I tried just plugging the controller in, didn't work. I had it working on the install of kali just before this one and I did nothing to make it work. I've tried with the xpad kernel driver. I removed that and installed the xboxdrv userspace driver. Today, the controller is picked up by lsusb, When I run xboxdrv --silent I get a message that my controller should show in /dev/input/event'x' and js'y' and when I look they tend to be there. Today was different several times they didn't show, or when I jstest /dev/input/event'x' it will return, no such file. After awhile I started getting these messages:
root@samara:/dev/input# jstest event1
Driver version is 0.8.0.
jstest is not fully compatible with your kernel. Unable to retrieve button map!
Joystick (Unknown) has 2 axes and 2 buttons.
Testing ... (interrupt to exit)
jstest: error reading: Invalid argument.
The controller worked well on the last install, I turned off X to install an nvidia driver and was unable to turn it back on, so I reinstalled. Now I wish I looked harder for a solution, well, 20-20 hindsight. Most of what I find to help is Ubuntu help and that might as well be windows help for users of other distros. Hopefully ther is a gamer here who has an idea or two.
