how to change permanently a script in etc
 

Hello everybody.
Newbie but Linux enthousiast here.
I play MAME in Ubuntu 9.10 and every time i boot my PC I calibrate my joystick with jscal. The correction values are stored in a script ( /etc/joystick.cal ) but when I reboot, the old values are written again in so I have either to repeat calibration or open the script and give the right correction values (which I have stored somewhere).
So , what is the way to save my changes in this script permanently ?
Thanks in advance

The location and name of /etc/joystick.cal suggest that it is a configuration file, not a script. There's some info about setting up joysticks on ubuntu here.

I have already tried jscalibrator, didnt work for me . jscal works fine but I have to repeat calibration after boot, this is the issue

Hi,

Why not just save the calibration data or backup the '/etc/joystick.cal' in '/etc/joystick.cal-restore' file then just copy that back to '/etc/joystick.cal' after a boot.

Simple but effective workaround :) Could be done during the boot, that is by a boot script.

Really simple and effective!
 

Yes, it solved the problem. Thank you

Hi,

Glad it worked.

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