Alexander Kappes writes: > this is strange. I have my CH pro pedals working without any problems > under SuSE 7.2. Has something got broken from kernel 2.4.0 to 2.4.18 wrt. > joystick support?
CH has changed the electronics over time. I have been able to identify three different incarnations from people's comments: 1. A very old one, which reports a dummy fourth axis and a dummy button -- I think Alex Perry has this one. It should work out of the box. 2. A less old one, which doesn't report a dummy button or axis, and thus requires the joydev.c patch (the current Linux joydev.c refuses to recognize any joystick without buttons). I think Tony Peden has this one. 3. The newest one, which doesn't report a dummy button or axis and also uses new electronics. This one requires both the joydev.c patch and the hid-core.c patch; note that the hid-core.c patch is also required for the newest USB CH Pro Yoke (that's why Alex Perry wrote it -- he has the newer electronics in his yoke). Linux's joystick stuff is not very well maintained -- the guy at SUSE who manages it tends to ignore patch submissions, and the Linux code base changes only rarely. Oh well. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users
