Did you ever get your pedals and yoke working? If so, what did you do?
On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 04:41, David Megginson wrote: > The plib maintainer, Steve Baker, has agreed to let me mess with plib > so that the joystick code can report the device's id string, as in > "Logitech Inc. WingMan Extreme Digital 3D". Once that's working, it > might be worth doing some restructuring of the input code. > > Essentially, right now we have something like > > <input> > <joysticks> > <js> > ... > </js> > <js> > ... > </js> > </joysticks> > </input> > > etc. Under Linux, these will be connected to /dev/js0, /dev/js1, and > so on. This creates a couple of problems: > > 1. Linux does not guarantee initialization order, so /dev/js0 might be > your yoke today and your pedals tomorrow. > > 2. The system cannot adjust itself for different devices. > > Once the plib js library can report the device name, we can use > something like this: > > <input> > <joysticks> > <js> > <id>Logitech Inc. WingMan Extreme Digital 3D</id> > ... > </js> > <js> > <id>CH PRODUCTS CH PRO PEDALS USB </id> > ... > </js> > <js> > <id>Logitech Inc. WingMan RumblePad</id> > ... > </js> > <js> > ... > </js> > </joysticks> > </input> > > When no ID is specified, the branch provides default settings for > unrecognized controllers. This way, it won't matter *what* order > devices are initialized in, or what device you happen to have plugged > in today. > > I can write the Linux support on the plib side, but we'll need > volunteers to do the FreeBSD and Windows stuff (and possibly Mac). If > any developers on the FlightGear side knows what they're doing here, > I'd appreciate their participation. > > > All the best, > > > David > > -- > David Megginson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > -- Tony Peden [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know Linux is great ... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. -- attributed to Linus Torvalds _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
