X.Org Joystick Driver Support Has Been Improving

[phoronix]

Phoronix: X.Org Joystick Driver Support Has Been Improving

This morning there was a talk at XDC2012 about the not often spoken of xf86-input-joystick driver for providing enhanced joystick device support on X.Org...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE4OTE

[jose1711]

latex beamer - how lovely!

[uid313]

Does it support force feedback?

Also, if I have a joystick, how do I make it work?
Let's say its a Bluetooth or Wi-Fi joystick.
Does it use a general driver or protocol, or does it need a custom driver or daemon or server?

[Vanir]

Does it support force feedback?

Also, if I have a joystick, how do I make it work?
Let's say its a Bluetooth or Wi-Fi joystick.
Does it use a general driver or protocol, or does it need a custom driver or daemon or server?

It does.

I have written a program to enumerate amd configure usb joysticks on Linux. It does not not support force feedback - sorry.
Basically it uses the js device files to interface with the usb joysticks.
It also employs Qt and a bit of C++11, oh and threading.

My purpose was to learn a bit of Qt, C++11 and threading, not to mention Linux, and to have a useful bit of software on my machine to calibrate my joysticks. It can save and load joystick configuration data.

Yes, the code is not brilliant and being a hypocritical software engineer, it is not well documented.

I hope you may find it instructive.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/usbjoysticks