I finally got around to trying to play Desert Combat under cedega, which worked fine after I installed the newest nvidia drivers, and it is the one thing I have missed from windows, but I do not know how to get the game to see my joystick. I am using a USB Microsoft Precision Pro. I do not know of a native linux game in which to test the setup, but jstest picks up all the input without problems.

garrett@linux:~> jstest /dev/input/js0
Joystick (Microsoft Microsoft SideWinder Precision Pro (USB)) has 6 axes and 11 buttons. Driver version is 2.1.0.
Testing ... (interrupt to exit)
Axes: 0: 0 1: 0 2: 0 3: 0 4: 0 5: 0 Buttons: 0f

The relevant part of My .transgaming/config initially read:

[joystick]
;; Configuration of the function of joystick axes
;; The joystick name and axis functions can be determined with jstest.
;; The available axis types are:
;; "none", "X", "Y", "Z", "RX", "RY", "RZ",
;; "slider", "hat", "POV", and "ball"
;; "hat" and "POV" are synonymous. Hats use two axes.
"Logitech Inc. WingMan RumblePad" = "X,Y,slider,Z,RZ,hat,none"

I have tried replacing the last line with

"Microsoft Microsoft SideWinder Precision Pro (USB)" = "X,Y,slider,Z,RZ,hat,none"

and

"/dev/input/js0" = "X,Y,slider,Z,RZ,hat,none"

(I don't know why it says microsoft twice either)

I have no idea what to try next. I am using Cedega 4.0-1.

Thanks in advance

This thread has been viewed 90+ times since my initial post. If any forum regulars who come across this thread could please at least leave some opinion as to why I am getting no replies, for future reference, it would be greatly appreciated.

I have the same problem.... but with an other/joystick/game =/

I did this debug:

$ cedega --debugmsg +joystick Speed.exe
fixme:cdrom:CDROM_GetIdeInterface cdrom not a block device!!!
mmtime pid=17215 tid=17222
fixme:ddrawirect3DDevice9_SetTexture unsupported texture stage/sampler 4
fixme:ddrawirect3DDevice9_SetTexture unsupported texture stage/sampler 4
fixme:dinput:IDirectInput8AImpl_EnumDevicesBySemantics (this=0x55952504,(null),0x719b38,0x405630,0x719b38,0000): semi-stub
fixme:dinput:IDirectInputDevice8AImpl_BuildActionMap (0x5599d184)->(0x55e41f7c,(null),00000002): stub !
trace:joystick:LINUXINPUT_DevName (0x5a4b9b40)
trace:joystick:find_event_joystick joystick0 not found
trace:joystick:LINUXINPUT_GetDevCaps (0x5a4b9b40)
err:module:BUILTIN_LoadModule loaded .so but dll joystick.drv still not found
trace:joystick:LINUXINPUT_DevName (0x5a4b9b40)
trace:joystick:find_event_joystick joystick0 not found
trace:joystick:LINUXINPUT_GetDevCaps (0x5a4b9b40)
err:module:BUILTIN_LoadModule loaded .so but dll joystick.drv still not found
trace:joystick:LINUXINPUT_DevName (0x5a4b9b40)
trace:joystick:find_event_joystick joystick0 not found
trace:joystick:LINUXINPUT_GetDevCaps (0x5a4b9b40)
err:module:BUILTIN_LoadModule loaded .so but dll joystick.drv still not found
trace:joystick:LINUXINPUT_DevName (0x5a4b9b40)
trace:joystick:find_event_joystick joystick0 not found
trace:joystick:LINUXINPUT_GetDevCaps (0x5a4b9b40)
err:module:BUILTIN_LoadModule loaded .so but dll joystick.drv still not found
fixme:dsoundirectSoundCreate8 Check wcaps
fixme:dsound:IDirectSoundImpl_SetCooperativeLevel (0x5599cb3c,00010021,2):stub
fixme:dsound:IKsPropertySetImpl_QuerySupport (0x5599e830,{4a4e6fc1-c341-11d1-b73a-444553540000},0,0x55e41ef4), stub!
fixme:dsoundirectSoundCreate8 Check wcaps
fixme:dsound:IDirectSoundImpl_SetCooperativeLevel (0x5599cb3c,00010021,2):stub
fixme:ddraw3D_GL_update_render_states unsupported render state 161 (MULTISAMPLEANTIALIAS), value=0x00000001
fixme:ddraw3D_GL_update_render_states unsupported render state 162 (MULTISAMPLEMASK), value=0xffffffff
fixme:dsound:IDirectSoundImpl_SetCooperativeLevel (0x5599cb3c,00010021,2):stub
fixme:xrender:X11DRV_XRender_Finalize Free cached glyphsets


My joystick is also founf be jstest...:
$ jstest /dev/input/js0
Joystick (Padix Co. Ltd. SPEED WHEEL 3 Vibration ) has 3 axes and 16 buttons. Driver version is 2.1.0.

and in my .transgaming/config have:
[joystick]
"Padix Co. Ltd. SPEED WHEEL 3 Vibration" = "X,Y,none"

what could be worng?
thx!

I run SuSE Linux 10.1 on an AMD 3000 with 512Mb memory. It mostly works real peachy, but ...

My Saitek X45 will only run after using YaST to display its presence. If I dont use YaST first, the joystick cant be found. This may help some previous contributors to this thread, but I am sure there is a script which can be edited so that the joystick can be found after boot without all the aggro.

Any thoughts anyone??

Max