Re: [Prboom-users] using a usb joystick on prboom

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Thank you all for the help.  I fixed it up with a mail gotten a few days
back, simply creating a symlink from /dev/input/js0 to /dev/js0 like the
mails stated.

As for playing Doom with a keyboard, I grew up playing this game, and
even back in the day of my 486 I used a controller to play.  It is about
the ONLY pc game I've ever seen that actually fits the controller nicely.
That and I can't get over the fact that a keyboard is not meant for
gaming. ;)

r0ni
http://www.parodius.com/~roni/

On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Colin Phipps wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 01:21:00AM -0800, Jay Lanagan wrote:
> > I have a question for anyone out there who is currently able to use a
> > joystick with prboom.
> >
> > I am running PrBoom 2.2.2 with all SDL libararies installed that are
> > required.  And I am trying to get my Gravis Gamepad Pro USB to work with
> > PrBoom.  I have verified the joystick as being ocmpiled into my kernel and
> > working using 'cat /dev/input/js0' but as I've noticed my joysticks
> > 'location' if you will is not standard (by this I mean not /dev/js0)
>
> /dev/input/js0 is the new standard location for joystick I think, but
> most programs are still using the old location. On my system (Mandrake
> 8.1) the distro has already created a link /dev/js0 to /dev/input/js0.
>
> > Is there any way (editing the source maybe?) that I can get PrBoom to read
> > from /dev/input/js0 to find my joystick? or has anyone gotten one to work
> > and could offer me some advice?
>
> Well I just broke out my old analog joystick and gave it a go, and it
> works fine with PrBoom. Since it all goes through the same device node I
> suspect a USB joystick should work too.
>
> So I suggest you:
> ln -s input/js0 /dev/js0
> edit prboom.cfg and set use_joystick to 1
> and try it :-)
>
> That said, joystick has never been a great control system for Doom,
> although it depends on the quality of the stick I guess.
>
> --
> Colin Phipps <cp...@do...>   http://www.cph.demon.co.uk/
>