Thanks Tom for your answer, but im using the gamecon driver for parallel
port console joysticks and is working but the prosessor goes to 100%
everytime i use the joystick and the emus goes slow as hell.
Tom H. Warkentin writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Does anybody tryed the psx joystick under linux, because i tryed and works
> > but when i try to play any emulator the emu goes slow as hell.
> > Does anybody knows if this is normal or how do i solve this problem??, and
> > xmame doesnt detect it even when i sent the /dev/js1 or /dev/input/js1 in
> > command line
> > TIA.
>
> I have a DualShock 2 controller working well in Linux. I am using the xmame
> i386 joystick driver for Linux. I have a USB adapter that supports both the
> PSX controller and the N64 controller. Both worked great pretty much out of
> the box with kernel 2.4.6. If the controller wasn't plugged in when you
> rebooted, just pull out the USB connection and plug it back in (assuming you
> are using a USB adapter). This should reload the appropriate drivers. Also,
> I have to set the PSX controller to analog mode before it works (the analog
> mode gets turned off when rebooting). I use the following little perl script
> to see if the joystick is working:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env perl
>
> use FileHandle;
>
> $| = 1;
>
> my $fh = new FileHandle;
>
> print "Trying /dev/js0... ";
> $fh->open( "/dev/js0" ) || die "error: $!\n";
> $fh->close;
> print "done\n";
>
> If you see "Trying /dev/js0... done", then it usually means that everything
> is working great (Note: my /dev/js0 is a symlink to /dev/input/js0). Then
> all you have to do is configure the joystick in xmame but hitting the <TAB>
> key while the emulator is running and mapping the buttons appropriately in
> the controller setup menu.
>
> BTW, I think someone here mentioned that when you use the -jdev command line
> arg with xmame, don't specify the numbers of the joystick device. In other
> words if you want to use /dev/input/js1, use "-jdef /dev/input/js" to tell
> xmame to try all the /dev/input/jsN devices to find joysticks. Maybe you did
> this already but if you didn't, then that is probably why it didn't work.
>
> - Tom
>
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