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Date:      Wed, 25 Jan 1995 04:04:37 -0600 (CST)
From:      Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
To:        kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de
Cc:        jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: Joystick driver available
Message-ID:  <9501251004.AA15631@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
In-Reply-To: <199501250905.KAA13741@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Jan 25, 95 10:05:23 am

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> Thinking of possible applications (other than games) of a joy stick:
> 
> Input device for X11.
> 
> Does anyone know how to make X see it?

It depends on how it is implemented (and how easily XF86 would be
adapted)...  speaking as somebody who has done multiheaded touchscreen
implementations for Sun workstaions, I would guess that it would be somewhat
trivial, but would probably require XF86 mods...

A neat thing to do might be to make it "look" like a serial mouse (ioctl or
something?)....  that would allow it to be used with XF86 without any
further modifications.  Cool way to do it, at least for certain
applications.

... Joe

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