Re: [Flightgear-users] Yoke and rudder pedal recommendation?

[Sid B. <sb...@bl...>]

On 29/12/11 12:18, Durk Talsma wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 26 Dec 2011, at 04:04, Patrick Callahan wrote:
>
>> I'm having great luck with the saitek yoke and quadrant.
>> The pedals however are another story.
>>
>> Under Ubuntu linux I get errors during boot indicating read errors
>> After booting, the pedals are not recognized in flightgear.
>> However if I unplug the pedals' usb cable and plug it back in, and then restart flightgear it works just fine.
>> The problem persists regardless of which usb port I use.
>>
>
> I'm having the same issue here, but found that a completely cold boot (i.e. cutting the power by using a master switch on my power cable after shut down, and turning it on just prior to booting) helps to resolve the problem.
>
> Cheers,
> Durk
Durk,
This looks like the same problem I had way back with CH Yoke and Pedals, 
see my post 2th. Dec.
It is due to the devices not being supported in the kernel.

The RUMBLEPAD is the only Saitek device supported currently. In order to 
get support for the  devices you have into the kernel you can email the 
lines from "lsusb" output to the linux-usb mailing list so they can add 
them.

/usr/src/linux-3.2-rc7/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h
------------------------------------------------------------------
#define USB_VENDOR_ID_SAITEK            0x06a3
#define USB_DEVICE_ID_SAITEK_RUMBLEPAD  0xff17

/usr/src/linux-3.2-rc7/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-quirks.c
------------------------------------------------------------------------
          { USB_VENDOR_ID_SAITEK, USB_DEVICE_ID_SAITEK_RUMBLEPAD,
HID_QUIRK_BADPAD },

Regards
Sid.

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