Gamepad support, recognition and use as alternative to keyboard

Gamepad support, recognition and use as alternative to keyboard

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
Gamepad support for systems with neither mouse nor keyboard.

Should this be posted as a "feature request" / "wish-list" item using
the bug-report system?  Should we just put a tag in square brackets in
the subject-line, such as [feature-request]?

The users-support mailing list recently received a post from someone
asking how to set-up grub to work on a system that doesn't have a
keyboard and mouse.  It's a gaming machine that might even find it
difficult or impossible to add a mouse or keyboard.  Also with the
rise of Steam OS it might be that more people start needing Grub on
gaming devices.  Is there already an alternative multi-boot
boot-loader for them?  Is it likely to be difficult to get Grub2 to
detect such an unusual device?  Each game-pad seems very different to
me so i wondered if that might be a factor?


My response was to just tell the original poster to post a bug-report
about it and look for another way of doing this in the shorter-term
but a couple of us are interested in knowing if that was good advice.
Regards from
Tom :)

RE: Gamepad support, recognition and use as alternative to keyboard

[McCrory, Robert]

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Thanks Tom,

I will look into posting a bug report/feature request for this tomorrow (busy day at work), particularly if it comes back that this is the preferred method to request (I seem to be only getting your emails, not sure still if I'm properly subscribed to the list or if no one else has responded).  I am up for testing too if the devs are interested in adding this.

Robert
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From: Tom Davies<mailto:tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>
Sent: ‎3/‎31/‎2014 6:00 PM
To: grub-devel@gnu.org<mailto:grub-devel@gnu.org>; McCrory, Robert<mailto:robert.mccrory@okstate.edu>
Subject: Gamepad support, recognition and use as alternative to keyboard

Hi :)
Gamepad support for systems with neither mouse nor keyboard.

Should this be posted as a "feature request" / "wish-list" item using
the bug-report system?  Should we just put a tag in square brackets in
the subject-line, such as [feature-request]?

The users-support mailing list recently received a post from someone
asking how to set-up grub to work on a system that doesn't have a
keyboard and mouse.  It's a gaming machine that might even find it
difficult or impossible to add a mouse or keyboard.  Also with the
rise of Steam OS it might be that more people start needing Grub on
gaming devices.  Is there already an alternative multi-boot
boot-loader for them?  Is it likely to be difficult to get Grub2 to
detect such an unusual device?  Each game-pad seems very different to
me so i wondered if that might be a factor?


My response was to just tell the original poster to post a bug-report
about it and look for another way of doing this in the shorter-term
but a couple of us are interested in knowing if that was good advice.
Regards from
Tom :)

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Re: Gamepad support, recognition and use as alternative to keyboard

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

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On 01.04.2014 01:00, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Gamepad support for systems with neither mouse nor keyboard.
> 
> Should this be posted as a "feature request" / "wish-list" item using
> the bug-report system?  Should we just put a tag in square brackets in
> the subject-line, such as [feature-request]?
> 
Doesn't really matter. Unless you provide a patch or someone else picks
up the item, I don't think this is going to happen. I, and supposedly
most other devs, don't even have the gamepad.
> The users-support mailing list recently received a post from someone
> asking how to set-up grub to work on a system that doesn't have a
> keyboard and mouse.  It's a gaming machine that might even find it
> difficult or impossible to add a mouse or keyboard.  Also with the
> rise of Steam OS it might be that more people start needing Grub on
> gaming devices.  Is there already an alternative multi-boot
> boot-loader for them?  Is it likely to be difficult to get Grub2 to
> detect such an unusual device?  Each game-pad seems very different to
> me so i wondered if that might be a factor?
> 
> 
> My response was to just tell the original poster to post a bug-report
> about it and look for another way of doing this in the shorter-term
> but a couple of us are interested in knowing if that was good advice.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
> 
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> Grub-devel@gnu.org
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