Re: [Plib-users] I-Force

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

jo...@kj... wrote:
> 
> Is I-Force driver compatability not yet implemented in PLIB?

I didn't know that there was Linux kernel support for that stuff yet.

> js_demo doesn't detect any joystick when my WingMan Force 3D joystick
> is connected. The Linux USB subsystem has detected it and connected it
> to the I-Force driver.

PLIB reads /dev/input/js0 for joystick zero...if it can't find that, it
looks in /dev/js0.  We use the standard joystick API for reading it.

I guess if that doesn't work then either your joystick isn't correctly
installed - or perhaps they changed the API for joysticks with I-Force
capability without providing a fallback to the older protocol.

I'd be suprised if they did the latter.

I have interfaced USB joysticks to PLIB before - so I know that works...
but those were not force-feedback devices.

> Will generic joystick capability for joysticks using I-Fore be
> implemented into PLIB? (Or is it already?)

There certainly isn't any force-feedback code in PLIB (although if
it now works under both Windoze and Linux, then that's a good case
for us investigating it.

Does anyone out there have a stick like this and would like to investigate?

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