From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 25 09:35:02 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id JAA02624 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 09:35:02 -0800 Received: from physics.su.OZ.AU (root@physics.su.OZ.AU [129.78.129.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA02613 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 09:35:00 -0800 Received: by physics.su.OZ.AU id AA19077 (5.67b/IDA-1.4.4 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com); Wed, 25 Jan 1995 23:10:48 +1100 From: David Dawes Message-Id: <199501251210.AA19077@physics.su.OZ.AU> Subject: Re: Joystick driver available To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 23:10:47 +1100 (EST) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <9501251004.AA15631@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Jan 25, 95 04:04:37 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 773 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. We have someone working on implementing the XInput extension for XFree86. That might be the best way to make X see it. David