EDIT: I had some good results by making sure Vice is started first and only then the PS3 controller is connected. This makes sure Vice does not detect the mouse. Still fiddling with the "disable-mouse" button mapping in the .fdi file, to make this more configurable (as that seems to be the culprit).

Thanks Smoku for making the package work ! Now for my question: I am trying to get Vice to work with the sixaxis, and I am facing a problem someone else also had (see Vice thread): some keys and the controller itself (accelerometer) seem to make Vice show the menu. Most notably the right-cursor and the O key do this. The accelerometer actually works as a mouse, moving up/down through the menu.

I checked the .fdi file a bit, but did not find a quick way to disable this behaviour, let alone have an explanation why this would be happening in the first place. Some googling revealed that on Ubuntu, the joystick driver seems to emulate a mouse and causes trouble this way. It looks like this may be one of my problems. The suggestion there was to use evdev instead, but surely this does not work on the n900.

Questions:
* did anyone figure out a way to disable accelerometers yet ?
* did anyone figure out a way to disable the mouse behaviour completely ?

I will try to figure it out myself, but needless to say that I don't want to do the job twice ;=)

Thanks,

Sander