How do I get my joysticks to work in Linux?

corp769 · 04-16-2011, 08:48 AM

Actually, I'm sorry. Before you go do anything else, please check this site out and learn the basics, it will help all of us, mainly you. No offense, but you need general knowledge of how to work linux in order for me/us to help you.

http://linuxbasics.org/

Josh

LAPIII · 04-16-2011, 09:10 AM

I was just confused. Please give me the complete code to enter into the terminal then, i.e. change the directory and where to, extract, and install

corp769 · 04-16-2011, 09:43 AM

Sorry man, I'm not here to do everything for you. Check out the basics to linux, and read my previous posts. Everything I have said so far is pretty much all you need to know and understand how to extract the tarball. Even search on google if need be.... This is how most of us learned, and we are not here to do everything for you. When you get completely stuck, let me know, and I will gladly assist you. But just make certain that you know what commands to use and what they do.

Josh

LAPIII · 04-25-2011, 10:30 AM

This is what I've done so far:

Code:

cd ~/Downloads/
tar -xzvf qjoypad-4.1.0.tar.gz
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install libxtst-dev
sudo apt-get install libqt4-dev

I got this error message when opening Readme.TXT:

Code:

Could not open the file /home/lapiii/Downloads/qjoypad-4.1.0/README.txt.

gedit has not been able to detect the character encoding.
Please check that you are not trying to open a binary file.
Select a character encoding from the menu and try again.

Character Encoding:

Current Local (UFE-
Western (ISO-8859-15)

Can you suggest what I should do next?

corp769 · 04-25-2011, 05:25 PM

Instead of using gedit, try kate or vim. If still no go, try messing with more common character encodings.