Only since you kindly helped me with getting it working. Thank you very much for that!
Now, considering its price the SpaceMouse is a rather noble device if used for gaming, therefore I don't expect many players to post in this thread.
Still, for those that do have one, lets syndicate our efforts here!
I'll make the start with the basic configuratin:
Part 1: get the kernel drivers working:
1.1 Serial support:
If you use a stock (distribution) kernel it is very likely that the serial support is already enabled. On IBM-PCs, the module is called 8250 (or 8250_acpi or 8250_pci).
If you roll your own kernels, the Serial drivers are under Device Drivers --> Character Devices -->Serial Drivers --> 8250/16550 and compatible serial support.
1.2 USB:
I don't have an USB version of the SpaceMouse so I can't give and advice here. However, there is tons of documentation on how to get USB working under Linux out there. I am sure you will find it.
My guess is the crucial setting is Device Drivers --> USB support --> USB Human Interface Device (full HID) support, and *maybe* USB Serial Converter support --> USB Generic Serial Driver
1.3: SpaceMouse driver:
Go to Device Drivers --> Input Device Support and enable (at least) "Event Interface", "Joysticks" and "LogiCad3d Magellan/SpaceMouse 6dof controllers"
Save your config, rebuild, install and boot the new kernel.
1.4 Loading the modules:
modprobe 8250
modprobe magellan
check your dmesg (or /var/log/messages) output, it should read something like this:
Code:
Mar 18 22:55:58 scourge kernel: Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
Mar 18 22:55:58 scourge kernel: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Mar 18 22:55:58 scourge kernel: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
1.5 Get the inpututils installed.
This is the part where I needed blindcoders help! So to give credit, I'll just quote him here:
blindcoder said:
| Could you provide some help with this?
Sure. The inputattach program is part of the linuxconsole project.
http://sf.net/projects/linuxconsole
I've been using the debian package though (though I'm not using debian
)
since the CVS checkout didn't compile for me:
http://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/joystick
Download the joystick-*.orig.tar.gz and extract it.
The inputattach program can then be found in the utils subdirectory after
running `make' in there.
Use it like this:
./inputattach -mag /dev/tts/1 &
Or wherever your Spacemouse is attached. This creates a /dev/input/eventX
interface which you can then use in privateer.
This worked fine for me on Gentoo, on Debian you would obviously just install the package and I am sure the other major distributions have it packaged as well.
After giving the inputattach command, check dmesg again, it should now read:
Code:
Mar 19 12:53:01 scourge kernel: input: LogiCad3D Magellan / SpaceMouse on ttyS0/serio0
Mar 19 12:53:01 scourge kernel: serio: Serial port ttyS0
You can now do "cat /dev/input/eventX" and wiggle the SpaceMouse to find out which device it got attached to.
Part 2: Privateer Configuration:
In the setup screen (/usr/share/games/privateer/bin/setup) I set "No Mouse" and "Backwards Joy 3 Axes and Throttle" and the SpaceMouse automatically worked in the game.
However I am not fully satisfied with the controlls, as "roll" it set to the SpaceMouse y-axis a.k.a "moving knob forward and back", and tilting it forward and sideways doesn't do anything at all. I have yet to find out how to configure more axes, if someone has a better working setup please post it!
This concludes the guide for now, HTH, and I will post updates as they happen.
R. I know that there's a module for this in the joystick section of the Linux kernel. Anyone has experience with this?
