craig wrote: > Georg Vollnhals wrote: > >> I have a *similar* problem with my usb-joystick, not the same. To get it >> recognized I had to do a "trick" - assign a (any) usb-device (I used a >> Logitech Gamepad USB) to my onboard soundcard (gameport) with YAST. >> Then my "HID 0583:2032 (/dev/input/js0)" joystick gets recognized by the >> KDE "Kontrollzentrum" (= controll-center), can be calibrated there and >> works fine. >> Although it is then present after every reboot of the PC (without that >> described un-/replugging) the calibration values are lost and I have to >> calibrate it everytime I have a new PC startup. And I had it lost once I >> did a very long flight - the device got "uncalibrated" and the airplane >> crashed. >> I already made a bug-report to the KDE people, they might be the wrong >> ones if it is a SUSE system problem. Ok, I have to look for a SUSE >> bug-report then, as you possibly did already. >> Regards >> Georg >> >> @Craig: >> I am still converting some of the FGTools functions and was wrong when I >> thought this would be a question of *hours*. This is true for 95% of the >> code. But for the rest it is a question of *days* for a Linux n00b. To >> find out how to access the users home directory automatically (to read >> the "UFO-export-XML-file" by FGTools and let it do all that automated >> things) when the Lazarus functions cannot use the '~' sign was a real >> task. Now I learned to read the environment-variable "HOME" by a special >> function. So there is a big delay! But work goes on. >> >> >> > Oh the porting is a real battle sometimes! I still think Linux is > largely a black box! For the moment I will continue with it but really > I feel its complete overkill for a desktop system. Maybe I'm easily > dissuaded but the multiuser environment makes it a real bitch to just > run your programs and move files about etc. This is my third go with > Linux and I'm not convinced it will be my OS of choice. I better get > back to porting PLIB to OS/2 hadn't I! > > Keep up the work with FGTools though as I think its a good work for us > to have completed for whatever platform we run. > > Craig >
READ from a recent post of mine -- approach Linux saying very often "I don't know JACK/diddly-squat about this stuff". If you approach Linux as though it's Windows, frustration will result, that's exactly what I have seen in a guy I have on skype regularly, he keeps harping back to the Windows way of doing things, e.g he compains that he can't understand the filesystem structure, C:\, C:\Windows, C:\Windows\System, C:\Programme Files, /, /usr, /usr/bin, /etc/sysconfig all seem to be the same hierarchy to me from the day I started using Unix, admittedly what they contain is decidedly different. It wholly depends on your approach as I've seen guys (the largest bulk of Linux users) who have mastered the Linux way very quickly and find it easy to understand and even write code for. If Linux is "largely a black box", I can't even imagine what to compare Windows to as every shred of a Linux system is available to the whole world to scrutinize. The multi-user environment should be quite easy to understand, each user has his/her own environment and is separate, certain operations can only be performed by root as a barrier to a user hosing up the system for every other user including root. Understand permissions and you have the problem solved. An excellent reference work is available in html format, the pdf link doesn't work, http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz, it's a quick way to demystify most things, also as pdf at www.linux-france.org/lug/ploug/doc/rute.pdf. I have set up desktops for complete computer novices, including guys 66+ and 75+ year olds who didn't know how to use a keyboard and they are happy using Linux for all the usual stuff like email, skype, surfing the web, playing games, spreadsheets, word processing, playing music CD's, viewing DVD's and organising and printing photos from digital cameras. The best analogy I can come up with - when I approach an aeroplane type I've never flown before, the main instruments and controls are all the same, but I just have to learn how to fly it with the aid of an instructor and reading documents. To attempt flying it with current knowledge would almost certainly be the final installment to my obituary. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
