• FreeBSD 14.1 (Xfce)
• Microsoft Sidewinder Precision Pro (USB)

• Joysticks on FreeBSD need to be at /dev/uhid# ¹⁾
• uhidd by-default does /dev/uvhid#, that can be symlinked to /dev/uhid# or be done automatically with uhidd -H uhid ²⁾
• uhidd has a lot of flags in examples for keyboard/mouse/consumer, but a joystick only needs the virtual generic interface with uhidd -h (not all of -kmohs)
• uhidd has to unbind whatever kernel driver is on the joystick with uhidd -u to take it over
• Seemingly once uhidd takes control of the original /dev/input/event# device, if it had evdev or joystick forced through xorg.conf that driver gets unloaded according to Xorg.0.log ³⁾
• USB devices are by-default put into /dev/uhid# paths with older uhid and usb drivers ⁴⁾

• 2024/09/09: uhidd is required to move game controllers to /dev/uhid# when using usbhid

• https://wiki.freebsd.org/uhidd
• https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=uhidd
• See devd.conf rule below to automate this

su -

pkg install 'uhidd'

dmesg | grep 'ugen'

uhidd -h -H 'uhid' -u '/dev/ugen0.6'

• Last updated: 2024/09/13

su -

pkg install 'uhidd'

ee '/usr/local/etc/devd/sidewinder-precision-pro-joystick-uhidd.conf'

notify 0 {
        match "type" "ATTACH";
        match "ugen" "ugen[0-9]+.[0-9]+";
        match "vendor" "0x045e";
        match "product" "0x0008";
        action "/usr/local/sbin/uhidd -h -H uhid -u /dev/$ugen";
};

• ld-elf.so.1 %LIBCUSE% error (thread)

su -l

mv '/usr/local/etc/devd/uhidd-devd.conf' '/usr/local/etc/devd/uhidd-devd.conf~'

• This avoids needing uhidd (connect joystick within 3 seconds)
• TODO: USB device reset command and devd

su - root -c "sysctl 'hw.usb.usbhid.enable=0' && sleep 3 && sysctl 'hw.usb.usbhid.enable=1'"