Joystick support for Linux

Hi, thanks !
I will merge your patch to the trunk when I find some time,
nice work !

Ubuntu linux 12.10
current svn compiles without errors
can't get joystick input

Hi Sponk
this is the code I used for testing

function onSceneUpdate()
    print(getAxis("JOY1_Y"))
    print(isKeyPressed("JOY1_BUTTON1"))
end

just tried on different machine (same OS) with different joypad and I got same result:

0
false

Lamberto

lsusb returns

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 056a:0010 Wacom Co., Ltd Graphire
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 12bd:d012  
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 058f:6364 Alcor Micro Corp. AU6477 Card Reader Controller
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0409:005a NEC Corp. HighSpeed Hub
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 046d:09a5 Logitech, Inc. Quickcam 3000 For Business
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 1a1d:8301 Veho 
Bus 002 Device 008: ID 0cf3:3005 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR3011 Bluetooth
Bus 002 Device 007: ID 0409:02b9 NEC Corp. 

joypad is Bus 001 Device 006: ID 12bd:d012

I tried "cat /dev/input/js0" that returns weird characters while pressing joypad buttons (meaning it works)

as final test used jstest-gtk and output is fine

any guess?
Lamberto

Hi,

I've tested cheap ACME gamepad on Ubuntu 12.04 (Maratis r200), but it doesn't work me either. Gamepad is functioning fine. Can I give you any more info to make it easier to debug?

Lamberto: So it now works as expected? Could you please describe exactly your steps to make it work?

I still don't know what exactly caused the failure. Maybe I will find it later

TaeZ: You could possibly fix it the same way as Lamberto

Nice to hear that it is not solely my fault

Sponk

usmangani289: Thanks for your feedback!

About the reconnect: It does not work because the joystick gets initialized once the game starts. Reconnecting could lead to undefined behaviour. I will see whether I can make some PnP detection to detect reconnected and newly connected devices.

About the 'precision mode': I don't think I could do something about it. I get data from the driver as it comes. I don't change anything about the values. If the button was common for all joysticks I could try to emulate the wanted behaviour but I think it's not that common for a joystick to even have this button.

I read about the vibration feature but I don't know how to expose it to the Maratis SDK since there is no engine support for that yet (As far as I know).

Thanks for you feedback
I will see what I can do about your 'problems'

Sponk