On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 05:35 -0400, Chris Kloiber wrote: > Should it be a problem? No. Have I tried a joystick since Red Hat 7.x... > No. Did it work then... Not for me. I can assure you that a *lot* has happened with device support since RedHat 7.x. Especially that all those deep-down changes that tended to knock out a lot of older device drivers years ago until they got rewritten for new frameworks have paid off. It seems to be a lot easier these days to integrate support for new hardware without specialized kernel drivers that have to be accepted. Some time ago I tested 2 brand new web cameras. I wasn't too surprised to find that a brand new MS HD webcam worked out of the box, but that a very brand new Tandberg high-end HD Web Cam also worked without any hassle was a surprise. I walked by our photographers and borrowed the Eizo color calibrator that came with their high-end photo screens, and it worked straight out of the box on F13, letting me get the same colors on my external and internal screens on this laptop. Bluetooth keyboards, bluetooth headsets... stuff that requires a driver installation hell on that other OS... Just plug and play on F13. I would say buy the wheel and test. If it doesn't work file a RFE for the driver and be prepared to help out with log files. Cheap no-brand devices very often follow the blueprints from the hardware manufacturers very closely, so the chances are very good that it will work. Perhaps only with the addition of the wheel's USB identifiers to the driver. Tuxkart is very unstable while configuring the controls for my wheel. I have to set only a few controls at the time, saving and exiting. I often have to retry several times, as setting the key to control one action sometimes leads to some other setting going bonkers. Once that fight is done the wheel works fine. It would actually be nice if apps like tuxkart, tuxtype, tuxracer ++ had some command line option to go into a 'kids' mode where configuration settings 'disappeared'. I guess your kids are like mine. They just have to test any menu option... -- birger -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
