joysick...

stephan schutter rhl at farorbit.com
Thu Sep 18 16:18:33 UTC 2003


the HID is loaded but unused... How can I make it talk to the joystic?

Klaasjan Brand wrote:

> stephan schutter wrote:
> 
>>
>> I can see the sidewinder in the hardware browser -- when I ran jstest...
> 
> 
> If it's an usb stick you'll see it on the list of usb devices anyway; 
> even without driver.
> Usb joysticks will be handled by the hid driver (the same one that 
> drivers keyboards and mice), so try loading that one.
> 
>> here is what I got:
>>
>> [stephans at imhothep dev]$ ls j*
>> jmouse  js0  js1  js2  js3  jsfd  jsflash
> 
> 
> The /dev entries are always available, even when the hardware is not 
> available...
> 
>> [root at imhothep dev]#  jstest --normal /dev/js0
>> jstest: No such device
> 
> 
> That one should work if you have a joystick attached and the right driver.
> 
>> [root at imhothep dev]#  jstest --normal /dev/jsflash
>> jstest: No such device
> 
> 
> If you were running a sun javastation you could have damaged your flash 
> rom ;) - ever heard of knowing what you're doing? Randomly probing /dev 
> entries won't help you much...
> 
> Klaasjan
> 
> 
> 
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