[bzflag - Help] getting an analog joystick to work in linux

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By: shirokoff

hi folks -

I apologize if this is a silly question, but I've had a great deal of trouble
finding documentation on the subject. I've never tried to do anything with a
joystick before, so perhaps I'm missing something obvious.

I'm trying to get a cheap analog joystick to work in bzflag.  It's a 2 axis
/ 2 button joystick plugged into the game port, and other software recognizes
it without a problem. I'm using the modules joydev/ns558/analog with a 2.4.18
kernel (mandrake 8.2)  The joystick is on /dev/input/js0 and linked to /dev/js0.

I'm running bzflag-1.7g0.  The -joystick and -joystickname options suggest that
there is some sort of joystick support built in... but, so far I've been unable
to come up with an argument to joystickname that works.  I've tried device names,
driver names, and everything else I could think of.

In all cases, I get an error message similar to this:

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% bzflag -joystick yes -joystickname /dev/js0
       Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.0
       @@Created GLX Context..
       joystick '/dev/js0' not supported...
       loading fixedbr...

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Does anyone know what -joystickname expects?  Any examples of something that
works for any joystick at all?

I'm starting to hunt through the code now in search of it, but for me that may
take a very long while.

thanks,
Erik

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