Re: USB joystick?

2006-06-10 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 May 2006 12:50, Curt Howland was heard to say: > Can anyone suggest a USB joystick that works? Running up-to-date > Sid. Just to finish for the archives, the joystick shows up fine in Kcontrol joystick, it's detected jus

Re: USB joystick?

2006-05-28 Thread Christoph Nenning
Am Samstag, 27. Mai 2006 18:50 schrieb Curt Howland: > I was so glad to see the Privateer port to Linux that I'd like to get > a joystick to play it. http://priv.solsector.net/ Unfortunately, my > machine doesn't have a joystick port. There are USB joysticks, but I > didn&#

Re: USB joystick?

2006-05-27 Thread Curt Howland
Curt- On Saturday 27 May 2006 21:00 it was so written: > You can probably use one of those usb game port adapters from radio > shack.Its only 7 bucks. > > On 5/27/06, Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was so glad to see the Privateer port to Linux that I'd like

USB joystick?

2006-05-27 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was so glad to see the Privateer port to Linux that I'd like to get a joystick to play it. http://priv.solsector.net/ Unfortunately, my machine doesn't have a joystick port. There are USB joysticks, but I didn't see "joysti

Re: Joystick not recognized by games

2005-09-30 Thread Freddy Freeloader
As an update on this I installed the joystick package and when running jstest it registers all events, as they happen with the joystick. All buttons work. jstest reports all joystick movement correctly. It's just that no games are recognizing it. Freddy Freeloader wrote:

Re: Joystick not recognized by games

2005-09-30 Thread Freddy Freeloader
mixture of sid and Sarge with the 2.6.8-2-386 kernel, but have only the packages required for Firefox 1.07 installed from sid. I had a similar problem with a Joystick a while back, it wasn't even creating the dev node. It still didn't work when I created it manually because the pe

Re: Joystick not recognized by games

2005-09-30 Thread Wackojacko
ns are valid: http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~vojtech/input/ . I'm running a mixture of sid and Sarge with the 2.6.8-2-386 kernel, but have only the packages required for Firefox 1.07 installed from sid. I had a similar problem with a Joystick a while back, it wasn't even creating the dev node

Joystick not recognized by games

2005-09-29 Thread Freddy Freeloader
I have a Gravis Blackhawk that isn't being recognized by any games. It is, however, recognized at boot as recorded by dmesg. The following modules are loaded at boot: joydev, grip, emu10k-gp, gameport, and ns558. I'm running a Soundblaster Live! sound card. There is a /dev/input/js0. So,

Re: No joystick device nodes - SOLVED

2005-07-18 Thread Wackojacko
inder/joydev/gameport in various order without success. Finally tracked down the problem to with permissions on the js device nodes. They are created with 600 permissions but all the other devices in /dev/input have 660. So to get the joystick working, as root (sudo) cd /dev/input/ MAKEDEV js

No joystick device nodes

2005-06-18 Thread Wackojacko
Final problem for today at least. I cannot get my sidewinder precision pro to work with Linux. I have a Asus A8N-SLI NF4 motherboard and I am using the latest Nvidia drivers (0301 I think) but no device nodes are created. I've tried creating the device nodes manually and modprobe sidewinder/j

Re: Joystick as Pointer

2005-06-13 Thread Sven Arvidsson
Robert Norton wrote: > Is there a package that will allow me to use a standard joystick to > control the mouse pointer? This would be useful for people who suffer > from RSI related to mouse usage - joysticks are typically more > ergonomic. A quick visit to Google found something cal

Joystick as Pointer

2005-06-13 Thread Robert Norton
Hi, Is there a package that will allow me to use a standard joystick to control the mouse pointer? This would be useful for people who suffer from RSI related to mouse usage - joysticks are typically more ergonomic. If no such package exists I am keen to start work on one, but need some advice

Re: Re: microsoft sidewinder joystick and linux

2004-05-16 Thread Josh Gilbert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote: > Sorry... well you're right, i went to that page and the joystick is working > fine when i test cat /dev/input/js0...(i even had the kernel modules already installed...) > The thing is, the sn

