I'm a pseudonym wrote: > I am using macos 10.1.5 and a saitek x45 usb joystick. The joystick > is getting power (lights up), but neither fgfs joystick tool (fgjs or > js_demo) sees it nor does fgfs when it starts up. > > How does one set up a joystick on macos to work with flightgear?
Have you verified that the joystick actually works with Mac OS X? I have one of these controllers (which are otherwise fantastic gadgets), and under Linux it requires a special parameter to be set when the kernel module is compiled. Apparently, they respond too slowly to be considered compliant USB devices; the tweak increases the driver timeout delay. Saitek ships a custom windows driver that presumably does the same thing. They actually have a big yellow sticker on the plug warning you not to plug it in without installing the driver first. If you do, windows will (apparently) detect it incorrectly as a normal HID device and never be able to recover to the correct driver without a reinstall <long tirade elided...>. Can you use the joystick correctly in other Mac applications? Beyond that, I know squat about the Mac or BSD USB subsystems; sorry. :) Andy -- Andrew J. Ross NextBus Information Systems Senior Software Engineer Emeryville, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nextbus.com "Men go crazy in conflagrations. They only get better one by one." - Sting (misquoted) _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
