #1793846?

[Konstantinos Kontodimas (kontodimask)]

Yes it's similar but the gamepad is different, despite the fact that they both are recognized as 0079:0006. I tried the suggested solution with the kernel parameter "usbhid.quirks=0x0079:0x0006:0x100000", but it didn't work.

[Konstantinos Kontodimas (kontodimask)]

Oh it worked after all! It just needed recalibration since the axes are mapped differently now. Thank you very much for your reply kaihengfeng.

[Ewok2 (ewok2)]

Hello
I am using ubuntu 20.04 and it seem's still not working
When I plug a gamepad recognized as DragonRise Inc
with sdl-jstest when I move the :
left stick vertical : axe 1 move
left stick horizontal : axe0 and axe2 move together
right stick vertical : axe 2 move and bouton0 is set to 1
right stick horizontal: bouton1 is set to 1 when move to left ; bouton3 is set to 1 when move to right

any idee to solve the problem ?
Thanks

[Guilherme (guiaqui23)]

Hello,
I sadly can confirm that this issue still do exist.
Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
Linux version 6.1.12-x64v3-xanmod1
The axis 2 is bounded to horizontal movement in left stick and vertical movement in right stick.