Re: joydev.c and saitek cyborg evo force

["Renato Golin" <rengolin@gmail.com>]

On 04/06/07, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote:
> sorry, don't fully understand - what do you mean by "got the messages but
> not the fix"?

The range "detected" was 0 to 255 but both X and Y axis are reporting 4096.

I think that the code in drivers/hid/hid-input.c:
if ((device->quirks & HID_QUIRK_BADPAD) && (usage->code == ABS_X ||
usage->code == ABS_Y)) {
  a = field->logical_minimum = 0;
  b = field->logical_maximum = 255;
}

should get what's being reported from the device instead of hard-code
to 0 to 255 (which might not even be an unsigned range).


> Well calibration using jscal might be needed, that should be fine. The
> question is whether the ranges are now correct and calibration using jscal
> works fine.

Ok, so maybe in that case my automatic calibration is still worth to
put on joydev.c
and users from all joysticks in the quirk list would benefit.


> So please let me know whether the badpad quirk is the correct one for this
> joystick. If so, I'll queue it in my tree for upstream.

Well, it did the trick if that's what you mean but would be better to
get the correct range from start... But I don't know how difficult it
is, so maybe we'll have to stick with the automatic calibration
afterwards...

cheers,
--renato

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