From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 25 11:35:04 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id LAA00173 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 11:35:04 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA00162 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 11:34:38 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA04342; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 20:33:09 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id UAA29735 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 20:33:09 +0100 Received: by bonnie.tcd-dresden.de (8.6.8/8.6.6) id SAA21352; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 18:45:20 +0100 From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch) Message-Id: <199501251745.SAA21352@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> Subject: Re: Joystick driver available To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 18:45:20 +0100 (MET) 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-Phone: +49-351-8141 137 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1022 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Joe Greco wrote: | | > 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... The better way is to let XFree86 where it is (if you don't really have any mouse declare /dev/null being your ``mouse''), and use the XInputExtension for this type of device. This would allow for a concurrent work of the mouse and secondary input devices (joystick, digiboard). There's been a rumour on the XFree86 beta list that someone is actually implementing the XInputExtension these days... (he needs it for a digitizer). -- cheers, J"org work: --- no longer --- private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)