From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 9 18:27:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blues.jpj.net (blues.jpj.net [204.97.17.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B787F37B405; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 18:27:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (trevor@localhost) by blues.jpj.net (8.11.6/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g0A2RKR29965; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 21:27:20 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 21:27:20 -0500 (EST) From: Trevor Johnson To: Jud Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, Subject: Re: Celestia Port and USB Joystick In-Reply-To: <3C3BBF29@operamail.com> Message-ID: <20020109210652.K23017-100000@blues.jpj.net> 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 Jud wrote: > Two somewhat connected questions: > > 1. The web site for the Astro port Open Universe says it's no longer being > developed, and suggests installing a program called Celestia. I'm interested > to know whether a Celestia port is being contemplated at all, and if not, > advice on installing Celestia on Linux-enabled FreeBSD 4.5-prerelease. (It > would be a great favor if any such advice were in newbie form, please.) According to http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/celestia/ Celestia is only for Windows. I don't know anything about programming on Windows, so it's unlikely that I'd know how to port Celestia to FreeBSD. > 2. Celestia mentions joystick support. The thought of cruising through the > Universe, steering with my Logitech Wingman Force 3D USB joystick, does > appeal. What I've read re support for USB joysticks essentially says "not > right now - sometime in the future." Is there any slightly more specific > information, or is "sometime in the future" pretty much where things remain? I know next to nothing about joysticks or USB, but a look at PR 27370 (http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=27370) suggests to me that if FreeBSD crashes with your joystick, Nick Hibma might be interested in hearing about it. -- Trevor Johnson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message