I've been emailing back and forth with Act-Labs about the light gun and linux 
support.

The gun is hooked up to a box which you hook up to the VGA port and then run a 
pass-through to the monitor.  It then hooks up to the USB port and acts as a 
normal HID mouse.  If you press the trigger on the screen it sends a left 
mouse button and if you press it off the screen it sends a right mouse 
button.  It will not work with a TV.

Based on the conversations that I have had with them there should be little or 
no linux kernel driver work to do and some minor xmame input tweaking.

They are having someone do the mame work for windows, but since the input and 
video code is not common between mame and xmame there might need to be some 
tweaking.

It should be pretty easy to get it working though!!!  Just in time for area 51 
to :-)

Craig


On Thursday 25 April 2002 03:42 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 25 Apr 2002, Paul Priest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It used lightguns, so either an analogue joy or mouse for input.
> >
> > (Or one of those new Act-labs guns under Windows)
>
> do those work well?
>
> they (act-labs) seem open to helping someone build linux
> drivers. might be a cool way to get into USB and device
> drivers.
>
> henri
>
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