RE: [Flightgear-devel] Joystick issues with throttleAxis()

2005-11-11 Thread Richard Bytheway
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ralf Gerlich snip I was just thinking of a more general way of solving the calibration issues than putting it into the configuration files. Regards, Ralf snip I have used systems (PS, PS2, the driver for my Saitek joystick under Windows) which

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Joystick issues with throttleAxis()

2005-11-11 Thread Stefan Seifert
Richard Bytheway wrote: I have used systems (PS, PS2, the driver for my Saitek joystick under Windows) which appear to monitor the highest and lowest values that have been seen from a given axis, and assume that these are the extremes of the axis. Obviously when you first start it up,

[Flightgear-devel] Joystick issues with throttleAxis()

2005-11-09 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, some time ago a new version of the joystick configuration file for Logitech Wingman FF 3D was committed, containing a change to the throttle-handling. Shortly after that I couldn't get the engines down to idle. As I noticed, jsdemo reports that the throttle axis returns +0.3 when on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Joystick issues with throttleAxis()

2005-11-09 Thread Dave Culp
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 12:58 pm, Ralf Gerlich wrote: ... some time ago a new version of the joystick configuration file for Logitech Wingman FF 3D was committed, containing a change to the throttle-handling. Shortly after that I couldn't get the engines down to idle. As I noticed,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Joystick issues with throttleAxis()

2005-11-09 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Dave Culp wrote: On Wednesday 09 November 2005 12:58 pm, Ralf Gerlich wrote: [SNIP] Shortly after that I couldn't get the engines down to idle. As I noticed, jsdemo reports that the throttle axis returns +0.3 when on idle. I'm using Linux on a 2.6.8 kernel. That configuration file

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Joystick issues with throttleAxis()

2005-11-09 Thread AJ MacLeod
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 19:04, Dave Culp wrote: That configuration file applies an offset of -0.3 prior to the scale. That shouldn't be allowed, and I guess someone's personal configuration snuck in by accident? I don't think so in this case. That offset apparently worked for most

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Joystick issues with throttleAxis()

2005-11-09 Thread Buchanan, Stuart
--- AJ MacLeod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would be interested to know if anyone has a Wingman Force 3d which gives the correct full range of throttle values with the new config... Mine does, but then since I sent in the patch I probably don't count... I wonder if it is OS or USB specific?