28 Jul
2005
28 Jul
'05
7:40 a.m.
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 12:40:36AM +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote:
Hi!
Today I went downtown to the big store, to buy a few things I need for
other purposes. They sell computer related stuff as well, and I picked
up a gamepad which had an analogue mini joystick buildin. I've always
thoght that gamepads are glorified arrow keys, but that mini analogue
joystick left me wondering ...
Anybody here have had any luck using something like that under Linux?
For the price of only slightly more than a scrollwheel mouse I think
it's a bargain. Could find good use for balancing out parameters in a 2d
space. It has quite a few buttons also that could be useful for
selecting modes.
Frank B. (I think it was him anyway) uses a playstation controller via a
USB adaptor, I've tried it as well, and its a pretty good controler, very
ergonomic, though not much precision.
USB joypad devices are pretty well supported, they tend to be HID devices.
- Steve