Joystick device for Linux
Arne Stoffregen
Sorry if this has been thoroughly discussed before, but
I wanted to know, if anyone has bothered to write a joy-
stick device for Linux. I haven't looked at the source,
but I cannot remember any file with a name like that.
Cleverly I have looked for a /dev/joystick and found none,
so I assumed it does not exist. :-))
I am writing on a 3D kind of a program and would like to
rotate objects with the joystick.
If anyone could give me a hint on who did this before or
how to write a device (I think there is a FAQ for that??)
I would be grateful.
Thanks
Arne
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Dauphin
There's been a joystick driver available for linux since before 0.99.6
And the devices are js0 & js1, btw. :)
tsx.mit.edu:/pub/linux/patches/joystick-0.5.tar.z
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Ken Pizzini
Arne Stoffregen <sto...@uni-muenster.de> wrote:
>I wanted to know, if anyone has bothered to write a joy-
>stick device for Linux.
There is an oldish one:
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/patches/joystick-0.5.tar.z
I think this was relative to the 0.99p10 release of Linux,
so the patches won't install directly (changed file tree
structure, e.g.). It'll get you started, anyway.
--Ken Pizzini
Doug DeJulio
Dauphin <ro...@Brindisi.rose-hulman.edu> wrote:
>There's been a joystick driver available for linux since before 0.99.6
>And the devices are js0 & js1, btw. :)
>
>tsx.mit.edu:/pub/linux/patches/joystick-0.5.tar.z
So, a PC joystick works because there are two trim pots in there,
providing variable resistance which depends on the X and Y positions
of the stick, and the joystick card measures this variable resistance.
Has anyone done anything FUN with this under Linux? Like for example,
sticking a thermistor of some sort on there to make something that
monitors the temperature?
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Kai Harrekilde-Petersen
sto...@uni-muenster.de (Arne Stoffregen) writes:
Hi world!
Sorry if this has been thoroughly discussed before, but
I wanted to know, if anyone has bothered to write a joy-
stick device for Linux. I haven't looked at the source,
but I cannot remember any file with a name like that.
Cleverly I have looked for a /dev/joystick and found none,
so I assumed it does not exist. :-))
I am writing on a 3D kind of a program and would like to
rotate objects with the joystick.
If anyone could give me a hint on who did this before or
how to write a device (I think there is a FAQ for that??)
I would be grateful.
A hacker's HOWTO on device drivers are included in the KHG (Kernel Hacker's
Guide). I'm looking forward to your joystick device driver!
Kai
Jeff Tranter
Hi world!
Sorry if this has been thoroughly discussed before, but
I wanted to know, if anyone has bothered to write a joy-
stick device for Linux. I haven't looked at the source,
but I cannot remember any file with a name like that.
Cleverly I have looked for a /dev/joystick and found none,
so I assumed it does not exist. :-))
I am writing on a 3D kind of a program and would like to
rotate objects with the joystick.
If anyone could give me a hint on who did this before or
how to write a device (I think there is a FAQ for that??)
I would be grateful.
It has been done. See
tsx11.mit.edu:/pub/Linux/patches/joystick-0.5.tar.z
These patches are for a few kernel revisions back, but it shouldn't be
too hard too apply them to a recent kernel. I believe I applied them
to 0.99pl13.
Jeff
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Eyal Lebedinsky
I don't remember the name of it but there IS a joystick driver. Last
time I looked in WAS on tsx-11...grep...grep...grep.. Here:
In the /patches directory of the Linux part: joystick-0.5.tar.z.
My ls file is from early November so it should still be there.
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Dennis Flaherty
Jeff Tranter <tra...@Software.Mitel.COM> wrote:
> In article <1993Dec15....@rz.uni-hildesheim.de> sto...@uni-muenster.de (Arne Stoffregen) writes:
>
> > Sorry if this has been thoroughly discussed before, but
> > I wanted to know, if anyone has bothered to write a joy-
> > stick device for Linux. I haven't looked at the source,
> > but I cannot remember any file with a name like that.
> > Cleverly I have looked for a /dev/joystick and found none,
> > so I assumed it does not exist. :-))
>
> tsx11.mit.edu:/pub/Linux/patches/joystick-0.5.tar.z
>
> These patches are for a few kernel revisions back, but it shouldn't be
> too hard too apply them to a recent kernel. I believe I applied them
> to 0.99pl13.
>
> Jeff
I wonder why these patches aren't in the standard kernel. Do your
patches for pl13 work with pl14?
> > I am writing on a 3D kind of a program and would like to
> > rotate objects with the joystick.
> > If anyone could give me a hint on who did this before or
> > how to write a device (I think there is a FAQ for that??)
> > I would be grateful.
This is probably more of an XFree86 question. If the standard
Linux kernel supported joysticks, then XFree86 could use one as
an input device.
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Thomas Aaron Insel
> This is probably more of an XFree86 question. If the standard
> Linux kernel supported joysticks, then XFree86 could use one as
> an input device.
Probably not. The mouse drivers don't provide a standardized output,
they just make it possible to read the mouse as a device. XFree has
to interpret each kind of mouse seperately.
You could write some sort of interface program than read joystick
input, translated it into mouse-speak, and spit it out through a named
pipe. A similar method was once used with PS/2 mice and XFree.
Tom
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