Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 12:07:05 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com (user alias) Subject: Re: Joystick driver available Message-ID: <199501251107.MAA13952@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <9501251004.AA15631@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Jan 25, 95 04:04:37 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 How would the Xaccel server (Xinside, Inc.) cope with that? (Jeremy?) > 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 > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de FreeBSD blues 2.1.0-Development FreeBSD 2.1.0-Development #1: Wed Jan 18 10:42:31 1995 kuku@blues:/usr/src/sys/compile/BLUES i386
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