Re: Joystick question

2004-02-18 Thread Paul Stolp
Neither will see my gamepad. If I run jstest --normal /dev/js0 > it sees the gamepad and lets me test it. xmame displays an error that In the xmame makefile, in the "Input Devices" section, you may need to uncomment the joystick type you want (probably JOY_I386 = 1 for i386) W

Re: Joystick question

2004-02-18 Thread lionel . victor
Selon Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 23:55:26 -0500 > Kevin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If I run jstest --normal /dev/js0 it sees the gamepad and lets me test > > it. xmame displays an error that no joystick is found so

Re: Joystick question

2004-02-18 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 23:55:26 -0500 Kevin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I run jstest --normal /dev/js0 it sees the gamepad and lets me test > it. xmame displays an error that no joystick is found so it disables > joystick support. This is driving me crazy. I am not

Joystick question

2004-02-17 Thread Kevin Johnson
and lets me test it. xmame displays an error that no joystick is found so it disables joystick support. This is driving me crazy. I am not even sure where to look. Thanks for any help possible. Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Re: microsoft sidewinder joystick and linux

2004-02-02 Thread Frederico Rodrigues Abraham
On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 15:23, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote: >Is there a way i can make my USB Microsoft Sidewinder Joystick work > in linux? No, right ? >Thanks >-- Fred I see you haven't done even a basic amount of research on the subject. Most USB joysticks,

Re: microsoft sidewinder joystick and linux

2004-02-01 Thread Chris Eisley
On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 15:23, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote: >Is there a way i can make my USB Microsoft Sidewinder Joystick work > in linux? No, right ? >Thanks >-- Fred I see you haven't done even a basic amount of research on the subject. Most USB joysticks,

Re: microsoft sidewinder joystick and linux

2004-02-01 Thread Edward Murrell
On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 12:23, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote: >Is there a way i can make my USB Microsoft Sidewinder Joystick work > in linux? No, right ? >Thanks >-- Fred I have one on my desk, it's worked fine ever since the generic USB joystick (since that'

microsoft sidewinder joystick and linux

2004-02-01 Thread Frederico Rodrigues Abraham
Is there a way i can make my USB Microsoft Sidewinder Joystick work in linux? No, right ? Thanks -- Fred -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Joystick devices in 2.6.0-test4

2003-10-03 Thread Nicos Gollan
I found a strange thing in kernel 2.6.0-test4. The joystick devices that should be /dev/input/js* are directly in /dev (so I have /dev/js*). I have enabled the joystick interface (INPUT_JOYDEV) which says in the help it would create the devices in /dev/input. And yes, I am using devfs. Right

Re: Problem using joystick after upgrading to kernel 2.4

2002-10-07 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, Joe Nahmias wrote: > I am running testing, and I just upgraded to kernel version > 2.4.19 from 2.2.21. I have managed to get all my devices working except > for my analog joystick (MadCatz, 2-axis, 4-button) which hooks up to the > game port on my SoundBlaster PCI 128 (e

Problem using joystick after upgrading to kernel 2.4

2002-10-07 Thread Joe Nahmias
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Re: devfs joystick question

2002-05-06 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 04:31:34AM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > Just what *is* the path to the joystick device in /dev under devfs? I > do have my modules installed for it and everything, though I compiled > them post-reboot... I think you need to look for /dev/input/j

Re: devfs joystick question

2002-05-05 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 04:31, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > Just what *is* the path to the joystick device in /dev under devfs? I > do have my modules installed for it and everything, though I compiled > them post-reboot... > please, please, someone answer this :) pre

devfs joystick question

2002-05-05 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
Just what *is* the path to the joystick device in /dev under devfs? I do have my modules installed for it and everything, though I compiled them post-reboot... -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Joystick attached to the USB port

2001-12-18 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My joystick/gamepad attached to the USB port doesn't work on my linux box (i386). I made my own kernel with USB support (usbcore.o, usb-hdci.o, hid.o, input.o, joydev.o, etc.) and I tested it using: jstest /dev/input/js1 jstest /dev/input/js2 jstest /dev/inpu

