[Sussex] game pad resource

[Gareth Ablett]

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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