How-to use a USB joypad?

Thierry Thomas thierry at pompo.net
Thu Oct 2 15:39:09 PDT 2003


Le Ven 26 sep 03 à 22:19:45 +0200, Thierry Thomas <thierry at pompo.net>
 écrivait :
> On 26 sep 03 at 21:47:03 +0200, Nick Holley <nickpub at imap.cc>
>  wrote:
> > What program are you trying to use? I know there are some issues with
> > joysticks and gamepads on FreeBSD. For example, the joystick code was
> > removed from zsnes due to problems, but there are no problems with
> > snes9x. I don't know who exactly would have more information.
> 
> But I don't think that it depends on the program: no more results with
> the sample perl routine or tuxracer.

Nick Holley was right: I have upgraded libSDL to 1.2.6 (see
<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=57475>) and, with a minor
patch to the joystick code, I can use my USB joystick in SDL programs
(e.g. tuxracer).

Next step: put a similar code in the other toolkits (plib, etc.)...
-- 
Th. Thomas.
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