Has anyone gotten a Sony PS3 Controller Working?

Question

Hey,
I've been reading that the PS3 controller works in Linux.  Unfortunately, I haven't had much luck.  I don't have much joystick experience (that sounds bad) and I'm just following the directions in the wiki article.  They don't seem to help here.  I modprobe usbhid, joydev, and analog.  I'm thinking analog is the wrong one to load.  There is, however, a /dev/input/js0.  lsusb returns something like this
Bus 005 Device 006: ID 0781:7460 SanDisk Corp.
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 054c:0174 Sony Corp.
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0bc2:3000 Seagate RSS LLC
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 054c:0268 Sony Corp.
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
So I'm guessing it sees something.  At least I think it might; my computer is a sony product so maybe it sees something else.  So where I'm at, I try to play some game and see if it works... and it... doesn't.
I did install the joystick package in the repositories.  I tried installing the joyutils in the AUR but returned errors about a version number (the package is supposedly out of date).
Does anyone have experience with this?  Please let me know!

Answer 1

Alright, I found that I need to put the controller into "operational mode" by "adding a  USBhid quirk" 
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/g … 6a0391b964
I recognize that people may not know anything about the PS3 controller but would you know how I might go about this?
Last edited by eljoeb (2007-12-12 14:54:30)