From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Aug 13 20:27:00 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1D889B808E for ; Thu, 13 Aug 2015 20:27:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mdockery@hargray.com) Received: from smtp413.redcondor.net (smtp413.redcondor.net [208.80.204.13]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.redcondor.net", Issuer "Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C6387C5D for ; Thu, 13 Aug 2015 20:27:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mdockery@hargray.com) Received: from hargray.com ([64.203.254.40]) by smtp413.redcondor.net ({f682051a-8ae4-4456-9822-a84ca1296676}) via TCP (outbound) with ESMTP id 20150813202659162_0413 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 2015 20:26:59 +0000 X-RC-FROM: X-RC-RCPT: Received: from [64.253.11.218] (account mdockery@hargray.com HELO movies.localnet) by hargray.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.0.9) with ESMTPSA id 39833874 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2015 16:26:55 -0400 From: Mike Dockery To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Joystick configuration Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 16:26:54 -0400 Message-ID: <2099929.j7WTS8YIGh@movies> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.3 (FreeBSD/10.1-RELEASE; KDE/4.14.3; i386; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-MAG-OUTBOUND: hargray.redcondor.net@64.203.254.40/32 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 20:27:01 -0000 Greetings, I have five grandkids and gave them a computer two years ago that is powered by Netrunner. The oldest grand child is 11 and he is addicted to flightgear. The all like some of the other joystick controlled games. They all are home schooled and there are many great programs that can be of help to them. I am planning a second computer and wanted to use FreeBSD to widen their exposure to what is available. As a way to test this idea, I installed FreeBSD 10.1 on an extra hard drive and have been playing around with it for the past few days. Everything looks great on the KDE system... mythtv had to use my hdhomerun unit because the pcHDTV cards wouldn't load (easily anyway). Flightgear would not build but I was able to git the latest version and install it. The problem is the joystick. My question is: Why are joysticks so difficult or impossible to set up? If there is a way, why is the information hidden. Every search on this subject has lead to outdated or useless information. This is a major roadblock for my plans and I am sure this one area is sending many potential users back to linux. FreeBSD seems so solid and complete that I just can't imagine why this one area is so empty. Am I missing something? Thanks for letting me ask this question. Mike