Re: [Emc-users] Game port question

2007-03-03 Thread Jeff Epler
emc 2.1 (and maybe emc 2.0, I'm not sure) will use any linux-detected joystick. Refer to the "hal_joystick" manpage for more details. (http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.1/html/man/man1/hal_joystick.1.html or by typing 'man hal_joystic' at the shell prompt) You can tell if your joystick is detected by lo

[Emc-users] Game port question

2007-03-03 Thread Larry D. O'Cull
Has anyone interfaced the standard Joystick interface to/through HAL or otherwise? We have retrofitted our MicroKinetics milling machine using only the parallel port, and the only unresolved control is the feedrate override that comes through the game port on the PC. I must say that so far this