out of curiosity, have you tried any other application that uses the joystick, i.e. ZSNES, Gens, etc? that'd be the first thing I'd try. failing that, does cat /dev/input/js0 do anything when you press buttons, move joystick?
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 00:40, Mark Wells wrote: > I am having great difficulty getting Xmame to recognize my Thrustmaster > joystick under Slackware 9.0. > > I start Xmame with xmame -jt 4 <romname> and get the following outpur: > [snip] > > Using a Visual with a depth of 24bpp. > MIT-SHM Extension Available. trying to use... Success. > Using Shared Memory Features to speed up > Actual bits per pixel = 32... Ok > I386 joystick interface initialization... > Joystick: /dev/js0 is THRUSTMASTER Top Gun Afterburner > Joystick: Built in driver version: 2.1.0 > Joystick: Kernel driver version : 2.1.0 > OSD: Info: Joystick 0, 7 axis, 8 buttons > Using 16bpp video mode > > I think that Xmame sees the joystick to some degree, but the only thing > that actually works in any of the games is button 0, which in Ms Pacman > gives an instand speed burst. > > I've tried the other i386 driver as well and it gets about the same > results. > > > > I hope this isn't an RTFM - my apologies if it is, and any help would > be appreciated regardless. > > Thank you, > > Markus > > _______________________________________________ > Xmame mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://toybox.twisted.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/xmame > > _______________________________________________ Xmame mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://toybox.twisted.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/xmame
