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

[Miro K. <mir...@gm...>]

Well, you can map the joypad to A, B, C, D, E and run a text editor to see
whether you get clean A/B/C/D/E keystrokes and not A+E or B+E.

Then go to Atari800 and set A, B, C, D, E as the keyboard joystick. If you
still see trigger events, then it becomes interesting.

Otherwise it would seem that qjoypad has troubles with some specific keys
(like left control).

On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 at 16:17, Greg Hall <gre...@ba...> wrote:

> 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 To me it looks like a bug in qjoypad (looks quite outdated judging from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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