Re: [Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-16 Thread Jim Wilson
"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Once the kernel boots you might be able to grab something out of > /proc/pci (or other /proc entries.) There are probably hardware > detection software out there too. I think RedHat does a lot of that > (and I think Debian does hardware detection on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-16 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Martin Spott writes: > [... Curt wrote ...] > > Something I've always thought would be cool to mess around with (but > > never even have come close to having the time) would be to put > > together a custom linux distribution on a bootable cd that > > detected/supported a couple of the major 3d gra

Re: [Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-15 Thread Martin Spott
[... Curt wrote ...] > Something I've always thought would be cool to mess around with (but > never even have come close to having the time) would be to put > together a custom linux distribution on a bootable cd that > detected/supported a couple of the major 3d graphics cards. Some time ago I d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-15 Thread Curtis L. Olson
John Check writes: > On Sunday 14 July 2002 7:33 am, David Megginson wrote: > > Victoria Welch writes: > > > 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

Re: [Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-15 Thread Martin Spott
[...] > In the long run, Debian is a better choice, but SuSE would make it easier > to concentrate on FGFS in the near term. I know very well that the stuff on configuring a joystick belongs into the manual. Because I don't have a joystick myself - they'll kill me if I connect a joystick to my co

Re: [Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 08:11:53 +1000, Bernie Bright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 14 Jul 2002 09:02:50 -0700 > Victoria Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Tony, > > > > Thanks for the response! > > > > On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 08:39, Tony Peden wrote: > > >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-14 Thread John Check
On Sunday 14 July 2002 7:33 am, David Megginson wrote: > Victoria Welch writes: > > 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'm ve

Re: [Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-14 Thread Bernie Bright
On 14 Jul 2002 09:02:50 -0700 Victoria Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Tony, > > Thanks for the response! > > On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 08:39, Tony Peden wrote: > > rpmfind lists this: > > >http://www.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/cooker/contrib/RPMS/joystick-1.2.15-1mdk.i586.html > > Unfortunatel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-14 Thread Victoria Welch
Hi Tony, Thanks for the response! On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 08:39, Tony Peden wrote: > rpmfind lists this: > http://www.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/cooker/contrib/RPMS/joystick-1.2.15-1mdk.i586.html Unfortunately Mandrake 8.2 comes with the 2.1.0 driver (where that exists, I have not a clue) and the 1.2

Re: [Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-14 Thread Tony Peden
rpmfind lists this: http://www.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/cooker/contrib/RPMS/joystick-1.2.15-1mdk.i586.html On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 07:59, Victoria Welch wrote: > Hi Bernie, > > Thanks for the response. > > > [ ... ] > > For whatever reason Mandrake doesn't include jscal or jstest. However these ar

Re: [Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-14 Thread Victoria Welch
Hi David, > > 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'm very surprised that this is not a standard part of Mandrake, > because

Re: [Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-14 Thread Victoria Welch
Hi Bernie, Thanks for the response. > [ ... ] > For whatever reason Mandrake doesn't include jscal or jstest. However these are >part of the joystick package which can be downloaded from your local cooker mirror. >Alternatively you can download the linuxconsole package from sourceforge. jsc

Re: [Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-14 Thread Bernie Bright
On Sun, 14 Jul 2002 07:33:46 -0400 David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Victoria Welch writes: > > > 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 th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-14 Thread David Megginson
Victoria Welch writes: > 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'm very surprised that this is not a standard part of Mandrake, becaus

Re: [Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-13 Thread Victoria Welch
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 ../F

[Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-13 Thread Dave Perry
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 (