[ale] Hopefully dumb question about USB Joystick

[Holmquist, Thomas W.]

What does usbview say when you plug in the joystick?
 
(cool hint: MPlayer can be controled with a joystick)

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	From: ale-bounces at ale.org on behalf of tfreeman at intel.digichem.net 
	Sent: Wed 12/3/2003 10:56 PM 
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	Subject: [ale] Hopefully dumb question about USB Joystick
	
	


	I have a MS Sidewinder usb joystick lying around without a real use for
	it, so I decided to get it working with my RH9 system. I'm not a gamer or
	sim player, so the motivation is more pride of accomplishment than
	despearate need. Stupid thing doesn't work...
	
	When I plug the joystick in, it shows up on the USB subsystem (as seen
	with usbview), but the programs "js_demo", "fgjs", and "jscal" don't seem
	to find the appropriate device file. I've googled without apparent
	success, hit www.usb-linux.org, RedHat's help files, browsed around in the
	kernel source doc files without getting clued in to what is missing.
	
	Anybody on list have a clue they might share? Failing that, any ideas on
	trouble shooting this connection?
	
	Thanks in advance.
	
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