I Just modified my 2.4.21-199 kernel on SuSe 9.0, using a patch from David Megginson and Alex Perry (I assume that you guys were the authors, I actually had to dig the patch out a mailinglist web archive), last weekend. Patching the 2.4.21 kernel went pretty flawlessly, even though the patch was oriiginally designed for the 2.4.19 kernel. I just had to swap two lines of code and it worked.
I've only briefly tried the 2.6.x series about two weeks ago, trying to figure out why my linux box kept locking-up about once a day. I didn't even get near trying the CH Y+P with the new kernel. I switched back to kernel 2.4.21 after giving up on the old hardware, replacing the old Athlon 500MHz with an Athlon XP +2400 . Before patching, I found similar problems as David's describing here for 2.6: Although both the Yoke and Pedals were listed as USB devices, only the yoke was properly recognized as a joystick. After applying the patch, both worked perfectly. I 'll try and create a true 2.4.21-suse patch over the weekend and contribute it back to the project. Because I had to chance the original patch just a tiny bit, I was wondering if it wouldn't be a good idea to add a special "Patch" section to the main FlightGear download page on the website where people can donload these for various kernel versions. I haven't even looked at the 2.6.x kernel sources, so I don't have a clue whether or not they would be patchable. Cheers, Durk On Tuesday 23 March 2004 03:42, David Megginson wrote: > Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > Does the js interface output anything (as in $ cat /dev/input/js0)? > > If yes, then you might be able to fix the problem by simply calibrating > > ($ jscal /dev/input/js0). Some people are convinced that USB joysticks > > don't need calibration under Linux, but that's wrong. And some of the > > sticks are so extremely uncalibrated that they don't do anything useful > > at all. > > The buttons don't respond either, and the yoke worked fine under the > (patched) 2.4.* kernels. There's definitely a problem, still, with the > Linux 2.6.* HID support. > > > All the best, > > > David > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
