Spaceball, linux and X.

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allen
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Spaceball, linux and X.

Post by allen »

A couple of years ago I, bought several spaceballs. They were as follows
1) 2003b ( Hp ), this has 8 buttons, with a 9th button on the ball, and required an external power supply
2) 2003c (IBM) 8 button no external power supply

3) 3003 (spaceball)

4) 4000 Flx (serial)

I had to modify the input attach program to allow the spaceball to be seen by linux for all but the 3003. If you would like my code please email me. I would like also to collect the following information if possible:
spaceball model: (onback)
version string: (if known ).
vendor: ie. hp

Also Do you plan to use X windows with this ?

Allen
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Legacy Spaceball devices

Post by UtaSH »

Hi Allen,

our current driver for the 3D navigation devices 3DxWareUnix still supports the Spaceball 4000 FLX. This driver is a user space driver and needs X. There is an SDK for this driver which can be easily integrated into a 3D application running with X.

The vendor information (IBM, HP) can not be retrieved from the device.

Unfortunately the Spaceball 2003 and 3003 are not supported anymore.

If you do not use our driver you can ask the device for the version string by sending:

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hv\r   // Spaceball 2003 and 3003
or

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"\r    // Spaceball 4000

to the device.

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Re: Legacy Spaceball devices

Post by jnweiger »

uludwig wrote: If you do not use our driver you can ask the device for the version string by sending:

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hv\r   // Spaceball 2003 and 3003
Uta Ludwig
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Uta, is there documentation available of the low level codes, that a 2003
device should accept?
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Post by UtaSH »

Sorry, no documentation for the Spaceball 2003 available. :(

Uta
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