• Gravis GrIP MultiPort Immersion Impulse Engine 2000 Immersion Interface Box Logitech 3D Mouse Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback Pro & Wheel with ForceFeedback Pegasus FreeD Technology Playgroup Unwinder ThrustMaster serial joysticks If you have any input devices you'd like to be supported by these drivers, tell me!
• MacRecorder (HyperSound & SoundEdit) + Driver + Build Guide Sound recording software for use with the MacRecorder system. The MacRecorder device is a sound input interface for earl.
• Input Output Audio Driver Controller is an application designed to help you view the input and output drivers of the sound cards you have installed on your computer.

Introduction

The Linux Input Driver project is a project that replace the current handling of keyboards, mice andjoysticks in Linux. It's finally modular, and attempts to merge as much of architecture independentcode as possible. For mice, keyboards, joysticks and other input devices it tries to create asimple, easy to program for and uniform API, with straightforward binding to XInput.

The project is progressing quite rapidly, already supporting all previously supported PC/x86devices, and more. Support for other architectures is lagging a little, but that's going to be fixedsoon.

Many of the drivers were improved significantly during the proces of rewriting them for the InputDriver project - for example serial MouseSystems mice have two times the refresh rate with the InputDrivers (48 updates/sec), which makes them finally comfortable to use, AT keyboards and PS/2 micecan be plugged in and out at runtime, without problems, analog joysticks have much better resolution(9-12 bits). No more problems with autorepeat on Toshiba laptops, because autorepeat is done bysoftware. It will soon offer tighter integration with ALSAsound drivers for better gameport support. And more and more.

Parts of the Input Driver project are already integrated in the kernel - the core, userlandinterface modules and USB input device drivers are a part of the kernel USB support.A patch was created to replace the in-kernel Joystick Driver project with newInput Drivers. It adds significant benefits and fixes many bugs. Because thejoystick driver is self contained and because the existing USB input devicesupport will be use, there is a hope this change will happen in the 2.4 kernelcycle. See http://www.suse.cz/development/input/joystick.html.

Drivers Input Devices Windows Files. Newest Releases. Gravis Xperience 4.5 Final Drivers and software for Gravis hardware under Windows. Windows Freeware.

Replacing current keyboard and mouse drivers is a much larger surgery to the kernel, although neededbadly. Because of that, integration of the rest of the Input Driver project will have to wait tillthe release of a developmental 2.5 kernel. It will go together with the rest of the Linux Console Project.

News

2000/08/19 - Fixed support for PSX pads
2000/08/19 - Added IM Explorer support, changed mousedev to emulate IM Ex instead of GenPS/2 for 5 buttons
2000/08/18 - Added support for IBM RapidAccess and Chicony multimedia keyboards
2000/08/17 - Fixed ns558 to correctly allocate its i/o region.
2000/08/17 - Added a link to Franz Sirl's Input/PPC page
2000/08/17 - Merged in kernel USB fixes, fixed GenPS/2 emulation
2000/07/14 - Fixed direction gamepad in sidewinder
2000/06/25 - Fixed gamecon and db9
2000/06/24 - Fixed support for SpaceBall 4000 FLX
2000/06/23 - Fixed oops in joydev, evdev and mousedev
2000/06/22 - Joystick input drivers are in the 2.4.0-test2 kernel!
2000/06/21 - Created a joystick-only input patch, see http://www.suse.cz/development/input/joystick.html
2000/06/21 - Added support for ESS Solo1 and S3 SonicVibes PCI gameports
2000/06/08 - Updated installation guidelines - see Quick Start
2000/06/08 - Added support for two ThrustMaster DirectConnect joysticks on one gameport, fully functional
2000/06/07 - Saitek Cyborg 3D support fully functional in the analog driver
2000/06/06 - Added support for Gravis Xterminator DualControl, better support for Xterminator Digital

Current version

Gravis Input Devices Driver Device

The Input Drivers are still under heavy development. Because of that, it is not convenient to makeversioned tarball or even rpm/deb releases, because for them to be useful the releases would have tobe too frequent.

Gravis Input Devices Driver Updater

We are using CVS for keeping and distriubiting the drivers right now. As soon as the driver reachsome state where they wouldn't happen to be obsoleted by new versions every few days, I'll make abigger release - 1.0.0 - of the drivers. For now, the drivers are in the same CVS tree as theLinux Console Project. This is because theydepend on each other a lot and thus it is useful to develop them together. Also, you might want totake a look at the SourceForge page ofthe Console/Input project.

Documentation

Gravis Input Devices Drivers

You can find some documentation in the linux/Documentation/input directory in the CVS tree- it's not much, but it should get you started. A lot of it will come later, when I'm finished with writing the drivers. Anyway, using and configuring the drivers is very straightforward, so Idon't think you'll have any trouble with that. Should you have any, just mail me, the e-mail addressis at the end of this page.

Gravis Input Devices Driver

Send any questions, comments, bug reports to:Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>