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 == Links ==
 *[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=218983#p218983 Original discussion]
 *[[Joysticks and Gamepads]]
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	If you have any problems, post on the [[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewforum.php?f=9 Oolite Linux Forum]].		If you have any problems, post on the [[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewforum.php?f=9 Oolite Linux Forum]].
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		+	== Links ==
		+	*[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=218983#p218983 Original discussion]
		+	*[[Joysticks and Gamepads]]

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 . Don't worry about all the stuff about sudo modprobe uinput and changing permissions on /dev/uinput etc.<br><br>
 . Download [[http://www.box.com/shared/koxvusxtap runxboxdrv]], a wrapper I wrote to make using xboxdrv very simple. Hopefully, this will be included in a future release of XBoxDrv.<br><br>
-. Also in the download are an Oolite configuration for xboxdrv: oolite.ini and a key configuration for Oolite to go with it: keyconfig.plist<br><br>
+. Also in the download are an Oolite configuration for xboxdrv: oolite.ini and a key configuration for Oolite to go with it: [[Oolite_Keyboard_Controls|keyconfig.plist]]<br><br>
 . Extract them to your home folder and move keyconfig.plist to ~/.Oolite/Addons<br><br>
 . Make runxboxdrv executable:

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 . Install [[http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/xboxdrv/ XBoxDrv]] - for Ubuntu there is a binary package. Installation instructions are [[http://github.com/Grumbel/xboxdrv/blob/master/README here]].<br><br>
 . Don't worry about all the stuff about sudo modprobe uinput and changing permissions on /dev/uinput etc.<br><br>
-. Download [[http://www.box.net/shared/koxvusxtap runxboxdrv]], a wrapper I wrote to make using xboxdrv very simple. Hopefully, this will be included in a future release of XBoxDrv.<br><br>
+. Download [[http://www.box.com/shared/koxvusxtap runxboxdrv]], a wrapper I wrote to make using xboxdrv very simple. Hopefully, this will be included in a future release of XBoxDrv.<br><br>
 . Also in the download are an Oolite configuration for xboxdrv: oolite.ini and a key configuration for Oolite to go with it: keyconfig.plist<br><br>
 . Extract them to your home folder and move keyconfig.plist to ~/.Oolite/Addons<br><br>

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 == Setting up a Joystick or Gamepad in Oolite ==
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-Linux distributions such as Ubuntu Lucid have many joystick and gamepad drivers built in. While they work out of the box, they offer limited configurability. Here I will outline a better alternative which gives far greater configurability for all controllers. For XBox controllers, the alternative works irrespective of whether your Linux distribution includes XBox controller support.<br><br>
+Linux distributions, nowadays, have many joystick and gamepad drivers built in. However, even if they work out of the box, they offer limited configuration options. An alternative to the xpad kernel driver is the [[http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/xboxdrv/ XBoxDrv]]. It is a user-space driver, giving a variety of configuration options for all controllers. For XBox controllers, this alternative works without the need of having a Linux distribution with XBox controller support.<br><br>
-The instructions below describe how to set up a userspace driver called xboxdrv for use with an XBox 360 controller. The author of xboxdrv has extended it to also work with non-XBox controllers, so if anyone tries this with a non-XBox controller and gets it to work, please expand this wiki page with any information helpful to others trying to do the same. (xboxdrv author wrote: support for reading from evdev, this allows the use of regular PC joysticks or the Playstation 3 controllers with xboxdrv, useful if you need configurability or joy2key-like functionality, but don't have a Xbox360 gamepad.)<br><br>
+The instructions below describe how to set up XBoxDrv for use with an XBox 360 controller on Ubuntu Lucid, nevertheless, the XBoxDrv author has extended it to also work with non-XBox controllers. If anyone gets it to work with a non-XBox controller, feel free to expand this wiki page with any information helpful to others trying to do the same.<br>
 . Install [[http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/xboxdrv/ XBoxDrv]] - for Ubuntu there is a binary package. Installation instructions are [[http://github.com/Grumbel/xboxdrv/blob/master/README here]].<br><br>

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 . Also in the download are an Oolite configuration for xboxdrv: oolite.ini and a key configuration for Oolite to go with it: keyconfig.plist<br><br>
 . Extract them to your home folder and move keyconfig.plist to ~/.Oolite/Addons<br><br>
-. Make runxboxdrv executable eg. chmod +x ~/runxboxdrv<br><br>
+. Make runxboxdrv executable:
-. Run from a menu icon or shell using: ~/runxboxdrv --config=~/oolite.ini /usr/bin/oolite<br><br>
+ $ chmod +x ~/runxboxdrv
 . The only joystick setup needed in Oolite is to set up the axes. The left hand analog stick left-right should be roll. The right hand stick is up, down, left, right.<br><br>
 . Open oolite.ini in a text editor to see the mappings of everything else. Descriptions of the option names can be found at [[http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/xboxdrv/xboxdrv.html xboxdrv manpage]]<br><br>

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 . The left shoulder button acts like a shift key and effectively almost doubles the number of buttons.<br><br>
-If you have any problems, post on the [[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewforum.php?f=3 Forums]].
+If you have any problems, post on the [[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewforum.php?f=9 Oolite Linux Forum]].
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