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Bug 300

Summary: `Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback 2 Joystick' (and likes?) support
Product: SDL Reporter: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3>
Component: joystickAssignee: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: 1.2.9   
Hardware: x86   
OS: FreeBSD   

Description Dmitry Marakasov 2006-08-10 15:22:24 UTC 
I've just succeeded in making SDL recognise my USB joystick.
The problem is that this joystick doesn't use report id 0. For INPUT type reports (usual axes/buttons values from joystick to host) it uses report id 1 instead. As SDL has report id 0 hardcoded (src/joystick/bsd/SDL_sysjoystick.c:283), it won't recognise the device at all.
I am not sure of clean solution of this problem
We may iterate report id's and pick the first one with input descriptor size > 0, or we may first parse report descriptor to find report that has, for example, axe values in it.
Feel free to contact me for any additional details.
Comment 1 Dmitry Marakasov 2006-09-12 10:03:03 UTC 
Erm, further investigation results: it's not fixed with just report ID change. This joystick is absolutely braindead and it's report desc is absolutely broken.

I think changes suggested won't be useful at all.