Re: [Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-16 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Martin Spott writes: [... Curt wrote ...] Something I've always thought would be cool to mess around with (but never even have come close to having the time) would be to put together a custom linux distribution on a bootable cd that detected/supported a couple of the major 3d graphics

Re: [Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-16 Thread Jim Wilson
Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Once the kernel boots you might be able to grab something out of /proc/pci (or other /proc entries.) There are probably hardware detection software out there too. I think RedHat does a lot of that (and I think Debian does hardware detection on a more

Re: [Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-15 Thread Martin Spott
[...] In the long run, Debian is a better choice, but SuSE would make it easier to concentrate on FGFS in the near term. I know very well that the stuff on configuring a joystick belongs into the manual. Because I don't have a joystick myself - they'll kill me if I connect a joystick to my

Re: [Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-15 Thread Curtis L. Olson
John Check writes: On Sunday 14 July 2002 7:33 am, David Megginson wrote: Victoria Welch writes: As for jscal, I am unable to locate it for mandrake. The source I found (which seems to have been an early version ?!?!?!?!) wants to be compiled into the kernel and I find that just

Re: [Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-14 Thread David Megginson
Victoria Welch writes: As for jscal, I am unable to locate it for mandrake. The source I found (which seems to have been an early version ?!?!?!?!) wants to be compiled into the kernel and I find that just too odd. I'm very surprised that this is not a standard part of Mandrake, because

Re: [Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-14 Thread Bernie Bright
On Sun, 14 Jul 2002 07:33:46 -0400 David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Victoria Welch writes: As for jscal, I am unable to locate it for mandrake. The source I found (which seems to have been an early version ?!?!?!?!) wants to be compiled into the kernel and I find that just

Re: [Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-14 Thread Victoria Welch
Hi Bernie, Thanks for the response. [ ... ] For whatever reason Mandrake doesn't include jscal or jstest. However these are part of the joystick package which can be downloaded from your local cooker mirror. Alternatively you can download the linuxconsole package from sourceforge. jscal

Re: [Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-14 Thread Victoria Welch
Hi David, As for jscal, I am unable to locate it for mandrake. The source I found (which seems to have been an early version ?!?!?!?!) wants to be compiled into the kernel and I find that just too odd. I'm very surprised that this is not a standard part of Mandrake, because I've

Re: [Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-14 Thread Tony Peden
rpmfind lists this: http://www.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/cooker/contrib/RPMS/joystick-1.2.15-1mdk.i586.html On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 07:59, Victoria Welch wrote: Hi Bernie, Thanks for the response. [ ... ] For whatever reason Mandrake doesn't include jscal or jstest. However these are part

Re: [Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-14 Thread Victoria Welch
Hi Tony, Thanks for the response! On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 08:39, Tony Peden wrote: rpmfind lists this: http://www.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/cooker/contrib/RPMS/joystick-1.2.15-1mdk.i586.html Unfortunately Mandrake 8.2 comes with the 2.1.0 driver (where that exists, I have not a clue) and the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-14 Thread Bernie Bright
On 14 Jul 2002 09:02:50 -0700 Victoria Welch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tony, Thanks for the response! On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 08:39, Tony Peden wrote: rpmfind lists this: http://www.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/cooker/contrib/RPMS/joystick-1.2.15-1mdk.i586.html Unfortunately Mandrake

Re: [Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-14 Thread John Check
On Sunday 14 July 2002 7:33 am, David Megginson wrote: Victoria Welch writes: As for jscal, I am unable to locate it for mandrake. The source I found (which seems to have been an early version ?!?!?!?!) wants to be compiled into the kernel and I find that just too odd. I'm very

Re: [Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 08:11:53 +1000, Bernie Bright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 14 Jul 2002 09:02:50 -0700 Victoria Welch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tony, Thanks for the response! On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 08:39, Tony Peden wrote: rpmfind lists this:

[Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-13 Thread Dave Perry
Vikki, I normally use a CH Product Flight Sim Yoke, but do have the Cyborg 3D Gold USB. So I removed the yoke and plugged in the Saitek. I got values from -0.8 to +0.2 or +0.3 on all four axies running js_demo (usually in ../FlightGear/bin. Then I ran jscal /dev/js4 -c to do a calibration

Re: [Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-13 Thread Victoria Welch
Hi Dave, On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 15:46, Dave Perry wrote: Vikki, I normally use a CH Product Flight Sim Yoke, but do have the Cyborg 3D Gold USB. So I removed the yoke and plugged in the Saitek. I got values from -0.8 to +0.2 or +0.3 on all four axies running js_demo (usually in