They are homebrewed. The guts came out of a Saiteck 290 Pro joystick and the pedals are Thrustmasters. An hour with a soldering iron would fix the reversed pot, but 30 seconds in a text editor made it work just fine. :)
http://www.jentronics.com/fgfs/simpit/pedal.jpg On Sunday 25 September 2011 03:20:23 Durk Talsma wrote: > Hi Ron, > > Thanks for reporting. Which set of pedals are you using? For me, both > brakes report -1 when not pressed and 1 when pressed. > > I am using the saitek pro pedals. When looking at the raw device output > (using jstest /dev/input/js[01]), I see that (usually), the toe brakes > output is only -32767 or +32767 (with no intermediaries). I also typically > find that when I first plug in the pedals, js_demo reports losing the > device. > > As mentioned, this is mostly how it is reported. Sometimes the correct > values are reported, which makes me believe that I'm either facing a > hardware problem (which went undetected in older kernels), or the more > recent kernels don't know how to handle the Saitek pedals. > > In any case, I might want to try downloading a debian live CD to see what > kind of behavior I'm getting there (or test an older Suse installation). > > Cheers, > Durk > > > I just looked at js_demo with my toe brakes and they show the same > > behavior, range is +/-1, left brake sense is reversed. > > > > Debian Linux 2.6.38-2-686 #1 SMP Thu Apr 7 05:24:21 UTC 2011 i686 > > GNU/Linux > > > > I have this as a configuration: (add an offset so the range is 0..2 then > > multiply by 0.5) > > > > <axis n="1"> > > <desc>Left Brake</desc> > > <binding> > > <command>property-scale</command> > > <property>/controls/gear/brake-left</property> > > <offset type="double">-1.0</offset> > > <factor type="double">-0.5</factor> > > </binding> > > </axis> > > > > <axis n="2"> > > <desc>Right Brake</desc> > > <binding> > > <command>property-scale</command> > > <property>/controls/gear/brake-right</property> > > <factor type="double">0.5</factor> > > <offset type="double">1.0</offset> > > </binding> > > </axis> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
