gravis elimator gamepad issues...

footfrisbee · 09-02-2003, 12:36 AM

Check out a little program called "jstest". It's a commandline program that shows your joystick buttons and if they are depressed or not. On my system it's part of a package called "joystick". I think there are rpms for it too. Here's my output:

Code:

chris@Qbert:~$ jstest /dev/js0
Joystick (Gravis GamePad Pro USB ) has 2 axes and 10 buttons. Driver version is 2.1.0.
Testing ... (interrupt to exit)
Axes:  0:     0  1:     0 Buttons:  0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off 6:off  7:off  8:off  9:off

kalif · 09-03-2003, 09:02 PM

well.. i downloaded and tried to compile joystick (to see if it might make things easier on my system) to no avail... also the jstest program that is packaged with it does not work for some reason... my computer says that jstest is not there... any ideas?

footfrisbee · 09-04-2003, 12:54 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by kalif
well.. i downloaded and tried to compile joystick (to see if it might make things easier on my system) to no avail

I'm pretty sure there are binaries avialable, if all else fails you can just crack open an rpm and try to use the binary from it. Since the program is so small I don't there would be issues with that.

Quote:

... also the jstest program that is packaged with it does not work for some reason... my computer says that jstest is not there... any ideas?

So you trying to run it from the directory it's in? If that directory is not in your path (`env | grep PATH`), then you have to type in the full path to that binary. You can also short hand it by using "./", e.g.

Code:

$ pwd
/home/chris/tmp/joystick
$ ls
.   ..   jstest   jscal
$ /home/chris/tmp/joystick/jstest
blah blah, program output...
- OR -
$ ./jstest
blah blah, program output...

kalif · 09-04-2003, 10:57 AM

the problem is not with compiling it... that worked fine... it was trying to add the patch to my kernal or the lines to my modules... either command it told me to do did not work. as for jstest... well i DID try it from the directory...

bash-2.05a# cd /root
bash-2.05a# ls
Desktop Mail joystick-1.2.15 loadlin16c.txt loadlin16c.zip
bash-2.05a# cd /root/joystick-1.2.15
bash-2.05a# ls
COPYING joy-assassin.c joy-spaceball.c joystick.txt
ChangeLog joy-console.c joy-spaceorb.c jsattach.1
Makefile joy-creative.c joy-thrustmaster.c jsattach.c
README joy-db9.c joy-turbografx.c jscal.1
README-API joy-gravis.c joy-warrior.c jscal.c
README-parport joy-lightning.c joydump.c jstest.1
TODO joy-logitech.c joystick-api.txt jstest.c
joy-amiga.c joy-magellan.c joystick-parport.txt linux
joy-analog.c joy-pci.c joystick.c pci-gameport
joy-analog.h joy-sidewinder.c joystick.h
bash-2.05a# ./ jstest /dev/js0
bash: ./: is a directory
bash-2.05a# ./jstest /dev/js0
bash: ./jstest: No such file or directory
bash-2.05a#

footfrisbee · 09-04-2003, 02:43 PM

I'm confused, I don't see any binaries in that directory listing. Try changing to that directory and running
# make
then you should have the jstest binary. (I just tried it myself.) As for the patching stuff, I don't think I'd worry about that. Just use jstest and a diagnostic tool.

kalif · 09-04-2003, 03:54 PM

funny... that is the directory after i ran make... so i have no jstest... any other suggestions?

footfrisbee · 09-04-2003, 05:50 PM

Hand compile it with
# gcc -o jstest jstest.c

kalif · 09-04-2003, 10:09 PM

heh... do not worry... the issue resolved itself when i uprgraded to slackware 9.0. thank you for your continued help in this issue however! your help is greatly appreciated.

footfrisbee · 09-04-2003, 10:33 PM

Glad to hear it's working now.