Andy Pugh wrote: > I have a gamepad as a jog control, it works well, but the one I have > is rather low-quality (getting it into digital mode so it works at all > needs just the right pressure on the button, for example). > I have been thinking of trading it up to a higher-quality wireless > version, but just saw one of these on eBay. > http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/review-shuttlepro-multimedia-controller/ > Which looks almost ideal for an MPG, if it can be persuaded to talk to > hal_input. > > Any guesses as to whether it will "Just Work" or whether it will never > work, or somewhere in between? > > There is a smaller one at about £20 that I might take a punt on just to see. > The Contour Shuttle has a problem in the way it reports motion. It counts from 0-255, then wraps back to 0. This might be OK if the "axis" were reported absolute, but it's actually reported as relative. The problem is, relative motion of 0 means no motion, so the kernel doesn't report that "tick". I did some experimentation with the kernel driver, but didn't persist long enough to get it to work. Someone else did some work on this, and posted a description of their efforts to the mailing list. I believe they got it working for themselves, but I don't know if it also works for others.
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