On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 02:30:33AM -0400, Joseph Fannin wrote:
> Why is the use of usb and regular joysticks mutually exclusive?
It is not anymore. It was because they were sharing a common major
number and common device nodes.
> And, since it is this way, why can't the usb joystick use the standard
> /dev/jsX device nodes? The snes9x emulator seems to only support these
> -- I'm probably going to drop the maintainer a mail.
Because they're not exclusive now they have to use a different set of
device nodes. However, you still can name the device nodes any way you
want and/or use symbolic links to make your applications see the USB
joysticks.
Method1 (simpler):
mknod js0 c 15 0
mknod js1 c 13 0
Method2 (cleaner):
mknod js0 c 15 0
mkdir input
mknod input/js0 c 13 0
ln -s input/js0 js1
In the future, all joysticks will share the input/jsX nodes. But that
will require significant changes to the joystick code. They're in the
works (50% done).
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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