Ok, silly idea, but it might just work. You could try to install the drivers in
a wineprefix and reroute the traffic to the usb device on the linux side so
that the stream of data gets logged somewhere?
Regards,
Alessandro
> From: zakal...@mac.com
> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 22:44:51 +0000
> To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] FSWeekend 2012...
>
>
> On 6 Nov 2012, at 21:16, Durk Talsma wrote:
> >
> > Yes, I also talked to Martin Crompton. James told me later on that you had
> > been in touch with him. My action was rather spontaneous, so I asked him
> > whether we could try to support Saitek products, without me knowing that
> > you were also working on it. I hope we can join forces. I got their
> > radiostack to try, and this looks like it's going to be a little more
> > involved, since it may need its own USB driver. I'll try to send Martin
> > just a quick note later tonight.
>
> I had a quick look, and it's going to be tricky to support the part without
> some docs, since on Windows everything happens through a custom driver. On
> the other hand, if they support X-plane (they don't mention if they do) they
> will need something else - their current driver is really an MSFS plug-in I
> think.
>
> >
> > This is always a tricky one. At FSWeekend I found our visitor's reception
> > of the project really quite different, ranging from "Increadibly cool that
> > you do all of this by yourself" to "Give me one good reason why I should
> > change from FSX". The former is always a nice way of starting a
> > conversation (and usually runs into a situation where our visitors hang
> > around our booth for an hour or so), while the latter feels oftentimes like
> > a waste of effort. This is probably also because the people asking the
> > latter type of question don't strike me as the persons who really have a
> > fine-tuned for the subtleties of aviation that makes FlightGear such a cool
> > program. So, the bottom-line is that I would also be very interested in a
> > short concise list of features that we do better than FSX.
>
> Amongst the many small tweaks I want for next year, is some nicely printed
> materials (in Dutch! and English) with some FAQs:
>
> is this MSFS? No, it's flightgear, it runs on Linux and Mac too..
>
> How much does it cost? Nothing, you can download it from ....
>
> Are you using a Matrox TripleHead2Go? No, we support multiple views,
> video-cards and cameras....
>
> Can I use aircraft or scenery from MSFS? No, but you can maybe convert
> them....
>
> Can it talk to my joystick / some other thing? ....
>
> You get the idea :)
>
> Regards,
> James
>
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