Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gamepad is attached... and what?

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Sascha Hlusiak <saschahlusiak@arcor.de> wrote:
> Am Dienstag 17 März 2009 15:51:15 schrieb Andrew Gaydenko:
>> On Tuesday 17 March 2009 17:37:40 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> > Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
>> > > Hi!
>> > >
>> > > Have bought a gamepad for my son - he plays supertuxkart (USB, "Black
>> > > Warrior Patriot Vibration Gamepad"), attached, added
>> > >
>> > > Section "InputDevice"
>> > >          Identifier "joy1"
>> > >          Driver "joystick"
>> > > EndSection
>> > >
>> > > to xorg.conf, restarted X (Gnome), and ... what?
>> >
>> > I guess it depends on the version of X.Org.  With 1.5.x, you don't need
>> > an xorg.conf entry.  You just plug it in and it works.  The kernel must
>> > of course have joystick support.
> Little clarification. The xf86-input-joystick module is to use the joystick as
> an X input device to control the mouse cursor. It is not needed to play games
> or to use it in programs that directly use the joystick, like mplayer.
>
> You can use xf86-input-joystick to control the cursor or to use a joystick in
> games that do NOT know how to handle joysticks themselves.
>
> Neither you need joystick in INPUT_DEVICES, nor you need an entry in xorg.conf
> nor have xorg-server compiled with hal to use a joystick in games the usual
> way. Appropriate kernel modules and udev will do.

Good information, thank you.