Re: freebsd-hackers-digest V4 #576

1999-08-09 Thread Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth
I believe the joystick driver in FreeBSD could probably be redone, to support all the non-standard joysticks that many people (like me :) have. Having just recently converted to FreeBSD from Linux, though, I don't know the best way to go about it. Here are some ideas (sorry if my

Re: freebsd-hackers-digest V4 #576

1999-08-09 Thread Joe Groff
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: I believe the joystick driver in FreeBSD could probably be redone, to support all the non-standard joysticks that many people (like me :) have. Having just recently converted to FreeBSD from Linux,

Re: freebsd-hackers-digest V4 #576

1999-08-09 Thread Mark Newton
Stephen Hocking wrote: The recent chatter about allowing kldload to give modules arguments is very interesting, as it would allow one to specify port addresses and the like. Would it be useful to be able to be able to do something like this: kldload -t kernel_config

Re: freebsd-hackers-digest V4 #576

1999-08-09 Thread Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth
Stephen Well, I was going to try to roll my own for this, but it's always nice to know someone's already done it for me. :) I'm gone though for the next couple weeks though, so that'll be a nice thing to get back home to. Many thanks! Where will I be able to get it? -Joe Well,

Re: freebsd-hackers-digest V4 #576

1999-08-09 Thread Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth
I believe the joystick driver in FreeBSD could probably be redone, to support all the non-standard joysticks that many people (like me :) have. Having just recently converted to FreeBSD from Linux, though, I don't know the best way to go about it. Here are some ideas (sorry if my

Re: freebsd-hackers-digest V4 #576

1999-08-09 Thread Joe Groff
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: I believe the joystick driver in FreeBSD could probably be redone, to support all the non-standard joysticks that many people (like me :) have. Having just recently converted to FreeBSD from Linux,

Re: freebsd-hackers-digest V4 #576

1999-08-09 Thread Mark Newton
Stephen Hocking wrote: The recent chatter about allowing kldload to give modules arguments is very interesting, as it would allow one to specify port addresses and the like. Would it be useful to be able to be able to do something like this: kldload -t kernel_config

Re: freebsd-hackers-digest V4 #576

1999-08-09 Thread Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth
Stephen Well, I was going to try to roll my own for this, but it's always nice to know someone's already done it for me. :) I'm gone though for the next couple weeks though, so that'll be a nice thing to get back home to. Many thanks! Where will I be able to get it? -Joe Well,