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Originally Posted by f2thak

for me it downloads but says "unable to install" part way thru install.........

it seems install cant overwrite joydev.ko as ive installed another kernel thats updated that file (sixaxis support)

Originally Posted by Flandry

Yes, i was going to ask if you had installed one of the hacks going around. The joydev kernel module is available as a package now, so hopefully there won't be too many taking the hard route to installing it.

Well good, it seems this install works for stock N900s.



Glad to hear it. There is actually no jumping in Doom. I do plan on making gestures mappable, though. Unfortunately i have more plans than time.



Nope. I hope to eventually make the camera button an optional joystick button.

Originally Posted by f2thak

so theres a compatibility issue then with sixaxis joydev kernel?? thx

im unable to install joydev kernel thru app manager also, i get the same error

Originally Posted by Flandry

I haven't looked at the sixaxis setup in detail but from what you describe, i suspect that they are providing the same file in their package, so the package manager sees that another package would collide and refuses to let you install it. All it requires is for the sixaxis maintainer to either depend on the joydev package instead of installing the module, or to mark the package as "Provides" joydev. If his package advertises itself as providing the virtual package "joydev", the accelemymote package that depends on "joydev" will happily install and use that module. The first option is better because there are obviously cases where someone would want to uninstall the sixaxis package and not the accelemymote package, and that wouldn't be possible with the latter option.

Maybe you can point him to this post so he's aware of the problem?

Edit: of course individual users can "force" the install, which should work fine, but that's not a solution.

Originally Posted by mct

First of all:
Thx alot for this,very nice work and i got it working aswell.
But i'm a linux n00b and would like to copy your button settings f2thak.
I downloaded the .fdi file but got no idea how to copy that to the right folder
Can anyone explain how to do this?

Originally Posted by f2thak

seems theres an issue with joydev kernel conflicts..

Originally Posted by smoku

Oh cool. I do not have to provide joydev kernel anymore.
Thanks for the info - I'll update the packages.