Bug#1035063: please consider enabling joystick support on arm64

[Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <josch@debian.org>]

Source: linux
Version: 6.1.25-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

please consider enabling CONFIG_INPUT_JOYSTICK for the arm64 kernel.

Today I was surprised that plugging my xbox 360 controller into the USB
port of my (arm64) laptop did not just work as it did with the (amd64)
laptop of my partner.

I enabled the following and rebuilt my kernel to make this work:

CONFIG_INPUT_JOYSTICK=y
CONFIG_JOYSTICK_XPAD=m
CONFIG_JOYSTICK_XPAD_FF=y
CONFIG_JOYSTICK_XPAD_LEDS=y

Only the first line is needed as it seems to automatically enable all
the joystick modules. I rebooted and can confirm that I can now finally
play Stardew Valley with my xbox 360 controller on my arm64 laptop.

Please consider enabling this in the official Debian kernel as well.

Thanks!

cheers, josch


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: arm64 (aarch64)
Foreign Architectures: armhf, i386, amd64

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-8-reform2-arm64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled