Getting a functional driver for Mad Catz Fightstick TE 2 (Xbox One version)

[Silvan Jegen]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 11:35:26AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 08:15:26PM +0100, Silvan Jegen wrote:
> > Heyho
> > 
> > I bought a Mad Catz Fightstick TE2 for Xbox One because I wanted to play
> > some fighting games on Linux. I chose this stick because it has gotten good
> > reviews and I assumed that the Kernel driver should work because there are
> > already drivers for Xbox One controllers in drivers/input/joystick/xpad.c.
> > 
> > It turns out that the driver does not work and dmesg just shows
> > 
> > [12293.077720] usb 1-1.2.1: new full-speed USB device number 9 using ehci-pci
> > 
> > when plugging it in. Simply adding the line
> > 
> > { 0x0738, 0x4a01, "Mad Catz FightStick TE 2", 0, XTYPE_XBOXONE },
> > 
> > (where the two Hex values are VENDOR_ID and PRODUCT_ID) to xpad_device[]
> > in xpad.c does not help either (which I naively hoped it would).
> 
> Try asking this on the linux-input at vger.kernel.org mailing list, the
> developers there should be able to help you out better than this one
> can.

Thanks, I will try that! I had a look at the mail archive of linux-input
before sending this one and thought the question may be too newbish...


Cheers,

Silvan