Re: [Flightgear-devel] Building joystick hardware

2005-06-06 Thread Torsten Dreyer
I put the source of the LTC1090 joystick driver here: http://www.t3r.de/fghw/ At the bottom of the page you find the download link for the source-tarball. This is a kernel module for a linux 2.6 kernel on ix86 machines with 8250/16450 serial ports (standard pc hardware). Comments *ARE* welcome!

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Building joystick hardware

2005-06-06 Thread Andy Ross
Wow, very cool. Torsten Dreyer wrote: This is a kernel module for a linux 2.6 kernel on ix86 machines with 8250/16450 serial ports (standard pc hardware). Comments *ARE* welcome! Anybody out there, who can point me to a resource for developing joystick drivers for MS? No hints about

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Building joystick hardware

2005-06-06 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Well - it's not really a serial driver, the interface connects thru the handshake lines rts/cts and dtr with rxd and txd left unconnected since the LTC1090 speaks a synchronous protocol. I have no Idea how to present a Joystick to the kernel out of userland. And second - correct me, if I'm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Building joystick hardware

2005-06-06 Thread Andy Ross
Torsten Dreyer wrote: Well - it's not really a serial driver, the interface connects thru the handshake lines rts/cts and dtr with rxd and txd left unconnected since the LTC1090 speaks a synchronous protocol. Oh, heh. Well, if the hardware is non-standard, then one hack is as good as another.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Building joystick hardware

2005-06-06 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 11:46:55 -0700, Andy wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Torsten Dreyer wrote: Well - it's not really a serial driver, the interface connects thru the handshake lines rts/cts and dtr with rxd and txd left unconnected since the LTC1090 speaks a synchronous protocol.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Building joystick hardware

2005-06-06 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Monday, 6 June 2005 20:46, Andy Ross wrote: Torsten Dreyer wrote: Well - it's not really a serial driver, the interface connects thru the handshake lines rts/cts and dtr with rxd and txd left unconnected since the LTC1090 speaks a synchronous protocol. Oh, heh. Well, if the hardware

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Building joystick hardware

2005-06-06 Thread theoreticle
developers discussions flightgear-devel@flightgear.org Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 7:36 PM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Building joystick hardware On Monday, 6 June 2005 20:46, Andy Ross wrote: Torsten Dreyer wrote: Well - it's not really a serial driver, the interface connects thru

[Flightgear-devel] Building joystick hardware

2005-06-02 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi everybody. Some weeks ago, I dug thru my spare-parts-box and found a small assembly of an 8 channel 10 bit A/D converter using a LTC1090 and a few other parts. I dug a bit further and out came some pots, knobs, switches, some pieces of wood, a few screews and a bit of wire. I glued it all

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Building joystick hardware

2005-06-02 Thread Danie Heath
YES PLEASE !! and if i may be so bold to request how i would go about building yoke and pedals ... Kind Regards Danie Heath On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 13:18 +0200, Torsten Dreyer wrote: Hi everybody. Some weeks ago, I dug thru my spare-parts-box and found a small assembly of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Building joystick hardware

2005-06-02 Thread Martin Spott
Torsten Dreyer wrote: Some weeks ago, I dug thru my spare-parts-box and found a small assembly of an 8 channel 10 bit A/D converter using a LTC1090 and a few other parts. [...] If anyone here on the list (or is there a hardware-builder list?) is interested in rebuilding this little toy, I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Building joystick hardware

2005-06-02 Thread Ron Lange
On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 13:30:20 +0200, Danie Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: YES PLEASE !! and if i may be so bold to request how i would go about building yoke and pedals ... Just a proposal... I've extended my Logitech WingMan Extreme3D Digital by putting 3.5mm (stereo,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Building joystick hardware

2005-06-02 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Some pictures and more infos can be found here: http://www.t3r.de/fghw/ I am currently working on the page with the driver sources and a description how to build it. Hi everybody. Some weeks ago, I dug thru my spare-parts-box and found a small assembly of an 8 channel 10 bit A/D converter

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Building joystick hardware

2005-06-02 Thread Torsten Dreyer
[..] Hey, LTC apparently has a tradition of making chips for easy application. I never knew they have such a nice A/D converter. I'd be primarily interested to know how you did the driver. Did you pick one from the Linux kernel and changed a few bits or did you build one from scratch ?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Building joystick hardware

2005-06-02 Thread Paul Surgeon
That's a really nice setup. I'd be interested in seeing how the device driver code works. I've been thinking about building a decent rudder setup and using a USB HID interface but the software side of USB protocols is really daunting to a below average programmer like me. Paul On Thursday, 2