sorry for the delay in replying... >I am testing the waters to see what the current status of using a Spaceball 5000 with O on Linux. When I last checked, the only driver that existed was supported by a third party and only worked for the serial version of the Spaceball (and not the USB version.) 3Dconnexion now market a new set of devices. two seem to look like developments of the spacemouse. 2 others look like little dials, maybe with some extra degrees of freedom. one 'dial' is very new and seems to be supported under XP. the others are xp, linux, shades of unix. all are USB. >Has anything developped in this area since that last post in Jan 2005? Is it known whether the Spaceball drivers work through GLUT, or are they using a separate interface? when last 'we' looked, the linux driver generated X-events. mark harris tried building GLUT to use these events but he couldn't get it to work. it's been on ice ever since >Finally, in an unrelated question, what is the status of supporting SGI dials in linux? Looking through the o-info archives, it seems as though multiple solutions exist. Some of these seem to be patches to freeGLUT while others are not. Is there a preference, and what is the recommended best practice? ov11 supports SG & SUN/DEC dials out of the box using code based on david gohara's test program. you just have to set up the environment variable. o has a call-back to glutDialsFunc, so if your glut supports dials, so will o. this means that joe krahn's special glut for dials will work out of the box. >Finally, looking to the future, is there any indication that these hardware issues will become standardized and less difficult to diagnose, both in i have a series of old, expensive input devices that are serial and will not work with my linux laptop. i'm prepared to buy a new USB device if people wanted to use the new models. i don't entirely agree with morten about the powermate. people are different, i prefer my nostromo n52, for example. since this is on my desk in the lab, when i work at home i just arcade the keyboard. if i had a space pilot ($400), i'd use it. but $400 is a lot. the space explorer is $300 (and more like the old space mouse). the space traveller is $200, and the latest thing the navigator is either $99 or $59 (driver on XP). so drop me a line if you would buy any of the above if it is supported in O, but don't buy anything until it is supported. tell me which one you'd buy. Alwyn Jones alwyn@xray.bmc.uu.se http://xray.bmc.uu.se/alwyn _______________________________________________ o-info mailing list (moderated) o-info@o-info.bioxray.dk http://o-info.bioxray.dk/mailman/listinfo/o-info
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