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HGAME(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual HGAME(4) NAME hgame -- generic HID gamepad, joystick, and controller evdev driver SYNOPSIS device hgame device hid device hidbus device hidmap device evdev In sysctl.conf(5): dev.hgame.X.debug In loader.conf(5): hw.hid.hgame.debug hgame_load DESCRIPTION The hgame driver supports generic game controllers that attach to the HID transport backend, and presents them to applications over the evdev interface. If the appropriate hardware is detected, the driver will be loaded au- tomatically by devmatch(8). To load the driver manually at boot time, set the hgame_load variable to YES at the loader(8) prompt, or add it to loader.conf(5). To give user applications access to the game controllers, allow user access to the /dev/input/event* nodes with devfs.rules(5). HARDWARE The hgame driver supports HID gamepads, joysticks, and controllers such as: • 8bitdo USB Wireless Adapter 2 SYSCTL VARIABLES The following variable is available as both sysctl(8) variable and loader(8) tunable: dev.hgame.X.debug Debug output level, where 0 is debugging disabled and larger values increase debug message verbosity. Default is 0. It's default value is set with loader(8) tunable: hw.hid.hgame.debug FILES /dev/input/event* input event device (evdev) node SEE ALSO iichid(4), ps4dshock(4), usbhid(4), xb360gp(4), devfs.rules(5) HISTORY The hgame driver first appeared in FreeBSD 13.0. AUTHORS The hgame driver was written by Val Packett <val@packett.cool>. This manual page was written by Vladimir Kondratyev <wulf@FreeBSD.org>. FreeBSD 15.0 November 12, 2025 HGAME(4)
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