Re: [Flightgear-users] Joystick suggestions

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

Georg Vollnhals wrote:
> Hal V. Engel schrieb:
>>> I already have each plugged into different USB hubs. I got the same
>>> problem with them attached directly. I have also tried them on 2 other
>>> Linux boxes with the same results. It stopped working normally around
>>> 2.6.14, but another reply I got on this list said it was working at
>>> 2.6.18 again, no luck here though.
>>> Regards
>>> Sid.
>>>     
>> Yes exactly.  It was not working on earlier versions for me either but I can't 
>> say if 2.6.14 was when this happened.  Then It was working for me in 2.6.18 
>> and stopped again in 2.6.19.  And did not work again until 2.6.22.  It is 
>> however a minor issue as others have pointed out because there is a simple 
>> work around.
>>
>>   
> Hi,
> there seems a general problem with Linux and USB joysticks. My both USB
> joysticks (stick and pedals) are recognized when booting OpenSUSE 10.2
> (was the same with 10.1) but have lost their calibration. There has
> never been a problem with WinXP some years ago with the same hardware.
> Melchior Franz helped me out with a trick to set the saved calibration
> via a script on booting, which does not work for me but I modified his
> hints a little and an now run a little script before using the joysticks
> the first time and all is fine.
> All other USB stuff works fine without problems.
> 
> Regards
> Georg EDDW
> 
It first happened when the kernel input layer was changed. They get 
recognised on boot up, but the controls are dead. With jscal it says 
they are broken. CPU's XP2800+ through to AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core 
Processor 6000+
Regards
Sid.
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