Re: Ligitech joystick

From: John Bailo (jabailo_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 02/16/04


Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 21:21:50 GMT

petefa wrote:

> Travis 'Bailo' Bickel wrote:
>
>> petefa wrote:
>>
>>> John Bailo wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>petefa wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>John Bailo wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>petefa wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I have a Logitech freedom 2.4 wireless joystick, I didn't see a
>>>>>>>listing under suse. I tried the Logitech gamepad usb and it works
>>>>>>>great. :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I am trying to install a logitech gamepad usb -- but I have no idea
>>>>>>how to
>>>>>>test it in Suse. Can you suggest how?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Two cows in a field, one turns to the other and says, "mooooooo!"
>>>>>>>The other cow says,"damm, I was going to say that!"
>>>>>>
>>>>>start yast select hardware and test it there.
>>>>
>>>>Ok, I'm looking there. It doesn't configure under joystick ( that seems
>>>>to be for game devices connected to a sound card ).
>>>>
>>>>It does show up under Hardware, USB devices, but I don't see a test
>>>>there.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I am running Suse V9 and in yast/hardware/joystick there are all sorts
>>> of joysticks and game pads. I don't know about earlier suse versions.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Running Suse 9.0 professional.
> well under /start/system/yast2/hardware/joystick there is a Logitech
> wingman gamepad usb

When I run that application, an alert shows up:

No joystick port to configure was found.
The configured cards do not support the joystick.
Sound card configuration? Yes/No.

So it's assuming that all joysticks are on a sound card.

My logitech dual action is a USB device.

-- 
Kent Crazy B.V.


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