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I went through all the steps manually, and it first kept bringing up
"
Accept connection with device?
PLAYSTATION(R)3 Controller
"

Now it stopped asking me and the bluetooth icon is blue, but all 4 lights are still flashing on the controller and it does not seem to accept input from the controller.

Ideas?

Well its not really meant to be noob friendly - this is well into hacker territory and I think was posted more as a proof of concept as opposed to a nice point and click package.

Please keep in mind the kernel flashing requirement is due to the fact that the default kernel does not support this functionality and you cant force a kernel to do something is not compiled for, no matter how much you want to.

Smoku, after reading all 15 pages of this post, you convinced me to subcribe and I am writing my first post dedicated to you

First of all, HUGE props to what you have accomplished. This is exactly what I've been waiting for ever since I got my N900 months ago.

But unfortunately, I do not know anything about Linux... I am and have always been a full Windows-PC customer, and I am very comfortable with DOS. My very first experience with Linux has in fact been with the N900's terminal, and as it is quite interresting, I find it very dangerous so I rather not play too much on it.
But reading posts like:
does not make me very comfortable :S

I have read your website (the tomasz.sterna one) and basically my issue is... I don't quite understand the 0. Set-up the controller part... I obviously do not possess a Linux-PC so i am lost in this first step...

My one and only question is... Could you point us windows-folk in the right direction? I am not a total noob, I do work for IBM, and consider myself fairly comfortable in IT, but Linux... is another world for me :S

Thanks in advance, and again, big respect for your work

how???

puffo, i have the exact same symptoms as you... have you made any progress? Smoku, we're stuck! Can you help us?

Do we need to manually install or run sixaxisd? I thought that the sixad package took care of all that.

I tried to run sixaxisd manually and got this error:
sixaxisd: can't bind to psm 17: Address already in use

so I assume it's already running. I'm out of ideas...

Ok. I am pretty new at Linux, but i have gotten pretty far so i will help to get where I got, and then ask the question at the end.

First to install the kernel update:
On the N900 Browse to: http://tomasz.sterna.tv/2010/02/play...is-controller/

and click the Green Arrow to Install (its okay if it gives "3rd party app policy") -- this is just to add Smoku's App Repository.

next on the N900, open a terminal session (alt+ctrl+x)

~ $ sudo gainroot
....
/home/user # apt-get install sixaxis-support

now say yes to every dialog that appears

once its done, do a normal power off, reboot.


If you haven't already program the PS3 controller with your N900's bluetooth MAC Address (must do this from a desktop PC running linux, or a VM that supports device pass through to a linux vm - VMware Workstation 7 with Debian worked perfectly for me)

I just downloaded Smoku's precompiled version, did the following:

user@Debian-VM:~/Desktop/Downloads$ chmod 777 sixpair
(no idea if this is required)

then:
user@Debian-VM:~/Desktop/Downloads$ ./sixpair C0:38:F9:A6:ff:ff
No controller found on USB busses.
(without controller connected)

user@Debian-VM:~/Desktop/Downloads$ ./sixpair C0:38:F9:A6:ff:ff
usb_claim_interface: Operation not permitted
(not enough access)

then finally (trial and error is how I learn I guess :P )
user@Debian-VM:~/Desktop/Downloads$ sudo ./sixpair C0:38:F9:A6:ff:ff
[sudo] password for user:
Current Bluetooth master: 00:24:33:09:ff:ff
Setting master bd_addr to c0:38:f9:a6:ff:ff

Alright, at this point the PS3 controller is going to look for the N900 when PS button is pressed.

Enable Bluetooth on the n900, and press the PS button, after a few seconds the bluetooth icon will turn blue, and a few seconds later the four lights on the PS3 controller will settle to 1 of the 4.



once this is done -- I believe the controller should work, and this is where I am stuck.

jstest /dev/input/js0 -- does show the input from the PS3 controller but none of the commands from the PS3 appear to make it any further then that, -- no keyboard mappings at least.

So Smoku, PLEASE HELP!

think ill stick with my WiiMote until this works and is easy(er) to do

f2thak, is the problem you are having with programming the PS3 controller with the N900 Bluetooth mac address?

any easy solution maybe to download whats called a linux 'Live CD'

basically a live cd is a full linux setup that runs of the cd/dvd - so you dont have to mess up your windows stuff (i run windows like you)

with the live cd if its able to get to the internet you can download the sixpair that Smoku compiled and connect the PS3 controller to the pc and program the Mac Address of your n900 to the controller.

If you are wanting to do this, I am sure a lot of people here will try to help.

probably the easiest is ubuntu - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD

http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras/3rd_Party_Package_Policy - makes sense

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