Callibrating a Joystick

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Hello there!

I recently decided to give linux gaming another try, killed my Win11 installation, installed Manjaro and here I am.

At the moment I only play X4 Foundations and I just discovered that callibrating a joystick in 2025 is somewhat impossible for me.

X4 seems to use evdev, and I really am at a loss here.
What I tried so far:
Reading the Arch Wiki, which sadly does not say anything about callibrating in 2.2.4 evdev API deadzones and calibration.

I installed evdev-joystick-calibration from Github.
The script runs fine, but I don’t know what to do with the output because I don’t understand the udev rule syntax.

Any help would be appreciated

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there should be a gamepad calibration option inside steam,
or what you need is something specific to your joystic or game?

sorry i can’t help.

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I have no experience with joysticks under Linux sry, but uninstall windows before you not warm with Linux, is a really bad experience.

A slow progession (dual boot) is recommend here.

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You could try jstest-gtk-git from the AUR, which is a graphical tool.

BTW: What is the exact model of the stick?

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My exact model is a Cyborg 3d USB.
Quote from Arch wiki:
Linux has two different input systems for gamepads – the original Joystick interface and the newer evdev-based interface.
Jstest is for the older Joystick interface.

I do have some 30years of getting warm with linux, just did not use it much for the last years.

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In this case try evtest-qt by the same guy (Grumbel) who wrote jstest-gtk and check out this website mentioning this tool and the same joystick model:
https://technicallycompetent.com/joysticks-linux-joydev-evdev/

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