After you do your configuration, compare the file to a stock file for another similar joystick. I do my configuration and then copy and paste the default 4 axis joystick config over the top of my custom file to get the x and y working properly. John wrote: > Surely somebody knows how to change the channels in flightgear or the model > or > is just that it doesn't work? > > Hi > I'm usually a linux user who is new to flightgear. > > I'm trying to get flightgear up and running on a windows xp laptop and have a > problem with the "joystick". > > I'm using a usb joystick that is styled round a 4 channel radio control > transmitter on the b105 eurocopter. (It came with an awful flight simulator.) > As far as I am aware these function in the same fashion as a real rc > transmitter with a usb lead plugged in. There are two sticks. The right stick > controls the plain of the main rotor and the left stick the throttle and the > tail rotor. The throttle would normally be mixed into the pitch control as > well. All function apart from the tail rotor control. > > I can't use fgjs that effectively because there aren't any buttons on this > joystick. I have found a file that assigns the "rudder" correctly to axis 3 > but it doesn't control the helicopter tail rotor where ever I put it called > either js0 or joystick. > > js_demo shows all axis working. Throttle on 2, main rotor on 0 and 1 and > picks > up axis 3 moving too. > > Windows recognises the joystic and assigns axis 3 to Y rotate and the > throttle > to the z axis. The other stick moves the cross about in the box. None of the > controls alter the X rotate. > > Any clues or preferably instructions -just what do I need to do? > >
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