[Xmame] Joystick + Screensaver issues...

[Brad Johnson]

	I recently bought a Logitech Wingman Rumblepad for my computer,  
and I've been having some issues that hopefully someone can help me  
with... First of all, on occasion, when using the analog stick (the  
left one), it seems to eventually lose it's sensitivity, sometimes to  
the point where I can't move down any more (However, it's never given  
me problems moving in other directions). Switching back to the D-pad  
will at least make things playable again, but has anyone else had this  
happen with analog sticks? After this has happened, I've tried running  
jscal to see if the centering was affected, but it seems to work  
properly after leaving XMAME. I haven't noticed this happen in any  
other programs, but I haven't really used the joystick for much else  
yet, so it could be a bug in the drivers for all I know (In case it's  
of importance, the joystick works through USB using the joydev and hid  
kernel modules... I should probably also point out that I'm still using  
XMAME 0.70. Have their been any recent changes to the joystick handling  
since then?).

	Also, I was recently playing Knights of the Round, and every 5  
minutes my screensaver would kick in. I'm using the Linux joystick  
interface, so I guess X Windows never listens to the joystick to see if  
I'm actually doing anything. Aside from configuring the joystick  
through the X Input layer, or turning off XScreenSaver before starting  
XMAME, is there any way to get around this?

	Finally, this gamepad has a throttle on it... actually, it's  
just a crummy slider, but I was thinking it might be interesting to use  
it in games like Arkanoid to control the paddle. However, I can't seem  
to get XMAME to think of it as an analog device, so the best I can get  
is relative motion... is there any way to get absolute motion from  
this? I realize it probably won't work very (certainly not better than  
my mouse), but I'd still like to give it a try. I was once able to get  
Arkanoid to do absolute positioning with the joystick itself, but never  
with the throttle... does the -analogstick option only affect the first  
two axes of the controller?

--Zero

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