On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 7:48 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Jason Kridner <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> All interested in http://campaign.circuithub.com/beaglebone-gamingcape,
>>
>> I'm trying to make sure the kernel and software image are suitable for
>> giving the green light to CircuitHub to start shipping the Gaming
>> Capes.  I wanted to give people a chance to give some feedback on what
>> ideally should be done, save off some notes on my current
>> progress---and enable you to try it out if you happen to have built
>> one of these capes.
>>
>> I've been starting by patching up the 3.8 kernel
>> (firmware/capes/BEAGLEBOY-0013.dts):
>>
>> http://builds.beagleboard.org/builders/build-kernel/builds/45
>>
>> On-going work on the install instructions are at:
>>
>> https://github.com/jadonk/gamingcape/blob/master/software/install.sh
>>
>> If the EEPROM isn't programmed, you'll need to short the WP line to
>> ground and run:
>>
>> https://github.com/jadonk/gamingcape/blob/master/software/write_eeprom.sh
>>
>> What I haven't yet worked out, but am looking at resolving are:
>>
>> * adding a joystick driver for the joystick (not just analog values)
>>    --- my current thoughts are either using /dev/uinput and a
>> userspace application or
>>    --- modifying the input/joystick/analog.c driver to use device tree
>> and ADC converters
>> * get the mouse working under X11 using the joystick and buttons
>>    --- I've hacked on xorg.conf files to get xserver-xorg-input-evdev
>> drivers loaded, but I don't seem to be seeing the the "mouse" clicks
>> (/var/log/Xorg.0.log - http://paste.debian.net/198458/)
>
> xserver-xorg-input-joystick should be able to handle this..
>
> It allows a bunch of customization:
>
> http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/man/man4/joystick.4.xhtml

Hunyue created a /dev/uinput driver for me (software/adcjs.c) and
helped me get a reasonable config for xserver-xorg-input-*
(software/99-gamingcape.conf).

https://github.com/jadonk/gamingcape

I think I just need to modify an example emulator to use it and clean
up a release image.

I'm still having problems with the lsm330_acc driver.

http://paste.debian.net/201168/

>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Robert Nelson
> https://rcn-ee.com/

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