On 5 January 2012 20:37, <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Anisha, > You don't mention which distro you are on, but some/most have a test > application 'ffcfstress' which cycles the position of a wheel/joystick. > > There is a 'spring force' which has an adjustable center, but most wheels > don't support this. 'ffcfstress' uses a 'constant force' (to the left or > right) and monitors the position of the wheel. > > Thus using a control loop it modulates the amount of force, lowering it as > the wheel approaches it's target. > > If you don't want to use the icotl interface, then you could look at a > userspace lib such as SDL1.3 which (mostly) supports ForceFeedback. > > Cheers, > Simon Thanks for following up, Simon. I am grateful to you. "ffcfstress" does indeed look promising. The distro is OpenSuse 11.3 and this program is already there. I'll take a look. :) -Anisha -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
