cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@wgois.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/wgois login
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cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@wgois.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/wgois co -P ois
Also, I'm still curious about questions 3 & 4 so please post the output from "ls -l /dev/input/event*" before and after you connect the Joystick.
Me thinking out loud: Now that Irrlicht has Joystick support, would it be better to add Force Feedback also as a compile option? I'd be willing to create the patch and it would be one less library to worry about...
It isn't that I'm an expert on Force Feedback, instead I'm fairly certain that I could adapt what OIS is currently doing. And because OIS is licensed under zlib/libpng, I don't think that would be a problem. I would probably use similar interface classes to upload, start, and stop FF effects.
OIS uses DirectInput for FF on Windows so that would be a dependency. Do you think that would be an issue within Irrlicht?
Well, some investigations about other implementations could help, but I guess that as long as it's only an option for special cases we could still add it. Maybe we can also get a DirectInput joystick option?!