Bug 84851
| Summary: | joystick driver requires a button to detect | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | corey <corey> |
| Component: | joystick | Assignee: | Dave Jones <davej> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | CC: | pfrields |
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-11-27 23:24:07 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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I'm fairly certain the 2.6 joystick drivers were redone anyway. I doubt the same kind of situation exists. corey |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) Description of problem: The joystick driver, generic, found in joydev.c (/drivers/input/joydev.c) looks for both axis and button in the connect function before it accepts the device. Many joysticks, OEM and Pedals, do not have buttons and some have even resorted to putting fake button circuits on the chip which mess things up sometimes. I made a personal fix for this, but it seems to be a large need as a whole. I used a usb joystick for this project. Corey Applied Research Associates Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. modprobe joydev 2. cat /dev/input/js0 3. Actual Results: device not found Expected Results: opens and displays characters from joystick device. Additional info: This exists on the joystick driver included in the lastest kernels.