-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 26 July 2004 17.27, Victor B. Putz wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 04:44:30PM +0200, Anthony Whitehead wrote: > > Ok, no replies, so I assume the XInput stuff is either well documented > > somewhere I've missed, or there are very few people who actually know > > how it works. Anyone know where there might be some good documentation > > for the XInput and input stuff in general? There is very little in the > > source package and even less that I could see on the x.mame.net site. > > > > Is the XInput module being actively developed? If not, I can bring > > it up as a > > possible project for our Society to work on. > > Anthony-- > > I wound up wrestling with this quite a bit getting a trackball to work > under XMame. There are two bits to getting this to work, and it's > oriented toward trackballs/mice. I have an Oscar Vortex spinner > working with this setup, though, so some of it should be relevant: > > First, establish your devices as mice under X in your XF86Config-4 > file. There are some gotchas here; here's an excerpt from mine: > > You have a slightly more complex setup with 4 spinners, but I think > you can do essentially the same thing, representing each one as a > separate mouse under X, assuming they send standard mouse-type > events. > > Good luck; should be fun once you get it up. > > -->VPutz Thanks for your reply, but thats exactly how its currently working for me. I can add complete new devices without much problem, the problem is assigning individual axis to input devices. Since a spinner only needs a single axis, then a single mouse can provide 2 spinners, one on the X and the other on the Y. Seems a real shame to have to use 4 USB inputs for 4 spinners when half of the axis will be unused. I'm hoping for config that in plain english would say:
XInput-trackball1-axis-x is spinner1 XInput-trackball1-axis-y is spinner2 XInput-trackball2-axis-x is spinner3 XInput-trackball2-axis-y is spinner4 If I can't get this to work I'm going to end up with a grand total of 11 USB connections for my analog devices =) and thats without a separate mouse and keyboard (not usually connected). - -- /Anthony Whitehead Unix Sysadmin PGP Key: http://www.solace.mh.se/~ant/ant.pubkey 1024D/1963012A 49C3 A871 43A8 B912 12D2 046E 8FCC 6062 1963 012A - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBBV6xj8xgYhljASoRAjZbAKCrZCuyLDCq0r6/lDCvWdfXS8KkJACffBMr KcAOa9BQTagbnsi8xnIID0Q= =plv8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Xmame mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://toybox.twisted.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/xmame
