On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 21:50 -0400, Jim Haynie wrote: > I just received my new Thrustmaster TopGun Afterburner II. I installed > the joystick on the windows PC and it recognized it. The calibration and > controls seem great. I change my joysticks.xml file to point to the > top_gun_afterburner.xml file. I startup flightgear and I hear "bang" I > change my view and the aircraft is buried into the ground. I check under > help and the controls looks great for the joystick. So I start it in the > air at 10,000 feet and I can't pull up the nose of the craft. Straight > down it goes. > > I looked at fgjs, but it doesn't produce anything other than a header for > Microsoft PC-Joystick driver. The FGJS utility also gives a failed to > open file /Flightgear/input/joysticks/template.xml > > I am kind of new at this and wondering what could wrong. I am sure I > missed something. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Jim >
Hi Jim, I'm not an expert on the flightgear input subsystem, but I'll ask a few questions to get the discussion going... You're using a Microsoft Windows PC running? XP? Vista? 2000? or a linux machine? Debian? Ubuntu? Fedora? Mac? You're running flightgear 0.9.10? 1.0.0? CVS-OSG? There is a utility that should be included with flightgear called js_demo. Run it from a command prompt and see what it says. It looks something like this: $ js_demo Joystick test program. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Joystick 0: "Ciponic Technology Mad Catz Panther DX " Joystick 1 not detected Joystick 2 not detected Joystick 3 not detected Joystick 4 not detected Joystick 5 not detected Joystick 6 not detected Joystick 7 not detected +--------------------JS.0----------------------+ | Btns Ax:0 Ax:1 Ax:2 Ax:3 Ax:4 Ax:5 | +----------------------------------------------+ | 0000 -0.0 +0.0 +0.0 +1.0 +0.0 +0.0 . . | The Ax: numbers should change as you move the Joy stick axises around, and should vary from +1.0 to -1.0 Also of interest is the exact ID string reported by js_demo, i.e. Joystick 0: "Ciponic Technology Mad Catz Panther DX " That is what flightgear uses to choose a joystick driver. V/r Ron ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
