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Re: Force-Feedback Joystick Support?
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2017 12:59 pm
by Getafix
gsagostinho wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2017 11:58 am
Sorry to hear about the problems, Getafix!
No worries mate!
I'm just anxious on how this attempt will turn out,
and I felt like sharing some info why there is no news yet on that front.
Re: Force-Feedback Joystick Support?
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 11:31 pm
by Getafix
Hello again.
Unfortunately the Linux Mint 18 cannot get BlackWidow (see previous posts) to vibrate.
Have you managed to get Linux recognize force feedback joystick capability?
If, yes, then your help is needed to test if the SDL library we have prepared, actually works.
The following code will download in your downloads folder a small package.
It will extract it in a folder called hapticSDL and then execute the test.
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$ cd ~/Downloads
~/Downloads$ wget http://terrastorage.no-ip.info/oolite/testhaptic.tgz
~/Downloads$ tar xzvf testhaptic.tgz
~/Downloads$ cd hapticSDL
~/Downloads/hapticSDL$ ./testhaptic.sh
If the test reports
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~/Downloads/hapticSDL$ ./testhaptic.sh
0 Haptic devices detected.
No Haptic devices found!
~/Downloads/hapticSDL$
...this is bad news, but share it anyhow.
We prefer that you see something like the following and the joystick vibrating
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~/Downloads/hapticSDL$ ./testhaptic.sh
1 Haptic devices detected.
Device: BLACK WIDOW XE Flight Stick
Supported effects [128 effects, 128 playing]:
constant
sine
square
triangle
sawtoothup
sawtoothdown
ramp
friction
spring
damper
inertia
custom
Supported capabilities:
gain
status
Uploading effects
effect 0: Sine Wave
effect 1: Sawtooth Up
effect 2: Constant Force
effect 3: Condition Spring
effect 4: Condition Inertia
Now playing effects for 5 seconds each with 1 second delay between
Playing effect 0
Playing effect 1
Playing effect 2
Playing effect 3
Playing effect 4
~/Downloads/hapticSDL$
Re: Force-Feedback Joystick Support?
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2018 6:09 pm
by Getafix
This is just to give an update that implementation of a haptic management class is in progress... slowly, but in progress.
It's not yet in a state to have anything published/committed in the relevant code branch, though.
In the meantime, we are toying around with the haptic-enabled SDL library, getting acquainted with variations of the "rambling" effects and the kind of control we can have over them.