Sergio wrote:
The question is only : how to set an USB-joystick on Solaris 10x86 up ?
An the reason for to ask this question here is : nobody interesting to answer me on Solaris forums, simply because the only reason to use a joystick on Solaris is precisely ... to use FlightGear ! Right ?
Thank's for advance : without joystick, no true FlightGear usage...
Hello. Under Solaris 9/Sparc USB joysticks are recognized as /dev/usb/hidN (while N is a number starting from 0). Under Solaris 10/x86 this should be the same. FlightGear uses the "plib" library to access the joysticks. This Library has joystick support for Windows, MacOS, Linux and BSD. It does NOT have joystick support for Solaris. :-( This means you cannot "just" set up an USB or non-USB joystick under Solaris when using FlightGear. I am planning a program that uses the "properties" TCP access (e.g. TCP port 5501) to pass the joystick data of an USB joystick to the FlightGear flight simulator. The program will be written for Solaris/Sparc but it should compile under Solaris/x86, too (you'll need GCC). Currently I use my Windows PC for FlightGear because my Solaris machine is too slow (Ultra-5). So you'll have to wait until I have my new Solaris machine. :-( Martin. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
