On Thursday 09 February 2006 11:05 pm, Alex Perry wrote: > From: Dick Murphy > > > On Tuesday 07 February 2006 10:07 pm, Sid Boyce wrote: > > > Dick Murphy wrote: > > > > On Monday 06 February 2006 8:58 pm, Hal V. Engel wrote: > > > >> Have you checked to make sure that USB HID and HID imput layer > > > >> support are installed either as modules or compiled into the kernel. > > > >> That was all I had to do to get my pedals and combatstick working > > > > > > > > Hello Hal, > > > > > > > > As a certified Linux noob, I can speak some Linux, but, you left me > > > > behind on the "...make sure the USB HID and HID imput layer support > > > > are installed either as modules or compiled into the kernel." > > > > > > > > Could you point me to a source of info on this? > > > > > > > > Many thanks. > > > > > > > > Dick > > > > > > The module is usbhid. > > > "lsmod|grep usbhid" should show if the module is loaded. If it isn't, > > > "modprobe usbhid". > > > Regards > > > Sid. > > > > the modprobe|grep usbhid result is: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] lsmod|grep usbhid > > usbhid 28480 0 > > > > Never having seen this kind of result, does it show usbhid as loaded? > > Yes. You might also check these modules the same way: > joydev input > > Finally, you need to have device nodes for the joysticks. Try this: > find /dev -name js0 > If it doesn't show any results, you need to do the following command > cd /dev; MAKEDEV js > > Here is what I did:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cd /dev [EMAIL PROTECTED] joydev input bash: joydev: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAKEDEV js [note: when I did this, it paused a second, and returned prompt.] [EMAIL PROTECTED] find /dev -name js0 /dev/input/js0 /dev/js0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I looked at input/js0 and js0, the files are empty. Started up FlightGear, and still no inputs. Unplugged and re-plugged USB connections, FlightGear 'hiccupped' and got back to steady, but no inputs. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
