To test your control, you must:

• Start a ssh session via putty

• Then, run the following command: sdl2-jstest

List the number of your joysticks with the following command:

sdl2-jstest --list

Result:

Joystick Name:     'Bigben Interactive Bigben Game Pad'
Joystick Path:     '/dev/input/event0'
Joystick GUID:     030000006b1400000209000011010000
Joystick Number:    0
Number of Axes:     4
Number of Buttons: 13
Number of Hats:     1
...
Button code  0:   304
Button code  1:   305
Button code  2:   306
...

Test your joystick with the following command:

sdl2-jstest -e 0

Where 0 is your controller number detected with the command sdl2-jstest --list

Example with an N64 control clicking here.