HDAPS joystick

Downloading driver

We are going to download the sources and module assistant to take care of the installation.

apt-get install tp-smapi-source module-assistant

Installing driver

Module assistant will download kernel headers and any utilities needed to compile.

m-a a-i tp-smapi

Loading driver

We are going to load one by one in verbose.

modprobe -v thinkpad_ec

modprobe -v hdaps

Checking driver

Start the command and move your laptop. It will show you X and Y coordinates belonging to axis 0 and 1

while true; do cat /sys/devices/platform/hdaps/position ; sleep 1; done