[Sussex] game pad resource

Gareth Ablett garethablett at phpw.fsnet.co.uk
Mon Jul 28 20:58:01 UTC 2003


To, Steve, 

Ok i'll bring the pad along on thursday see if it works.
should be fun, 

oh and btw it might be an idea for you to have game ready to test it :)

thanks


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Dobson" <SDobson at manh.com>
To: <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 4:53 PM
Subject: RE: [Sussex] game pad resource


> Gareth
> 
> On 28 July 2003 at 16:42 Gareth Ablett wrote:
> > I just got myself an Xbox pad as they are USB compactable, 
> > just need to chop the cable up.  Anyway I already have a driver
> > for playing games under windows but have a feeling I will need
> > to play with it to get working under Linux. 
> > 
> > Any one got any good links or stuff I can start at, any thing 
> > from game pad drivers to general USB peripheral drivers and setup?
> 
> The new Linux kernel[1] has support for the XBox game pad in the USB
> drivers section.  I'd look there first.  I have the USB stuff running
> on my laptop (not the XBox game pad).  If you want bring the pad along
> Thursday and we can plug it in and see if it works.  Don't know what
> else I have to do to get it to work, but we can always "od -x" the
> device (see Geoff I do use "od" a lot!!!)  Let me know by Wednesday
> so I know to pack my laptop for the moot.
> 
> Steve
> 
> [1]
> By latest kernel I mean the development branch.  2.5 development is now
> frozen and as of ~19:00 yesterday 2.6.0-test2 hit the streets.  Haven't
> pull it yet but I do have 2.6.0-test1 up and running.  The patch to 
> test2 will be pulled to night and installed.
> 
> If anyone want to see who to patch a kernel and rebuild it (>2.5 as there
> are some difference to the make procedure for 2.6) then shout. I'll make
> a copy of my test1 tree before installing the patch so I can demo the 
> steps on Thursday.
> 
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