Joystick

That OK!
I've discovered that button n° 1 must be pressed to enable joystick.

Thanks to everybody who help me.
Regards

Hi John
I don't know why there is a "custom_" but I don't add it (remember that I'm very limited whith Linux). I use stepconf to setup EMC. It have been created by stepconf or another stuff.
Regards

Hi
After my computer crashes, I make a clean newer installation of Hardy Heron and upgrate from EMC 2.3 to 2.5.2. Before crash, my joystick worked fine and I do files backup (hal, ini, etc.). Since reinstall, it does'nt work .
It seems that joystick is recognized by linux, but not by EMC who crashes.
Could someone help me?


Halcmd: show pin
===============
nothing....

EMC error message:
============
Debug file information:
Can not find -sec MOT -var MOT -num 1
Can not find -sec IO -var IO -num 1
Can not find -sec LINUXCNC -var NML_FILE -num 1
Can not find -sec EMC -var NML_FILE -num 1
No input devices could be opened. This usually indicates a misconfigured
system. Please read the section 'PERMISSIONS AND UDEV' in the hal_input
manpage
ma-machine.hal:6: hal_input exited without becoming ready
6139
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
Stopping realtime threads
Unloading hal components

less /proc/bus/input/devices
======================
I: Bus=0003 Vendor=046d Product=c216 Version=0110
N: Name="Logitech Logitech Dual Action"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1f.2-1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/input/input2
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=event2 js0
B: EV=1b
B: KEY=fff 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: ABS=30027
B: MSC=10

sudo cat /dev/input/js0
==================
����������������������������� ���
The joy seems to respond.
Notice : I do the configuration described in tutorial (my earlier posts)

You might want to look here...
wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UPDATING

Did you ...

remove the inifile line NML_FILE = emc.nml

and look here...

wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?action...f=1&id=UpdatingTo2.5

Rick G

Hi Rick G
The EMC config. files (ini, hal, etc in the config. dir) were backed up from EMC 2.5.2 with jostick operative before crash and I use them after reinstall ubuntu and update from EMC2.3 to 2.4 and 2.5.
There is no emc.nml in the config dir.
I do not use stepconf to initialise EMC but use the backuped above files.

Hi Andy
www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/man/man1/hal_input.1.html says
"For more information on writing udev rules, see udev(8)"

Where is udev(8)?

Below the content of the dir. What must I do ? (I am lost...)
There is a file 95-hal.rules whitch is empy...
root@jp-cnc:/etc/udev/rules.d# ls
05-options.rules 70-persistent-net.rules
05-udev-early.rules 75-cd-aliases-generator.rules
20-names.rules 75-persistent-net-generator.rules
30-cdrom_id.rules 80-programs.rules
40-basic-permissions.rules 85-alsa.rules
40-permissions.rules 85-brltty.rules
45-fuse.rules 85-hdparm.rules
45-libmtp7.rules 85-hplj10xx.rules
50-libpisock9.rules 85-hwclock.rules
50-xserver-xorg-input-wacom.rules 85-ifupdown.rules
55-hpmud.rules 85-pcmcia.rules
60-persistent-input.rules 90-modprobe.rules
60-persistent-storage.rules 95-hal.rules
60-persistent-storage-tape.rules 95-udev-late.rules
60-symlinks.rules 99-rtai.rules
61-persistent-storage-edd.rules README
70-persistent-cd.rules