Joystick

Introduction

Joystick can be a good device to play some games or to use graphical interface. Linux has an interface for it named joydev, to use it select joydev in linux configuration :

$ make linux26-menuconfig

then select in menu:

Device Drivers  --->
    Input device support  --->
            <*>   Joystick interface

To use it on the target, node has to be made :

cd /dev
rm js*
mkdir input
mknod input/js0 c 13 0
mknod input/js1 c 13 1
mknod input/js2 c 13 2
mknod input/js3 c 13 3
ln -s input/js0 js0
ln -s input/js1 js1
ln -s input/js2 js2
ln -s input/js3 js3

Links

• Linux kernel code documentation