Re: Latest analog joystick code

[Vojtech P. <vo...@su...>]

On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 08:59:40PM -0400, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> > > Can I use my commodore joystick with linux? Only kidding.
> > 
> > Well, the QS-201 is a PC joystick, but *YES* you can use your commodore
> > joystick with Linux. :) Actually it's supported by the gamecon.c, db9.c and
> > turbografx.c. And the commodore-to-parallel adapters are easy to build.
> 
> Really :) Can you post where this info is to build this adapter. I have a
> few commodore joysticks. I also have a few atari 2600 paddles and
> joysticks too. He he. This is really cool.

linux/Documentation/joystick-parport.txt

> By the way your stuff works great. The only difference I have noticed is
> if I press ALT-F# more than once it will VT switch then print a capital
> letter where its position in the alphabet is #. At a login in prompt I get
> a ^[[A or ^[[B etc depending on which # VT we are one. I wonder if this is
> from the console code with the new emulation or from the keyboard driver. 
> Does this happen for a USB keyboard thats attached to a VT ? 

Yes, I know about this and will be looking for the cause. Somehow the
shift state isn't carried across different VT's. It might be a bug in my
changes to char/keyboard.c, but I doubt that - I kept them minimal.

Anyway, I'd like to rewrite (or better someone else to rewrite :)
keyboard.c - it's big, and complex, and doesn't have very clean
interface to the rest of the system.

Also, escape sequences are stored right in the keymaps, with I doubt
does come well with selectable VT emulations.

Oh, and last comment: The input subsystem supports more than 3 LEDs.
I've seen places in the VT code that limits this to 3 - this should be
eliminated.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs