Re: [hatari-devel] [Fwd: kontakts] joystick configuration

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On perjantai 18 toukokuu 2012, Teemu Hukkanen wrote:
> On Sun, 13 May 2012 09:39:17 +0200, Matthias Arndt <marndt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> > it seems I am not the only one stumbling into the problem of (USB)
> > joysticks that do not produce the right input for Hatari (without
> > proper device abstraction).
> > 
> > For the moment I can only tell him to download the latest Hatari source
> > and patch the joystick I/O himself.
> 
> A similar bug report was sent to the Debian bug tracking system last
> weekend, <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=672680>.
> 
> It seems that some joysticks require extra configuration in programs.

Bugs can get fixed only if they're somehow reproducible, but 
I don't think any of the Hatari developers has such a joystick.

I.e. somebody who has such a joystick would need to come up with
a patch as she/he is the only one who can test it properly.


	- Eero
 
> > From: sheevastar <sheevastar@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: marndt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: kontakts
> > Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 23:52:02 +0200
> > 
> > Dear Mathias,
> > 
> > I would like to ask you about joystick. Would it be possible to release
> > for debian stable squeeze a newer version of hatari with the
> > possibility to configure the joystick inputs.
> > 
> > I have troubles to run it, my fire works, but not my arrows
> > (up;down;left;right)
> > 
> > I used jscal on debain stable squeeze but thought still same resutsl
> > 
> > origianlly when I plug my gamepad (default calibratin from kernel ):
> >  jscal -p /dev/input/js0
> > 
> > jscal -s
> > 6,1,0,112,142,5534751,5534751,1,0,112,142,5534751,5534751,1,0,112,142,
> > 5534751,5534751,1,0,112,142,5534751,5534751,1,0,112,142,5534751,5534751
> > ,1,0,3,3,178956970,178956970 /dev/input/js0
> > 
> > jscal -u 6,0,1,2,3,4,40,10,288,289,290,291,292,293,294,295,296,297
> > /dev/input/js0
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > And my super modified.
> > 
> >   jscal -u 6,3,4,0,1,2,40,10,288,289,290,291,292,293,294,295,296,297
> >   /dev/input/js0 fire is here working
> > 
> > but still hatari arrows are not workking.
> > 
> > My icq : icq_uin 305686267
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > S.