From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 25 02:08:42 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id CAA07444 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 02:08:42 -0800 Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.20.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id CAA07437 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 02:08:36 -0800 Received: by brasil.moneng.mei.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA15631; Wed, 25 Jan 95 04:04:38 CST From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <9501251004.AA15631@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: Joystick driver available To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 04:04:37 -0600 (CST) Cc: jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199501250905.KAA13741@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Jan 25, 95 10:05:23 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4beta PL9] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 881 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - The Data Capture Fellow (and UNIX/Network Hacker) 414/362-3617 Marquette Electronics, Inc. - Milwaukee, WI jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com