UnDead

Maybe not exactly what I did, but that's the way I went - that is - I checked various settings related to usbhid and it got me to experiment with different versions of the system kernel. Also, it seems that in the current version of the atari800 emulator in Arch Linux it works with some "trick", i.e. the emulator actually wants to use the SDL 1.2 library, and the current version is 2.0, so the package is installed as one of the dependencies - sdl12-compat, whose task is to "translate" references to SDL 1.2 functions into functions in SDL 2.0. All this, together with the latest kernel, caused some strange problem (only the fire button works). I changed the kernel to LTS, i.e. 5.15.89 and ... it started, i.e. all directions in the joystick work in the atari800 - currently CX40, but also in any other from the era). Anyway... thank you!

I started with enabling these settings. But since it didn't work... I've looked at the emulator's sources in C, so now I know how the emulator uses joysticks/pads (via SDL) and what calls to this library it uses. I already know that currently it has no right to work properly, because it's just an emulator that supports joysticks working only as "Hat". So the current code does not allow the use of digital joysticks connected via a USB adapter (which is interesting because other emulators support them without any problems). Hence my question: does anyone have a patch that allows the use of such a configuration? I prefer to make sure before I start writing such a patch myself, and in the process it turns out that someone has already done it a long time ago.

The problem is that the adapter I have is designed to connect digital joysticks to the USB port (so there are only "two state" axes with values of -32768 or 32767) and no hats at all. So there is no /dev/input/uinput device in the system, i.e. the xboxdrv utility will not work (and the needed uinput module cannot be loaded into the kernel).

Hi All, I have the following setup: (Arch Linux, atari800 5.0.0-1 from AUR, and hexagons.de 2 port joystick to USB adapter): % sdl-jstest --list Found 2 joystick(s) Joystick Name: 'hexagons.de Retro-Joystick' Joystick Number: 0 Number of Axes: 2 Number of Buttons: 2 Number of Hats: 0 Number of Balls: 0 Joystick Name: 'hexagons.de Retro-Joystick' Joystick Number: 1 Number of Axes: 2 Number of Buttons: 2 Number of Hats: 0 Number of Balls: 0 and the Competition Pro (old, good DB9 version) joysitck in port #0: Joystick Name: 'hexagons.de Retro-Joystick' Joystick Number: 0 Axes 2: 0: 0 [ # ] 1: 0 [ # ] Buttons 2: 0: 0 [ ] 1: 0 [ ] Hats 0: Balls 0: Press Ctrl-c to exit as you can see, the joystick is used "by Axes", not "by Hats". It works without any problem with Hatari, Altirra (with wine), fs-uae etc... But, with the atari800 only the fire button works, because the emulator seems to force the use of Hats (according to the input.c source file). Have any of you heard of a patch that allows you to use joysticks in the configuration I have? From the level of the SDL library, this is not a problem, so adding support for such adapters to the atari800 should not be a black magic. I searched for something like this in search engines (not only Google), but I didn't come up with anything specific, hence my question on the forum. Best regards, UnDead

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