Guest edfinegan Posted February 11, 2003 Report Share Posted February 11, 2003 I have a HammerHead FX game controller an was wondering if anyone knew if thier was any support for it in linux. I looked on google but could not find much Thanks Ed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JaseP Posted February 11, 2003 Report Share Posted February 11, 2003 Hmmm, USB or Gamport??? Setting up gameport support is a pain. USB joysticks/gamepads are easier. That said I have a gameport edition of the Gravis Xterminator and just got it working with jscalibrator. Now if I can only get it working in an actual game... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest edfinegan Posted February 11, 2003 Report Share Posted February 11, 2003 That is via the gameport. If usb is simple i may just go get a cheap usb controller. I all want to do is paly SNES games and have the controller emulate keyboard buttons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JaseP Posted February 11, 2003 Report Share Posted February 11, 2003 You have to check the SNES sotware's FAQs and find out if it supports re-mapping the controller to the keyboard, or whether it supports standard cotrollers... I don't think there is as much option to re-map buttons to keystrokes in Linux. At least I've never seen anything on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest edfinegan Posted February 11, 2003 Report Share Posted February 11, 2003 What is involved in making a usb controller work. Do you know of any sites that take you through the steps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 12, 2003 Report Share Posted February 12, 2003 Look in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/usb/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hjlane3 Posted February 12, 2003 Report Share Posted February 12, 2003 http://icculus.org/~dolson/mdkxp/?c=ttrls/gamepad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glitz Posted February 12, 2003 Report Share Posted February 12, 2003 For an analog joystick su to root and then do: insmod gameport insmod ns558 insmod input insmod joydev insmod analog Then start rocks and diamonds, select the joystick and try to calibrate it. If you can calibrate it then your joystick is all set up. Glitz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JaseP Posted February 12, 2003 Report Share Posted February 12, 2003 Glitz, Gameport doesn't always do it. For example, the SoundBlaster Live requires you to insmod emuk1-gp or something like that... I still have problems getting it set up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest itti Posted February 12, 2003 Report Share Posted February 12, 2003 if you have an unsoppurted soundcard (like mine) you wont get your gamepad working, usb is probably better :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOlson Posted February 13, 2003 Report Share Posted February 13, 2003 HJLane posted a link to my Hammerhead FX game pad tutorial... I see no reason why it wouldn't work, as it works for me and many others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest itti Posted February 17, 2003 Report Share Posted February 17, 2003 if your soundcards gameport isn't supported you WONT be able to use any gamepad oder joystick pluged into it. thats the problem i have here (and why i ordered an old sb live on ebay last week) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SDMF Posted February 28, 2003 Report Share Posted February 28, 2003 For an analog joystick su to root and then do: insmod gameport insmod ns558 insmod input insmod joydev insmod analog Then start rocks and diamonds, select the joystick and try to calibrate it. If you can calibrate it then your joystick is all set up. Glitz. Will that add those modules so that they also are loaded on startup, or would you need to add those to modules.conf to get it to be enabled automatically at startup? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glitz Posted March 1, 2003 Report Share Posted March 1, 2003 No, you will have to add that to modules.conf. Glitz. PS. I haven't actually tried to get it to load at bootup but that would be my guess on how to do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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