Re: [Atari800-users] Cannot get my USB joystick to work

[Greg H. <gre...@ba...>]

Is there some kind of test app I can use that just checks the input and
prints what key(s) it thinks are pressed?

On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 11:15 AM Greg Hall <gre...@ba...> wrote:

> The thing I can't quite get my head around is that qjoypad works with
> every other emulator I've tried. As far as not being updated for 2 years,
> when was the last time x11 changed how input works :)
>
> I find it strange that even though I have no mapping of any joystick
> button to the space key (the key I use for fire), the joystick keeps
> jumping anyway. If I use the keyboard, I don't have that problem. And auto
> fire is off.
>
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 3:19 AM Miro Kropáček <mir...@gm...>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 at 02:44, Greg Hall <gre...@ba...> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello. I find the emulator works great on Arch Linux with XFCE except
>>> for one detail: if I map my USB joystick to keys using qjoypad, the
>>> emulator thinks the fire button is always pressed. So when running Jumpman,
>>> my guy constantly jumps.
>>>
>> To me it looks like a bug in qjoypad (looks quite outdated judging from
>> its website), I would try another application which takes roughly the same
>> keyboard input to see what qjoypad really sends. By default the trigger is
>> mapped to the left control key.
>>
>> Oh and of course check whether you don't have 'auto fire' enabled in the
>> options.
>>
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