The Saitek X52 Flight Control System (joystick, throttle, etc.) is rather nice and widely used, except that it has been unusable with all kernels from 2.6.28-15 to the present.
This is strictly a kernel bug, not a hardware problem or a plib bug or a FGFS bug ... but it affects people in the FGFS community so I thought I would mention it here. If you didn't know where to look, it might take you a long time to find this bug ... but once found, it is easy to fix. The patch is here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=23054 with some discussion here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14049 This is an "out of the frying pan and into the fire" situation. In kernel 2.6.28.14 and before, Wacom tablets were incorrectly identified as being joysticks. The heuristic that "fixed" that problem broke the X52. Maybe eventually somebody will come up with a clean, non-heuristic bit of code that will reliably distinguish tablets from joysticks ... but in the meantime, if you have an X52 and don't have a tablet, you want to apply the patch mentioned above. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
