Hardware: steering wheel and pedals?

[Keith_Beef]

As part of the information spit out on the console (and also saved to ~/.vdrift/log.txt) you'll see a line where the joysticks that are found are listed and numbered. The numbers that are put there are the same as the IDs that are put in the controls.config file.

So that seems to be the problem...

If I plug in only the pedals, the device is detected.
If I plug in both pedals and yoke, only the yoke is detected.

It does not matter where in the USB chain the devices are connected (either to a port directly on the mainboard, or to a port on an external hub).
It does not matter in which order the devices are connected.

Examples below.

With only the pedals connected.

INFO: Starting VDrift: 2009-08-10-full, Version: , O/S: Unix-like
INFO: Home directory: /home/xxxxxx
INFO: Settings file: /home/xxxxxx/.vdrift/VDrift.config
INFO: Data directory: /usr/share/games/vdrift/data
DATA_DIR: /usr/share/games/vdrift/data
INFO: Log file: /home/xxxxxx/.vdrift/log.txt
INFO: SDL initialization successful
INFO: SDL video query was successful
INFO: Disabling antialiasing
INFO: Display change was successful: 1280x720x16 24z fullscreen=0
INFO: Video card information:
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer: GeForce 9800 GTX+/PCI/SSE2
Version: 3.0.0 NVIDIA 180.44
Maximum texture size: 8192
Using GLEW 1.5.0
INFO: Disabling shaders
INFO: Maximum anisotropy: 16
INFO: 1 joystick found:
INFO: 0. CH PRODUCTS CH PRO PEDALS USB
INFO: Loading car controls from: /home/xxxxxx/.vdrift/controls.config
INFO: Sound initialization information:
INFO: Obtained audio device:
Frequency: 44100
Format: 32784
Bits per sample: 16
Channels: 2
Silence: 0
Samples: 512
Size: 2048
Sound initialization successful
INFO: Loaded fonts successfully
INFO: Loaded GUI successfully

With only the yoke connected.

INFO: Multi-processor system detected. Run with -multithreaded argument to enable multithreading (EXPERIMENTAL).
INFO: Starting VDrift: 2009-08-10-full, Version: , O/S: Unix-like
INFO: Home directory: /home/xxxxxx
INFO: Settings file: /home/xxxxxx/.vdrift/VDrift.config
INFO: Data directory: /usr/share/games/vdrift/data
DATA_DIR: /usr/share/games/vdrift/data
INFO: Log file: /home/xxxxxx/.vdrift/log.txt
INFO: SDL initialization successful
INFO: SDL video query was successful
INFO: Disabling antialiasing
INFO: Display change was successful: 1280x720x16 24z fullscreen=0
INFO: Video card information:
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer: GeForce 9800 GTX+/PCI/SSE2
Version: 3.0.0 NVIDIA 180.44
Maximum texture size: 8192
Using GLEW 1.5.0
INFO: Disabling shaders
INFO: Maximum anisotropy: 16
INFO: 1 joystick found:
INFO: 0. CH PRODUCTS CH FLIGHT SIM YOKE USB
INFO: Loading car controls from: /home/xxxxxx/.vdrift/controls.config
INFO: Sound initialization information:
INFO: Obtained audio device:
Frequency: 44100
Format: 32784
Bits per sample: 16
Channels: 2
Silence: 0
Samples: 512
Size: 2048
Sound initialization successful
INFO: Loaded fonts successfully
INFO: Loaded GUI successfully

With both the pedals and the yoke connected.

INFO: Multi-processor system detected. Run with -multithreaded argument to enable multithreading (EXPERIMENTAL).
INFO: Starting VDrift: 2009-08-10-full, Version: , O/S: Unix-like
INFO: Home directory: /home/xxxxxx
INFO: Settings file: /home/xxxxxx/.vdrift/VDrift.config
INFO: Data directory: /usr/share/games/vdrift/data
DATA_DIR: /usr/share/games/vdrift/data
INFO: Log file: /home/xxxxxx/.vdrift/log.txt
INFO: SDL initialization successful
INFO: SDL video query was successful
INFO: Disabling antialiasing
INFO: Display change was successful: 1280x720x16 24z fullscreen=0
INFO: Video card information:
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer: GeForce 9800 GTX+/PCI/SSE2
Version: 3.0.0 NVIDIA 180.44
Maximum texture size: 8192
Using GLEW 1.5.0
INFO: Disabling shaders
INFO: Maximum anisotropy: 16
INFO: 1 joystick found:
INFO: 0. CH PRODUCTS CH FLIGHT SIM YOKE USB
INFO: Loading car controls from: /home/xxxxxx/.vdrift/controls.config
INFO: Sound initialization information:
INFO: Obtained audio device:
Frequency: 44100
Format: 32784
Bits per sample: 16
Channels: 2
Silence: 0
Samples: 512
Size: 2048
Sound initialization successful
INFO: Loaded fonts successfully
INFO: Loaded GUI successfully

But here's something interesting: if I add a Saitek joystick, this is detected, in addition to the yoke...

INFO: 2 joysticks found:
INFO: 0. Saitek Saitek Pro Flight Yoke
INFO: 1. Saitek AV8R Joystick
INFO: Loading car controls from: /home/xxxxxx/.vdrift/controls.config

Now with the Saitek yoke, Saitek AV8R joystick, and also a Logitech joystick...

INFO: 2 joysticks found:
INFO: 0. Saitek Saitek Pro Flight Yoke
INFO: 1. Saitek AV8R Joystick
INFO: Loading car controls

So, the two Saitek devices are detected but not the Logitech...

How about Saitek yoke and Logitech joystick...

INFO: 2 joysticks found:
INFO: 0. Logitech Logitech Attack 3
INFO: 1. Saitek Saitek Pro Flight Yoke

Both devices detected.

I wonder what's happening. Is this likely to be a problem in the way that SDL detects attached devices?

If I find the time, I'll do a table with all probable combinations of devices and report them in this thread.
Since there are two joysticks (Logitech and Saitek), two yokes, two power quandrants, and the pedals, so a total of seven devices would make for too many to list all possible combinations, so I'll limit it to what I am most likely to want to use and this should illustrate the problem sufficiently.


This is running on Linux, Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-15-generic.


K.