Please refer to xorg.conf(5) for general configuration details and for options that can be used with all
input drivers. This section only covers configuration details specific to this driver.
The following driver Options are supported:
Option"Device" "devpath"
This specifies the device path to the input event-device of the Wii Remote. This is most often a
device in /dev/input/eventX. Do not use this option unless you want to disable device hot-plug.
Option"MotionSource" "source"
The Wii Remote can be used as motion input device (like a mouse). This selects what kind of
motion-emulation should be performed. source can be one of accelerometer, ir, MotionPlus or off.
Default is off which means no motion-emulation is done. accelerometer means that the accelerometer
is used to calculate current tilt and use this as absolute pointer input.
ir means that the IR sensor is used to detect the mouse-location. You need to place an IR emitter
in front of you. The Wii Remote has a built-in camera to scan it and calculate the pointer-
position from it. Only a single IR source is used by this driver. If multiple IR sources are
found, the upper-left most is used.
MotionPlus means that the gyroscope of MotionPlus extensions (or Gen2.0 Devices with built-in
MotionPlus) is used. You need to set MPNormalization and MPCalibrationFactor or use run-time
calibration to make use of this. This does nothing if no MotionPlus is detected. With newer
kernels, you can plug/replug the MotionPlus adapter during runtime and it gets detected
automatically.
Option"MPNormalization" "On" or "Int:Int:Int"
Option"MPCalibrationFactor" "On" or "Int"
Option"MPXAxis" "x" or "y" or "z"
Option"MPXScale" "Int"
Option"MPYAxis" "x" or "y" or "z"
Option"MPYScale" "Int"
Option"MPZAxis" "x" or "y" or "z"
Option"MPZScale" "Int"
If running in MotionSource MotionPlus configuration, MPNormalization can be used to apply a
constant offset to normalize MotionPlus data. Please use xwiishow or some similar tool from the
xwiimote distribution to get these offsets. Set this to on to let the driver perform automatic
normalization during startup.
The calibration factor is used to apply calibration values during runtime to keep the data smooth.
A factor between 10 and 100 is normally used. If set to on, 50 will be used.
The Axis and Scale options for each axis define remappings and scaling in case the default
mappings are not what you want. The Axis selector specifies which axis to use as source. So if you
set MPXAxis to z, then whenever the driver wants to read the X-axis values, it gets the Z-axis
instead. The Scale options specify a multiplier. The default is 1 (no scaling). The default for
the axis-mappings are the trivial mappings. Note that the MP-motion-source only uses X and Z axis
for movement calculations.
The following options specify keymaps for the buttons of a Wii Remote. The val field of the options must
be one of the linux input-key/btn constants. You can find them in /usr/include/linux/input.h. They
start with KEY_* or BTN_*. The option is case-insensitive so KEY_ENTER and Key_Enter are the same.
Additional values are none, off, 0 or false to disable the given button or left-button, right-button or
middle-button to emulate mouse-buttons instead of keyboard keys.
Option"MapLeft" "val"
Specify the mapping of the LEFT button of the Wii Remote. Default is KEY_LEFTOption"MapRight" "val"
Specify the mapping of the RIGHT button of the Wii Remote. Default is KEY_RIGHTOption"MapUp" "val"
a Specify the mapping of the UP button of the Wii Remote. Default is KEY_UPOption"MapDown" "val"
a Specify the mapping of the DOWN button of the Wii Remote. Default is KEY_DOWNOption"MapA" "val"
a Specify the mapping of the A button of the Wii Remote. Default is KEY_ENTEROption"MapB" "val"
a Specify the mapping of the B button of the Wii Remote. Default is KEY_SPACEOption"MapPlus" "val"
a Specify the mapping of the PLUS button of the Wii Remote. Default is KEY_VOLUMEUPOption"MapMinus" "val"
a Specify the mapping of the MINUS button of the Wii Remote. Default is KEY_VOLUMEDOWNOption"MapHome" "val"
a Specify the mapping of the HOME button of the Wii Remote. Default is KEY_ESCOption"MapOne" "val"
a Specify the mapping of the ONE button of the Wii Remote. Default is KEY_1Option"MapTwo" "val"
Specify the mapping of the TWO button of the Wii Remote. Default is KEY_2
The following options are standard X.org input device options which also apply to Wii Remote devices:
Option"XkbRules""rules"Option"XkbModel""model"Option"XkbLayout""layout"Option"XkbVariant""variant"Option"XkbOptions""options"
These are the standard Xkb options that select the RMLVO parameters of the keyboard. See the Xkb
man-pages for more information. Please be aware that keymaps are applied to all keys before they
are sent to the X clients. So take that into account when configuring the other mappings of Wii
Remotes.