[Flightgear-devel] Joystick problems under Windows
Hi, as I think only a few of you have the time to look at the AVSIM FG Forum. And as you are discussing joystick problems under windows I want to mail you a recent post from guy who had/has serious problems with Saitek USB(!!!)-joystick under Linux and my answer to it: tokabola wrote Apr-16-04: Hi, Does anyone know how to get a Saitek Cyborg 3D USB joystick to work with Linux? js_demo can't seem to read the axis, just the buttons. The jscalibrator util for libjsw reads the axis, and I know joydev is working on my machine (Mandrake Linux 10.0). I've tried with a few 2.4.x kernels and the latest 2.6 version, same results. This isn't a problem with the XML file, FGFS (and for that matter FGJS) simply can't read the analog axis. If anyone has made this stick (or a similar USB stick) work please tell me how. I'm trying to stop using Windows but don't want to give up FG. Thanks Tommy Open Source for Open Minds HeliFLYer answered Apr-19-04 Hi Tommy, there seems to be a similar problem under Windows (XP), USB Joystick(s) and FlightGear, too. As long as I had Gameport-Joysticks (JS0=Stick, JS1= Pedals) all worked fine. Now with two USB Channels (JS0=Saitek X45 Stick and Throttle, JS1= Pedals with USB-Adaptor) I get can't get JS0 work. JSDemo displays like that: (picture here not displayed, therefore some text info:) Joystick test program Joystick 0 not detected Joystick 1 is 4-Achse 4-Taste Joystick JS0 JS1 Not detected Btns Ax:0 Ax:1 .. . -0.1 FlightGear is the ONLY program which cannot handle both USB sticks (channels). There are no problems with other sims. I gave up. Just using FlightGear with the mouse for a while because it is boring and there is no fun anymore. Hope that problem will be solved with the next versions. Regards Georg (EDDW) Would be really great if someone could check these problems before releasing 0.9.5, this is beyond my horizont. First I thought it to be a special problem of MY hardware and FG, but I heard from another friend that he could not get his USB joysticks working with FG. There are many known and discussed problems with USB joysticks under Win especially when USB shares IRQ with the grafic card (ie CDTs). Thanks a lot in advance Georg (EDDW) --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.645 / Virus Database: 413 - Release Date: 28.03.2004 ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
[Flightgear-devel] Joystick problems...
Hi, Tanks for the explanation about YASim output data. Now I've another question. Due to the fact that I've the ThrustMaster Top Gun (...), for which a config file was added in the last release, I've tried to use it in FlightGear but it doesn't works. Truly it works, but seems that isn't recognized so the config file doesn't works right. What's the problem? I'd like to change the config file but it's impossible if the joystick is recognized like a two axis, two buttons joystick. However, Js-demo finds the ThrustMaster if it's connected. Why? Hi, Luca ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Joystick problems...
On Montag, 26. April 2004 18:33, Luca Masera wrote: Now I've another question. Due to the fact that I've the ThrustMaster Top Gun (...), for which a config file was added in the last release, I've tried to use it in FlightGear but it doesn't works. Truly it works, but seems that isn't recognized so the config file doesn't works right. What's the problem? I'd like to change the config file but it's impossible if the joystick is recognized like a two axis, two buttons joystick. However, Js-demo finds the ThrustMaster if it's connected. Why? I believe that the name in quotes must *exactly* (case sensitive?) match the name in the config file. Here js_test printout for my joystick: Joystick test program. ~~ Joystick 0: THRUSTMASTER Top Gun Afterburner ... How does js_test call your joystick? Greetings Mathias -- Mathias Fröhlich, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Joystick problems...
On Monday 26 April 2004 19:05, Mathias Fröhlich wrote: On Montag, 26. April 2004 18:33, Luca Masera wrote: Now I've another question. Due to the fact that I've the ThrustMaster Top Gun (...), for which a config file was added in the last release, I've tried to use it in FlightGear but it doesn't works. Truly it works, but seems that isn't recognized so the config file doesn't works right. What's the problem? I'd like to change the config file but it's impossible if the joystick is recognized like a two axis, two buttons joystick. However, Js-demo finds the ThrustMaster if it's connected. Why? I believe that the name in quotes must *exactly* (case sensitive?) match the name in the config file. Here js_test printout for my joystick: Joystick test program. ~~ Joystick 0: THRUSTMASTER Top Gun Afterburner ... I had problems with my Thrustmaster Top Gun joystick on Windows. The name included the registered trademark (R) character. It showed up as [] in js_test. There was no way for Flightgear to recognize the name (because of the (R) character). My solution was to uninstall the Thrustmapper driver for my joystick, then the name became somthing else without the (R). -- Roy Vegard Ovesen ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
