NAME

hgame — Generic HID game controller (joystick/gamepad) driver

SYNOPSIS

To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:

Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

hgame_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

The hgame driver provides support for generic game controllers (joysticks/gamepads) that attach to the HID transport backend. See iichid(4) or usbhid(4).

The /dev/input/event* device presents the game controller as a evdev type device.

SYSCTL VARIABLES

The following variable is available as both sysctl(8) variable and loader(8) tunable:

dev.hgame.X.debug

Debug output level, where 0 is debugging disabled and larger values increase debug message verbosity. Default is 0.

It's default value is set with loader(8) tunable:

hw.hid.hgame.debug

 

FILES

/dev/input/event*

input event device node.

SEE ALSO

iichid(4), usbhid(4)

HISTORY

The hgame driver first appeared in FreeBSD 13.0.

AUTHORS

The hgame driver was written by Val Packett <val@packett.cool>.

This manual page was written by Vladimir Kondratyev <wulf@FreeBSD.org>.