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Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 10:54:23 -0600
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Subject: Re: uhid devices
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On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 15:50:05 -0600
Vulpes Velox <kitbsdlist2@HotPOP.com> wrote:

> What would be the simplest way to get input from a uhid device and
> then feed it to X as keyboard input, mainly aimed at X?
> 
> I am currently trying to find a nice starting place to looking at
> how to go about from a usb joypad and mapping it as keyboard in put.

Well getting it working went far smoother than expected... did not
require any wrapper code or any thing...

Just stuck it in the X config as a keyboard and it worked perfectly.
The only thing to do now is look into remapping they keys on it.