Hi Andy, Thanks for the response!
On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 15:24, Andy Ross wrote: > David Megginson wrote: > > Victoria Welch writes: > > > Played with all this for *hours* last night and this morning and am > > > starting to have misgivings about the stick. The whole thing just seems > > > incredibly flakey. > > > > Go into plib, and look at the examples/src/js directory. There is a > > js_demo application that you can run to see the raw values plib is > > getting from your joystick. > > And your distribution should have a "jstest" program installed that > will show you the raw values being exported by the driver. Well, at this point I just don't know. The stick is a real jewel (I have about a half dozen more in the junkbox :-) and have had no problems with it up until this. Just to make sure I wasn't either going crazy or just exhausted this morning, I <blush> switched over to windoz, fired up fs2k2 and took an SH-60 for about a 2 hour hop between KBFI and KNUW (VERY round about, out to the carrier in the sound and back, etc. :-) and the stick performed, as usual, flawlessly. > I do suspect you have a bad stick. I've had nothing but pleasant > experiences with the Linux HID drivers, with keyboards mice or > joysticks. The only complaint I have is that I haven't figured out > how to get the joydev module to load on demand. The device numbers > for the /dev/js devices map to "input", and the input module is too > dumb to load its joystick handler. The problem is not that it doesn't work, js_demo and cat /dev/input/js0 show signs of life. Getting it calibrated seems to be the issue. Although I rather dread it, I think I take each axis and start stepping 0.01 through the values and until I do that I am not going to know if it is going to work with fg or not, sigh... The secret to getting joydev to load, I think, is in modules.conf, I've just had too much to do getting everything up here to figure out what it takes to get it in there, I think the alias directive will do it, that is item 45,347 on my to-do list ;-). Thanks & take care, Vikki (who is experiencing in real time why she doesn't do all nighters much anymore :-). -- Victoria Welch, WV9K/7, SysAdmin, Embedded Systems Designer. "Walking on water and developing software to specification are easy as long as both are frozen" - Edward V. Berard. Do not unto others, that which you would not have others do unto you. "Micro$oft Windows. I'll bet you can't install it just once!" _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users
