Never mind, I am an idiot

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Igor Chudov <ichu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I attended a garage sale today, and accidentally bought a Saitek P880
> joypad for $2 (brand new, never used).
>
> If I plug it in, I can see it in jscalibrator. By all accounts it
> works well. I am a member of group plugdev.
>
> I tried to follow this web page, which also talks about Saitek P880:
>
> http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/emcinfo.pl?A_New_Approach_For_Using_Joypads_With_EMC2
>
> However, EMC2 saw NO signals from this joystick, if I tried to do
> halcmd show all, no buttons or anything would appear in the list.
>
> I decided to comment out everything and left only one statement:
> loadusr -W hal_input -KRAL Saitek
>
> Even then nothing was listed (no buttons or other things).
>
> I have a feeling that I am missing something simple, maybe something
> in xorg.conf or whatever.
>
> lsmod shows joydev loaded. if I do cat /dev/inupt/js0 and press
> buttons, I get some characters output so I assume that it is working.
>
> Any ideas?
>

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