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Need help with calibrating your gamepad sticks
Vochatrak-az-ezm Feb 23, 2021
My gamepad has a loose joint. Can someone explain how to set up the dead zone and maximum deviation range in xboxdrv? (need a dead zone of about 30% and a maximum range of 25000)
Thank you in advance.
Mnoleg Feb 24, 2021
I gave up on xboxdrv after reading this:
https://gitlab.com/xboxdrv/xboxdrv/-/issues/248

I am sorry because that's probably not the answer you expected, but that post helped me and it may help others. There's a lot of obsolete information about xboxdrv around that causes confusion.

I don't own an xbox gamepad, so I was looking for the remap features. Now I'm using the SDL2 Gamepad Tool, with pretty good results so far.
Vochatrak-az-ezm Feb 24, 2021
Thank you, but unfortunately the SDL2 Gamepad Tool does not allow you to customize the behavior of the sticks.
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