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I have a simple joystick: A stick with two buttons. It is usually connected to my soundcard, and it works in many linux games. However, I see no options in tf2 to activate/use it (only: "gamepad").

Can I still use my joystick in TF2?

Please note: No wine related answers - I use the games native (via "Steam on Linux").

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    If you enable the "gamepad" option, does it work?
    – badp
    Commented Jan 26, 2014 at 16:18
  • @badp: No, sadly not.
    – Johannes
    Commented Jan 26, 2014 at 18:02
  • If you're using a linux distribution other than Ubuntu 12.04, you might be running into a problem caused by Steam embedding its sdl & udev libraries. Assuming your joystick exposes a file like /dev/input/event123 file when connected, try launching steam like this: SDL_JOYSTICK_DEVICE=/dev/input/event123 steam
    – ʇsәɹoɈ
    Commented Sep 26, 2014 at 1:24

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The research I've done shows mixed findings. Some sources say Team Fortress 2 only has partial controller support for Xbox 360 and PS3 controllers on PC. The Team Fortress 2 wiki also only has setup guides for Xbox and PS3. The support pages for using a controller on Source do say that there is no Mac support for controllers in Valve games. According to another page, there are drivers you can install to use a controller on a Mac. Here are the support pages if you want to check them out.

Unfortunately, control support is limited to begin with and seeing as there little to no native support for Mac's and only minimal support on PC, I don't believe there is support for Linux. Sorry :(

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