Hi Dave, On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 15:46, Dave Perry wrote: > Vikki, > I normally use a CH Product Flight Sim Yoke, but do have the Cyborg 3D > Gold USB. So I removed the yoke and plugged in the Saitek. I got > values from -0.8 to +0.2 or +0.3 on all four axies running js_demo > (usually in ../FlightGear/bin. Then I ran jscal /dev/js4 -c to do a > calibration (the Saitek was js4 in jsdemo run). After this, all axies > varied from -1 to +1 in js_demo. I am running a week old CVS tarball > with corresponding CVS tarball of Simgear. I did not update Plib 1.4.2, > so the file joysticks.xml configures my joysticks. I did not bother to > edit this file after running jscal, so I had the "twist" axis as rudder > and the "throttle" axis as "mixture", but other than that the plane flew > normally in Flight Gear with the Saitek. > > Do you know that js_demo and jscal are working? If so, you should be > very near to a working joystick. I would be glad to go ahead and set up > a file "joysticks.xml" for you. I used to use .fgfsrc, but found it a > lot easier to switch joysticks using joysticks.xml.
Sigh, I'd like to think this is going to work. Part of the problem is that I have so many learning curves going on right at the moment that I feel like I am drowning in them :-/. Interesting to note that you comments on the stick above seem very similar and I am starting to think the deciding factor is tracking down a version of jscal that will work with mandrake. As for jscal, I am unable to locate it for mandrake. The source I found (which seems to have been an early version ?!?!?!?!) wants to be compiled into the kernel and I find that just too odd. I've been reading massive amounts of documentation and at this point I have read so much lately that it all just blends together. At this point I am running (I think?) everything from cvs including plib so I am not sure about the joysticks.xml does, goes, etc. Sorry to sound like I am burned out here, but I am :-(. I'm overall very happy to be under linux almost exclusively, but the effort to get there (heh, I am still not there, just creeping up on it - something I have done lately has managed to screw up my ability to print, add that to the list of things to fix) has been staggering, if I had just wanted the canned apps, it would have been trivial :-). As much as it bothers me to do so, I need a break and am just going to give all this up for the weekend and fire up w98 and play with fs2k2, it bugs me to do it, but it is a needed break doing something that is FUN :-) :-/. I appreciate your offer of assistance, but I am just not sure about much of anything at the moment. Perhaps I'll feel better after a break. Thanks & take care, Vikki (who is aware she isn't making sense here :-). -- Victoria Welch, WV9K/7, SysAdmin, Embedded Systems Designer. "Walking on water and developing software to specification are easy as long as both are frozen" - Edward V. Berard. Do not unto others, that which you would not have others do unto you. "Micro$oft Windows. I'll bet you can't install it just once!" _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
