Tom,
Thanks. I have looked at the documentation. However, there is much
need explanation on troubleshooting. I've done all the steps listed in
that documentation and still no luck in getting it to work. It uses the
jsattach command to probe and attach the spaceball to the serial port,
however, it returns "jsattach: can't set line discipline". There is
hardly any help in correcting this issue.
If anyone else has corrected this problem, I really appreciate any
assistance.
Thanks for your input Tom.
Cheers!
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Flynn [mailto:flynnt@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 3:14 PM
To: Kevin M. Young
Cc: info-inventor-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Spaceball 4000flx - Linux
I don't think it's been discussed yet...
Inventor uses the X Input Extension for reading the spaceball. I think
there used to be support for the spaceball in the XFree-3.3 days, but I
don't think it has been maintained because I believe it has been
surpassed
by the linux kernel input device code. I pretty sure they have
support for the 4000flx, but I don't think the older ones are supported.
Take a quick look in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/input/joystick.txt
-tom
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Kevin M. Young wrote:
> I'm new to the discussion list, so please forgive me if this topic has
> already been covered and resolved.
>
> I recently bought a spaceball 4000 flx to use with our open inventor
> applications that we have ported from
> SGI to LINUX (REDHAT 7.x). I am having no luck getting LINUX or Open
> Inventor to use the spaceball.
> Anyone with experience in getting this device (or similar device) to
> work under linux and open inventor, I would appreciate your
assistance.
>
> Thank you in advance for any help in resolving this issue.
>
>
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