keypress is detected as release and vice versa

[Jose Riha]

compiled fine but pressing the button is translated into key_release event, releasing it is translated into key_press event. any idea why this happens?

[Leonardo Gomes]

well, it's been a long time since I've messed around with this project so I'm not sure what the problem could be.

did you configure it to your pad? is it detecting the pad event wrong or sending the wrong keyboard event?

[Jose Riha]

the pad detection (wizard) seems to go fine - except that the up <--> down and left <--> right are reversed. this is easy to fix in the config file though. the expectation is that when i press left, "a" (in wasd mode) appears in an application window (and after a while autorepeat activates). currently the situation looks like this:

• axisfix is invoked
• i press left, nothing happens
• i release left and get an a, followed by many aaaaaaaaa in succession as a result of autorepeat
• i press left and a's stop

this is on an up-to-date arch linux x86_64 with speedlink dancepad.

[Leonardo Gomes]

does calibrating the pad's "axis" using a tool such as jstest-gtk (jstest-gtx-git on AUR) before configuring the pad with axisfix change anything? if not, can you also send me the output of jstest (from the joyutils package) for whenever you press up/down/left/right?

on a side note: reading through Arch wiki I saw this, which seems to be easier than my tool, does it solve your problem?

[Jose Riha]

thank you for the tip about calibration. indeed the generated config file looks differently before and after calibration:

$ sdiff -s noncalibrated calibrated 
vert_middle = 0						      |	vert_middle = 255
hor_middle = 0						      |	hor_middle = 255

But what's more important: it does not suffer from "stickiness" anymore once calibrated. xpad module did not help me at all. Closing.