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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