Joystick attached to the USB port

2001-12-18 Thread lorenzo . zampese
My joystick/gamepad attached to the USB port doesn't work on my linux box (i386). I made my own kernel with USB support (usbcore.o, usb-hdci.o, hid.o, input.o, joydev.o, etc.) and I tested it using: jstest /dev/input/js1 jstest /dev/input/js2 jstest /dev/input/js3 and every time it report

Re: Joystick attached to USB port doesn't work

2001-12-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include David Bellows wrote on Fri Dec 14, 2001 um 02:53:41PM: > everything seemed to be installed and recognized with my USB joystick > but no applications would work with it. So here's what worked for me. > Most applications look for the joystick at: /dev/js0 not > /dev

Re: Joystick attached to USB port doesn't work

2001-12-14 Thread David Bellows
On Friday 14 December 2001 09:16 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My joystick/gamepad attached to the USB port doesn't work on my > Debian (i386). > I made my own kernel with USB support (usbcore.o, usb-hdci.o, hid.o, > input.o, joydev.o, etc.) and I tested it using: > >

Joystick attached to USB port doesn't work

2001-12-14 Thread lorenzo . zampese
My joystick/gamepad attached to the USB port doesn't work on my Debian (i386). I made my own kernel with USB support (usbcore.o, usb-hdci.o, hid.o, input.o, joydev.o, etc.) and I tested it using: jstest /dev/input/js1 jstest /dev/input/js2 jstest /dev/input/js3 and every time it reported

Joystick on pci sound cards ...

2001-09-15 Thread Michael Heldebrant
I've tried getting the joystick port on both a hoontech yamaha compatible card and now a hercules cs46xx card which is supposedly supported by the cs461x joystick port module. I can never get it to work. Anyone have any pointers? I've checked the kernel docs and google for anything of

Flightgear with joystick

2001-05-05 Thread Christoph Simon
Hi! I'm trying to run flightgear with an USB Sidewinder on debian sid. I installed the joystick package and provided the relevant drivers in a custom kernel 2.4.4. First I ran jstest which seemed to react properly, although showing for the first two axis in a range of 2^10 rathern than that

Problem with Joystick and devfs

2001-05-05 Thread Jeremy Rosen
Hello everybody I am using a testing debian with a 2.4.3 kernel, and devfs installed, but I can't make my joystick work. My joystick is installed on the gameport of my sound card : sb 64 pci devfs dosn't seem to detect it. Here are the few clues I have. I think I have installed

joystick in kernel 2.4.2

2001-03-12 Thread Matheson Cameron
Hey, I'm trying to get my joystick working in kernel 2.4.2. This is a summary of everything I've done. +Compiled the kernel with analog joystick support, and the USB joystick support (my joystick goes into the gameport, but I read somewhere that you need to enable USB for joystick eve

joystick

2000-11-24 Thread mctrader
hi, I have a 15-pol joystick and I want to plug it on my soundcard. So first i tried to installed joy-analog.o but it didnt work so I tried joystick.o . I think the probleme is on my soundcard. It is a ISA card. Hope you can help me MM

Joystick troubles

2000-11-11 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hi, I am trying to get a joystick (any joystick) connected to my Woody system and I was hoping to get some helpful hints from you people. I have a SB Awe32 and I am trying to get a Logitech Wingman to work with its gameport. I tried the same with a Sidewinder pad - same result. I compiled support

Re: joystick

2000-11-07 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 08:46:54PM -0500, jason lee wrote: > hello all, > i'm new to linux and i'm trying to get my microsoft sidewinder working > under debian 2.2. i've recompiled my kernel with: > make menuconfig (enabled joystick support; built-in sidewinder suppo

joystick

2000-11-05 Thread jason lee
hello all, i'm new to linux and i'm trying to get my microsoft sidewinder working under debian 2.2. i've recompiled my kernel with: make menuconfig (enabled joystick support; built-in sidewinder support) make dep make clean make bzImage make modules make modules_install after

Getting my joystick to work

2000-02-29 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I upgraded my kernel, and this time I added joystick support. It does work, because when the kernel boots it detects my joystick, but I can't create the joystick device. If I type ./MAKEDEV js, I get the error: ./MAKEDEV: device: unknown major number for Joystick What can I do t

