Fun? WoW!

[joshua at navyjosh.us]

Oh that is great i am happy it all worked at for you =)

Josh

Quoting JJ Neff <jjneff at yahoo.com>:

> After doing a fresh install of 9.1 I thought I'd give my joystick a whirl. 
> I
> hate not having joysticks in Linux for using PS or Arcade emu programs (all
> legal of course!)
> 
> Well after many hours I finally realized that the joystick I thought I was
> gettign to work (Old Sidewinder 3d on SB Live gameport) was not the joystick
> producing output the Playstsion controller in the USB HID was!  I never
> expected that to work!  Well that prompted me to keep trying and I finally
> got
> the Modules installed in the correct order and got the sidewinder with all 4
> axis and all 8 button recognized and of course what would have to come next
> FLIGHTGEAR.  Man what a great game (is it a gmae?) with a real joystick!  I
> now
> must get a USB rudder.  I was able to map jeys to both joysticks for some
> really kewl combos.  Still hate having the mixture mapped to the POV hat
> since
> I keep shutting off my engines if I take my thumb off the hat :-)
> 
> Well I flew a circuit and landed (not very well) but I was able to use my
> horizon to check my attitude and keep my speed and power in check.  Man
> flying
> for real is NOTHING like a video game, lots of SMALL SMALL corrections.  
> 
> Man I really need a rudder :-)
> OK  Now that I have the modules I need how do I get them in automatically is
> it
> as simple as adding the modules name to modules.conf?  or do I have to add
> some
> precursor like "add gameport" I found a website for SB Live under Linux that
> talks about all the features and how to use them (if they work).
> 
> The joystick package is a great help as well and the js_demo and jstest and
> js_calc tools are very helpful in figuring out how the OS sees the action of
> the joystick...also in FG use the fgjs tool to automatically create a FG
> command to joystick map...
> 
> goodluck.
> 
> Oh by the way all my joysticks or input devices will be USB from now on! :-)
> 
> JJN
> 
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