Scott Sumner schrieb: > I believe that the joystick can be initialized and read without a > window. [...] If you don't use the event system and just use the > "read the joystick directly" function I think it'll just work.
You can still use the event module (which depends on the display module) on a headless server if you set the SDL video driver to 'dummy': import os import pygame os.environ['SDL_VIDEODRIVER'] = 'dummy' pygame.display.init() Just tested this on my Ubuntu 10.04 virtual server. http://www.libsdl.org/docs/html/sdlenvvars.html http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/display.html#pygame.display.init Chris