Enabling the native controller support

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Enabling the native controller support - NoTarget - 9th Mar, 2013 11:50 PM

Hey guys,

is it somehow possible to enable the official Frodo gamepad support in xbian?
I can't find this configuration point in the latest release:
http://www.abload.de/img/gamepadbhbot.png

greetings NoTarget

RE: Enabling the native controller support - Koenkk - 9th Mar, 2013 11:59 PM

We are already on it, see: https://github.com/xbianonpi/xbian/issues/315#issuecomment-14663317

RE: Enabling the native controller support - NoTarget - 10th Mar, 2013 12:03 AM

Nice! What do you think, how long it's going to take for a release with this function enabled?

Enabling the native controller support - Koenkk - 10th Mar, 2013 12:27 AM

My pi is already compiling xbmc with SDL and joystick support, if nothing goes wrong, it will be in the xbmc-nightly/Frodo git within a few hours - 8 hours. Just keep an eye on that github issue Wink

Instructions on how to install it will also be posted there.

RE: Enabling the native controller support - Koenkk - 10th Mar, 2013 11:21 PM

Updated : https://github.com/xbianonpi/xbian/issues/315#issuecomment-14663317

RE: Enabling the native controller support - NoTarget - 10th Mar, 2013 11:35 PM

Already installing it. Thanks guys for the great support!

Got an error after installing the nightly, when i want to start XBMC.

"/usr/local/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

i tried it 2 times. After the restore from the backup everything is fine.

Enabling the native controller support - Koenkk - 11th Mar, 2013 01:02 AM

Looks like a missing library, wil look into it

RE: Enabling the native controller support - NoTarget - 11th Mar, 2013 02:50 AM

Waiting for a working release so bad. Somthing i can do on my own?

RE: Enabling the native controller support - CurlyMo - 11th Mar, 2013 02:57 AM

(11th Mar, 2013 02:50 AM)NoTarget Wrote: Waiting for a working release so bad. Somthing i can do on my own?

Donating enough so we can develop full-time Wink

RE: Enabling the native controller support - Koenkk - 11th Mar, 2013 04:08 AM

(10th Mar, 2013 11:35 PM)NoTarget Wrote: Already installing it. Thanks guys for the great support!

Got an error after installing the nightly, when i want to start XBMC.

"/usr/local/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

i tried it 2 times. After the restore from the backup everything is fine.

Execute

Code:

sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2debian

RE: Enabling the native controller support - NoTarget - 11th Mar, 2013 04:27 AM

Code:

xbian@Raspi ~/xbmc-nightly $ sudo service xbmc start

xbian@Raspi ~/xbmc-nightly $ commandline read: xbmc.bin

commandline read: --standalone

   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| DirectFB 1.2.10 |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

        (c) 2001-2008  The world wide DirectFB Open Source Community

        (c) 2000-2004  Convergence (integrated media) GmbH

      ----------------------------------------------------------------

(*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2012-06-01 00:48)

(!) Direct/Util: opening '/dev/fb0' failed

    --> Permission denied

(!) DirectFB/FBDev: Error opening framebuffer device!

(!) DirectFB/FBDev: Use 'fbdev' option or set FRAMEBUFFER environment variable.

(!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'system_core' core!

    --> Initialization error!

ERROR: Unable to create GUI. Exiting

(!) [ 6091:    0.000] --> Caught signal 11 (at (nil), invalid address) <--

RE: Enabling the native controller support - Koenkk - 11th Mar, 2013 04:43 AM

Can you start XBMC with

Code:

sudo /usr/local/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin

The issue is that the xbian user doesn't have permission to /dev/fb0, root does. @CurlyMo can you help us out on this one?

Some progress

Code:

sudo usermod -a -G video xbian

But still an error in the xbmc.log

Code:

14:54:10 T:3032182784  NOTICE: Setup SDL

14:54:10 T:3032182784   FATAL: XBAppEx: Unable to initialize SDL: Unable to open a console terminal

RE: Enabling the native controller support - CurlyMo - 11th Mar, 2013 05:05 AM

I don't think these kind of framebuffer routes is a good idea. That's why XBMC has a custom implementation for the RPi in which they don't directly use the framebuffer.

RE: Enabling the native controller support - Koenkk - 11th Mar, 2013 05:08 AM

That means SDL is a no go for us?

RE: Enabling the native controller support - CurlyMo - 11th Mar, 2013 05:25 AM

I think there are some things crossing each other:
1) Our wayland + XBMC experimentation for which we need an SDL
2) Our current (default RPi) XBMC implementation which uses the video driver directly

If you are trying to achieve the first one, then you will probably run into a lot of difficulties. I still would like to test the first build here. If you are trying to add an SDL to the second option then you're indeed doing some wierd things because the whole point of a fluent XBMC for the RPi at this moment is it is built so it can run without the X display driver and SDL.