On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Sascha Hlusiak <[email protected]> wrote: > Am Dienstag 17 März 2009 15:51:15 schrieb Andrew Gaydenko: >> On Tuesday 17 March 2009 17:37:40 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> > Andrew Gaydenko wrote: >> > > Hi! >> > > >> > > Have bought a gamepad for my son - he plays supertuxkart (USB, "Black >> > > Warrior Patriot Vibration Gamepad"), attached, added >> > > >> > > Section "InputDevice" >> > > Identifier "joy1" >> > > Driver "joystick" >> > > EndSection >> > > >> > > to xorg.conf, restarted X (Gnome), and ... what? >> > >> > I guess it depends on the version of X.Org. With 1.5.x, you don't need >> > an xorg.conf entry. You just plug it in and it works. The kernel must >> > of course have joystick support. > Little clarification. The xf86-input-joystick module is to use the joystick as > an X input device to control the mouse cursor. It is not needed to play games > or to use it in programs that directly use the joystick, like mplayer. > > You can use xf86-input-joystick to control the cursor or to use a joystick in > games that do NOT know how to handle joysticks themselves. > > Neither you need joystick in INPUT_DEVICES, nor you need an entry in xorg.conf > nor have xorg-server compiled with hal to use a joystick in games the usual > way. Appropriate kernel modules and udev will do.
Good information, thank you.
