Re: hello...and MS-FF2...

[Bj|rn A. <d3a...@dt...>]

Quoting Rodrigo Damazio <cu...@uo...>:
>     Hello...I just joined this list...I'm interested in helping develop 
> support for the Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback 2...I have that 
> joystick

So do I, and I've been working on supporting it for the last week.
Have a look at the archives of this list and usb-devel.

> I don't know how to interpret some of the hex 
> data...I've realized some things, for example a phase that starts with 
> 01 is to report buttons and axes, "02 32 00" is when you hold the 
> stick(there's a little sensor), "02 36 00" is when you release it, and 
> so on...

Can you send me the dumps you have? That could really help me understand
some problems I'm having. I started from the other direction, from the 
spec down, instead of from the wires up.

>     On the bottom of the joystick it says it uses I-Force licensed to 
> Microsoft from Immersion Corp....is it just basic I-Force? If so how do 
> we get it to work in linux?? Has anyone worked on this?

Nope, it's a HID/PID device. There's specs for that on www.usb.org, and
that will help you understand your dumps.

>     Anyway, I'm willing to help implement this...

Great! I hope to have some patches by tomorrow.

/August.
-- 
Wrong on most accounts.  const Foo *foo; and Foo const *foo; mean the same: foo
being a pointer to const Foo.  const Foo const *foo; would mean the same but is
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Foo * const foo; respectively. -David Kastrup, comp.os.linux.development.system