Configuring Joystick

2000-02-29 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey,   I'm trying to get my joystick working in Linux.  The kernel detects it as startup (as js0), but I have no js0 device.  I did ./MAKEDEV js, but I got the error:   ./MAKEDEV:  device: unknown major number for Joystick.   What does this mean?   thanks, Cameron Matheson

Joystick attached to Sound Blaster

2000-02-09 Thread lorenzo . zampese
Hi! I have got Linux Debian 2.1 (slink) on a Pentium with a Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16. I compiled by myself the kernel 2.2.13 and I enabled the joystick support and I installed the joystick package too. All applications don't recognize my Thrust game pad attached to the SB16's

Joystick problem

2000-01-31 Thread lorenzo . zampese
When I run 'jscal 0' or 'jscal 1', I obtain an error message like this : "operation not supported by device". I installed the joystick package, and I am sure I have got the joystick devices (/dev/js0 /dev/js1). I compiled by my-self kernel 2.2.13 on my Debian 2

MIDI/Joystick port set-up to use Voyetra Midi Orchestrator

2000-01-14 Thread Dave Grimm
Hey, discovered this address while looking for the way to switch FROM Joystick TO Midi on my Joystick/Midi port so I can use Voyetra Midi Orchestrator (and then, perhaps other software as well.) I have the necessary cabling. Can anyone help? Much thanks in advance. Dave Davis

Re: Joystick on a SB32

1999-11-30 Thread David Blackman
It works fine, it always has, I was loading the josytick driver with no joystick attached tahnks, --dave On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > "Ingles, Raymond" wrote: > > > > From: David Blackman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > I have my SB32 aut

RE: Joystick on a SB32

1999-11-30 Thread Ingles, Raymond
> From: Adam C Powell IV [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Ingles, Raymond" wrote: > > > From: David Blackman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > I have my SB32 autoconfigured by my BIOS, with sound support > > > in my kernel, how can I get the joystick port o

Re: Joystick on a SB32

1999-11-30 Thread Adam C Powell IV
"Ingles, Raymond" wrote: > > From: David Blackman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I have my SB32 autoconfigured by my BIOS, with sound support > > in my kernel, how can I get the joystick port on my SB32 to work > > without turning off auto-PNP in BIOS, and isapnp

RE: Joystick on a SB32

1999-11-30 Thread Ingles, Raymond
> From: David Blackman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I have my SB32 autoconfigured by my BIOS, with sound support > in my kernel, how can I get the joystick port on my SB32 to work > without turning off auto-PNP in BIOS, and isapnp'ing it. I'm not sure you can. Somehow the

Joystick on a SB32

1999-11-25 Thread David Blackman
I have my SB32 autoconfigured by my BIOS, with sound support in my kernel, how can I get the joystick port on my SB32 to work without turning off auto-PNP in BIOS, and isapnp'ing it. --dave

Re: Joystick

1998-12-13 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- Michael Beattie wrote about "Joystick" > > [snip] > > Linux quake does not have native support for the joystick. The only > way to get the joystick to work in quake is to use the joy2key program > at http:

Re: Joystick

1998-12-12 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 11:17:25AM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: > > Or, someone could suggest another game which uses a joystick that I could > try. > snes9x, a Super Nintendo Emulator, makes good use of joysticks, find it here: http://www.snes9x.com good

Re: Joystick

1998-12-11 Thread servis
*- Michael Beattie wrote about "Joystick" > > I've downloaded, compiled and installed the new Joystick drivers, version > 1.2.13. Works fine. I want to try out the joystick in a game, to check it > actually works properly. I have tried quake2, but no matter what I do, I

Joystick

1998-12-11 Thread Michael Beattie
I've downloaded, compiled and installed the new Joystick drivers, version 1.2.13. Works fine. I want to try out the joystick in a game, to check it actually works properly. I have tried quake2, but no matter what I do, I cannot get quake2 to use the joystick, mainly because I can fi

Re: joystick

1998-09-18 Thread servis
*- Phillip Neumann wrote about "joystick" | | | I want to use my joystick here in linux. How can i do that? or where can | i found information? | See http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~vojtech/joystick/ I use it with the 2.0.35 kernel but it also works with the 2.1.x series. You can

joystick

1998-09-18 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hello, I want to use my joystick here in linux. How can i do that? or where can i found information? Thanks, -- __ / / / Phillip Neumann

Re: frivolity: the joystick

1998-04-01 Thread Jaakko Niemi
rnels have support for this, and for 2.0 series there are patches at least in: ftp://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/pub/local/vojtech/joystick/ Now only if I could get mine working with Quake2 :) --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: frivolity: the joystick

1998-03-31 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
h the kernel > build, i see no drivers. > > Is there a way to get it to produce xevents taht I could map to keys? First you need kernel support for the device - the hardware HOWTO has location of the patches for the kernel joystick drivers. Then, I'd suggest checking out the XInpu

frivolity: the joystick

1998-03-31 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
OK, I had to do it. Radio shack had $15 joysticks with a $15 rebate, and I took one for the kids machine at home, which runs the darkside (and for which I have a flight simulator). About 3 days later, the plug was pulled on my consulting project, and the machine went back. So now I want to c

Re: Use Joystick to reboot.

1997-08-08 Thread Nils Rennebarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 7 Aug 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On 7 Aug, Brian K Servis wrote: >> activity. I still could move the pointer though. My only solution at >> the time was to push the reset button. If I had had a joystick driver >> active I

Re: Use Joystick to reboot.

1997-08-07 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
On 7 Aug, Brian K Servis wrote: > > I had thought of doing as you did, adding a shutdown menu option. I > assume you are running as a regular user. How did you set it up so > that 'you' could start the shutdown process? > I user the "super" package (I guess you could use sudo as well). This i

Re: Use Joystick to reboot.

1997-08-07 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
On 7 Aug, Brian K Servis wrote: > activity. I still could move the pointer though. My only solution at > the time was to push the reset button. If I had had a joystick driver > active I could have started a clean shutdown which would have saved me > some work when the system came

Re: Use Joystick to reboot.

1997-08-07 Thread Brian K Servis
Daniel J. Mashao writes: > >On 6 Aug 1997, Linh Dang wrote: > >> >> I remember having seen somewhere that you can use the joystick to make a >> clean >> reboot. That's handy when X freezes and your keyboard and mouse get stuck. >> Any >> inf

Re: Use Joystick to reboot.

1997-08-07 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
On 6 Aug 1997, Linh Dang wrote: > > I remember having seen somewhere that you can use the joystick to make a clean > reboot. That's handy when X freezes and your keyboard and mouse get stuck. Any > info, pointer ? That happens in OS/2 but I would not expect to see this in L

Re: Use Joystick to reboot.

1997-08-06 Thread Dima
>>Linh Dang wrote: > >I remember having seen somewhere that you can use the joystick to make a cl= >ean >reboot. That's handy when X freezes and your keyboard and mouse get stuck. = >Any >info, pointer ? Did you try searching on sunsite or tsx-11? It's bee

Use Joystick to reboot.

1997-08-06 Thread Linh Dang
I remember having seen somewhere that you can use the joystick to make a clean reboot. That's handy when X freezes and your keyboard and mouse get stuck. Any info, pointer ? Thanx -- = Linh

Re: Depmod and joystick problems

1997-06-29 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Johannes Martinez wrote: > > I thought i had no problems upgrading to 1.3 but this may be one of them. > > First my joystick doesn't work. Yup, sounds like a small > inconvenience but checking it out i saw that depmod returns a problem > readi

Depmod and joystick problems

1997-06-28 Thread Johannes Martinez
I thought i had no problems upgrading to 1.3 but this may be one of them. First my joystick doesn't work. Yup, sounds like a small inconvenience but checking it out i saw that depmod returns a problem reading ELF header saying no such file or directory, doesn't tell me

Joystick support?

1997-03-17 Thread johannes martinez
Are there any deb packages for joystick support? Or maybe something on how to write a driver. I really would like to be able to use my gravis gamepad pro, and it doesn't seem like it would be to hard of a feat to perform. johannes martinez

Joystick in X Windows

1997-01-01 Thread Alexander Gieg
Hi. In the file XF86Config, section "module", is write that to use joystick there is the need to load the module xf86Jstk.so and some other things. It says also that there is need for a device /dev/joy?, and there is the need for kernel support for joystick. I've a joystick port