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On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Sascha Hlusiak <saschahlusiak@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> Am Dienstag 17 März 2009 15:51:15 schrieb Andrew Gaydenko: |
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>> On Tuesday 17 March 2009 17:37:40 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>> > Andrew Gaydenko wrote: |
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>> > > Hi! |
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>> > > |
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>> > > Have bought a gamepad for my son - he plays supertuxkart (USB, "Black |
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>> > > Warrior Patriot Vibration Gamepad"), attached, added |
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>> > > |
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>> > > Section "InputDevice" |
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>> > > Identifier "joy1" |
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>> > > Driver "joystick" |
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>> > > EndSection |
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>> > > |
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>> > > to xorg.conf, restarted X (Gnome), and ... what? |
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>> > |
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>> > I guess it depends on the version of X.Org. With 1.5.x, you don't need |
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>> > an xorg.conf entry. You just plug it in and it works. The kernel must |
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>> > of course have joystick support. |
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> Little clarification. The xf86-input-joystick module is to use the joystick as |
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> an X input device to control the mouse cursor. It is not needed to play games |
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> or to use it in programs that directly use the joystick, like mplayer. |
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> You can use xf86-input-joystick to control the cursor or to use a joystick in |
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> games that do NOT know how to handle joysticks themselves. |
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> Neither you need joystick in INPUT_DEVICES, nor you need an entry in xorg.conf |
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> nor have xorg-server compiled with hal to use a joystick in games the usual |
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> way. Appropriate kernel modules and udev will do. |
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Good information, thank you. |
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