On 05/19/2010 10:15 AM, Jeff Epler wrote:
> The "hal_joystick" component was deprecated in emc 2.2[1] and was intended
> to be removed in emc 2.4.  Instead, use hal_input[2], which will require
> additional modifications to joypad.hal due to different pin names.
>
> hal_input, which has existed since emc2.2, supports more devices than
> hal_joystick, and also does not suffer from the "race condition" bug
> that led us to deprecate hal_joystick.
>
> Since in emc 2.4 hal_joystick will never succesfully load, it will be
> removed for the upcoming 2.4.1 release.
>
> Jeff
> [1] http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.2/html/man/man1/hal_joystick.1.html
> [2] http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/man/man1/hal_input.1.html
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Thanks for the info. I'll try using hal_input.

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