From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian McMenamin Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:11:58 +0000 Subject: Re: How can I test a joystick type device? Message-Id: <1202688718.6237.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: References: <1202514806.6237.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1202514806.6237.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 19:43 +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote: > On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 19:18 -0600, Harley Laue wrote: > > On Friday 08 February 2008 05:53:26 pm you wrote: > > > As below shows I think I have successfully ported the 2.4 Dreamcast > > > controller driver to 2.6 - but how can I test it? Is there a device I > > > should be looking for in /dev that I could just cat? > > Cool. > > if a /dev/input/js? or /dev/js? does not show up you can try: > > mknod js0 c 13 0 > > then you can cat js0 and move the joystick to see if it's working > > > Clearly the porting isn't as simple as I'd hoped: I cannot seem to get a > udev rule to recognise the thing and if I create the node manually there > is strangeness and an unwillingness to work! > worked out what I was doing wrong...not compiling in the userland support. Once that was done everything Just Worked ...afaics any way