[freespace2] joystick/mouse turning speed patch

Geller Sandor wildy at petra.hos.u-szeged.hu
Mon Apr 25 04:16:34 EDT 2005


On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, Jonas Laurio wrote:

> @ Geller:
> This is a common problem with joysticks AFAIK, where the joystick does
> not actually use the expected entire range of motion. What usually works
> IMHO, is to just lop-off the extreme lower and higher ends of the range
> - hence a lot of people just use a lower range i.e. 32768 or whatever.
>
> What O.S. are you using - Linux? You have 4 axis, so is it an analog
> joystick? If both are yes, have you tried calibrating the joystick (i.e.
> with jscal)?

This is a Logitech Wingman Extreme Digital 3D, however the digital
doesn't mean that the output is 0 or 1, the joystick works as an analogue
joystick - I think the Digital word came from marketing needs :)) I'll try
jscal, thanks for pointing this out!

  Geller Sandor <wildy at petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>



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