Hi guys, ive just installed FlightGear (great free flight simulater !)

and would reeealy like to use a joystick.

the instruction manual provides info on how to get the game and my joystick working together, but assumes first that linux can detect your joystick and is accepting its input.

what do i have to do to get it 'installed'

its a very simple and quite old joystick... 2 buttons, 2 axis.
but is an unheard of manufacture. 'InterAct Pc Mission'.

thanX

Moving to Linux - Hardware

Usually Joystick control is in the kernel, but I'm guessing your distro has enabled that for you (or hoping rather ).

Cool

Well, this is what I use to get my interact (dif model, though) working.

First, start up a console, then:

$ su
$ [enter root password]
$ /sbin/modprobe joydev
$ /sbin/modprobe ns558
$ /sbin/modprobe analog
$ /sbin/modprobe interact

Then, to test it, do this:

$ jstest /dev/js0

You'll see a bunch of number if everything is okay. Now try pushing all the buttons on your joystic and move the control pad around and make sure everything gets a response.

If that works, then you must edit the file (i THINK) /etc/rc.d/rc.local and add the /sbin/modprobes to it and that will get your gamepad loaded on startup.

This works for me in Red Hat 9, and I am assuming that your controller is plugged into the gameport, not a usb port.

Good luck!
-dave

thanX yeah that worked