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Date:      Wed, 25 Jan 1995 23:10:47 +1100 (EST)
From:      David Dawes <dawes@physics.su.oz.au>
To:        jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco)
Cc:        kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: Joystick driver available
Message-ID:  <199501251210.AA19077@physics.su.OZ.AU>
In-Reply-To: <9501251004.AA15631@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Jan 25, 95 04:04:37 am

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>> Thinking of possible applications (other than games) of a joy stick:
>> 
>> Input device for X11.
>> 
>> Does anyone know how to make X see it?
>
>It depends on how it is implemented (and how easily XF86 would be
>adapted)...  speaking as somebody who has done multiheaded touchscreen
>implementations for Sun workstaions, I would guess that it would be somewhat
>trivial, but would probably require XF86 mods...
>
>A neat thing to do might be to make it "look" like a serial mouse (ioctl or
>something?)....  that would allow it to be used with XF86 without any
>further modifications.  Cool way to do it, at least for certain
>applications.

We have someone working on implementing the XInput extension for XFree86.
That might be the best way to make X see it.

David



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