Re: [Flightgear-users] Joystick issues

Jeremy Johnson Sun, 23 Jan 2005 12:05:50 -0800

On Sunday 23 January 2005 12:54 am, Rett D. Walters wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I have been unable to get FlightGear 0.9.8 to recognize my
> Joystick.  I know the Joystick works on Linux because I
> can use it with X-Plane and the gentoo jscalibrate tool
> works and sees it.
>
> When I run js_demo that comes with FlightGear, the program
> correctly indentfies the Joystick, but does not register
> any axis movement when I move the stick.
>
> I have this issue on two systems, both with MS joysticks
> (Sidewinder Force Feedback (gameport), and SW Precision
> Pro 2 USB).
>
> Here is my system details:
>
> Gentoo Linux 2004.1
> Kernel 2.6.7 (gentoo-dev-sources)
> P4 2.8 Ghz (Northwood Core)
> Sis648 Chipset, 1.0 GB RAM
> NVIDIA GeForce TI4200 128 MB
> SB Live 5.1
>
> FlightGear 0.9.8 (gentoo ebuild, essentially compilied
> from source)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rett Walters
>
>
>
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Jeremy Johnson a écrit :
> Did you compile Microsoft Sidewinder support into your kernel or as a module?
> If you compiled it as a module did you load it? e.g. modprobe sidewinder
> 

I have found my error :

first : I have load some modules for the support of the joystick :
-------
   modprobe ns558
   modprobe joydev
   modprobe sidewinder

but my sidewinder joystick is an old analog joystick, which do not use 
the sidewinder module.

If I remove the sidewinder module with the command :
   modprobe -r sidewinder
then, the jstest and js_demo work in the same way.


second : I have to calibrate the joystick with the commande
--------
   jscal -c /dev/js0

then, everything works like it should

For information, The Linux kernel documentation contains a very 
interesting file called joystick.txt which you could read there :

   http://skipper.sourceforge.net/additional/joystick.txt

Thanks for your help !

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