Re: Joysticks/joypads/etc information needed for Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and later

2008-10-28 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi Matthew, Matthew Garrett [2008-10-21 16:33 +0100]: > Something like this: Thanks for the patch! I tested it with my Logitech Thrustmaster, and it works fine. I think we should continue this on [1] and [2]. Martin [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2008-October/012398.html [2] http

Re: Joysticks/joypads/etc information needed for Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and later

2008-10-21 Thread Loïc Martin
Timo Aaltonen wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Loïc Martin wrote: > >> Timo Aaltonen wrote: >>> On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Loïc Martin wrote: >>> Hi, Stating with Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and due to changes in Xorg, each model of joystick needs a special file to be recognised prop

Re: Joysticks/joypads/etc information needed for Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and later

2008-10-21 Thread Timo Aaltonen
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Loïc Martin wrote: > Timo Aaltonen wrote: >> On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Loïc Martin wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Stating with Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and due to changes in Xorg, each >>> model of joystick needs a special file to be recognised properly. For >>> the moment 8.10 doesn

Re: Joysticks/joypads/etc information needed for Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and later

2008-10-21 Thread Matthew Garrett
Something like this: diff --git a/hald/linux/device.c b/hald/linux/device.c index 11f79cd..eff4ee5 100644 --- a/hald/linux/device.c +++ b/hald/linux/device.c @@ -1060,16 +1060,27 @@ input_test_abs (HalDevice *d, const char *sysfs_path) hal_device_add_capability (d, "input.t

Re: Joysticks/joypads/etc information needed for Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and later

2008-10-21 Thread Matthew Garrett
Surely the correct solution is to fix hal so it flags these devices as input.joystick and not input.mouse? input_test_rel in hald/linux/device.c looks pretty dumb. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: Joysticks/joypads/etc information needed for Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and later

2008-10-21 Thread Martin Pitt
Loïc Martin [2008-10-21 13:17 +0200]: > However, at the moment the only way for an Intrepid user to get its > joystick recognised is to create an fdi file for his specific model of > joystick (I won't mention aditing xorg.conf since it's not really newbie > friendly) I might misunderstand the a

Re: Joysticks/joypads/etc information needed for Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and later

2008-10-21 Thread Loïc Martin
Timo Aaltonen wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Loïc Martin wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Stating with Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and due to changes in Xorg, each >> model of joystick needs a special file to be recognised properly. For >> the moment 8.10 doesn't ship with these files, and thus your joystick >>

Re: Joysticks/joypads/etc information needed for Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and later

2008-10-21 Thread Loïc Martin
Martin Pitt wrote: > Loïc Martin [2008-10-20 18:40 +0200]: > >> Stating with Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and due to changes in Xorg, each >> model of joystick needs a special file to be recognised properly. >> > > That's not actually true. The kernel already knows very well about > which de

Re: Joysticks/joypads/etc information needed for Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and later

2008-10-21 Thread Martin Pitt
Loïc Martin [2008-10-20 18:40 +0200]: > Stating with Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and due to changes in Xorg, each > model of joystick needs a special file to be recognised properly. That's not actually true. The kernel already knows very well about which device is a joystick, there is just a bug i

Re: Joysticks/joypads/etc information needed for Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and later

2008-10-21 Thread Timo Aaltonen
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Loïc Martin wrote: > Hi, > > Stating with Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and due to changes in Xorg, each > model of joystick needs a special file to be recognised properly. For > the moment 8.10 doesn't ship with these files, and thus your joystick > shouldn't be working anymore (

Re: Joysticks/joypads/etc information needed for Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and later

2008-10-20 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 08:36 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Mackenzie Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I can't run Intrepid on my laptop. Can my lshal output for my Guitar > > Hero controller still be useful if it's done on 8.04? > > how about booting a desktop live cd? I guess I could

Re: Joysticks/joypads/etc information needed for Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and later

2008-10-20 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Mackenzie Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can't run Intrepid on my laptop. Can my lshal output for my Guitar > Hero controller still be useful if it's done on 8.04? how about booting a desktop live cd? -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mai

Re: Joysticks/joypads/etc information needed for Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and later

2008-10-20 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 18:40 +0200, Loïc Martin wrote: > If you are the owner of a joystick (or any game input device, joypad, > dance mat, etc...), can borrow somebody's joystick for 5 minutes or can > go to a friend that has a joystick, you would be a great help if you > could check if your joy

Re: Joysticks/joypads/etc information needed for Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and later

2008-10-20 Thread Caroline Ford
If we really have broken everyone's joysticks it's bad that we've found out so late in the development cycle. I suspect we'll have some very unhappy gamers. Thanks very much for doing work on this. Caroline On 10/20/08, Loïc Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Stating with Ubuntu 8.10 In

Joysticks/joypads/etc information needed for Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and later

2008-10-20 Thread Loïc Martin
Hi, Stating with Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and due to changes in Xorg, each model of joystick needs a special file to be recognised properly. For the moment 8.10 doesn't ship with these files, and thus your joystick shouldn't be working anymore (instead, it should move the mouse cursor, someti