From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 12 15:34: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail12.svr.pol.co.uk (mail12.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEB4937B401 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 15:33:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from modem-1768.zebra.dialup.pol.co.uk ([81.76.150.232]) by mail12.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 17IGge-0004eI-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 23:33:56 +0100 Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 23:32:46 +0100 (BST) From: Mike Saunders X-X-Sender: To: Subject: USB joystick support Message-ID: X-Mailer: Pine 4.33 (RHL72-Zelenka-Ulv) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Just wondering if anyone had any info on USB joystick support under FreeBSD (current/stable). I've browsed the man pages and source, and done a lot of searching, but the results have been inconclusive: # The main FreeBSD USB development page at www.etla.net/~n_hibma/usb/ states that gamepad support is one of the "further away" tasks, so I assumed it wasn't present. # The source and man pages for USB devices on my 4.5-RELEASE installation don't appear to mention it either... # But! The BZFlag Port, for instance, has a few patches enabling USB joystick support for that particular game, and Google has brought up some posts on mailing lists suggesting that they work. I might be missing something here, but if anyone can give any pointers or share their experiences with USB joysticks under FreeBSD, I'd be most grateful. I tend to run a lot of console emulators, so gamepad support is pretty important (and there's no old-style port on the sound card here). I'm planning to switch to FreeBSD on my main desktop box full-time, so any help here would be great. Thanks in advance. -- Mike Saunders -- mike@aster.fsnet.co.uk Site: http://www.aster.fsnet.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message