Re: Joystick as Pointer

[Robert Norton <robert.m.norton@gmail.com>]

On 13/06/05, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> 
> Googling xfree86 joystick gives some insight: there indeed used to be a
> joystick driver, mentioned in http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/xinput3.html
> But it wasn't maintained and most probably removed since. You may yet
> want to get that source code back and maintain it.

Thanks I'll look into this. Someone also mentioned a package called
js2mouse which creates a virtual mouse device controlled by joystick
input. Although this seems less elegant it has the advantage that I
managed to get it partially working last night.

Robert
 
> Regards,
> Samuel
>