[geeks] USB Human Interface Device

[Caleb Shay]

I don't know what the state of force-feedback is under linux, it's never
interested me.  However, I do know that HID Joysticks I just plug them
in and they work.  Assuming you are using a 2.4 kernel and devfs it will
just show up under /dev/input/js0.  Use your API of choice.  The SDL
joystick/input stuff is very easy, and is what I use, but if you want to
do straight reading from the device, feel free :)

caleb at Chinstrap caleb $ dmesg | grep Joy
input1: USB HID v1.10 Joystick [Logitech WingMan Action Pad] on usb1:4.0

Caleb Shay

On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 10:54, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 10:36:08AM -0400, Caleb Shay wrote:
> > I've got a couple of USB HID joysticks that work fine under Linux (just
> > include Input support, USB support, Input device support, and HID
> > support in your kernel).  I don't know about the force feedback, I don't
> > have any of those.
>
> Well programming it under windows apparently requires DirectX8.  Period.
>
> And there is no way to install an SDK that is a 175meg download when my
> storage space consists of 100 megs (a zip disk) + 20 megs (network XP
> account).
>
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