Spacenavigator in xubuntu

[Novel Criss]

The spacenavigator is not showing up - enable joystick option is greyed out in xubunutu in the Second Life client.  

The same spacenavigator is working fine in Ubuntu Lucid Lynx and Precise Pangolin (although SL client itself is REALLY slow in Pangolin).

Any clues much appreciated.

I've tried both with and without spacenavd and libspavn0 (although only both together).

It did show up my usb wireless desktop but removing that and going with wired ones meant they disappeared and the spacenavigator didn't even when moved to a main USB port.

[Baloo Uriza]

sudo modprobe joystick?  Do you have a /dev/js0 or /dev/js* anything?

[Novel Criss]

Thanks for the suggestion.

sudo modprobe joystick gives a module unkown fatal error.  joydev is there though.

No  /dev/js0 or /dev/js*  but then they aren't in either ubuntu lucid or precise installs which work.  

Lucid and Precise don't use  spacenavd and libspavn0 either.

So beyond my knowledge but I presume xubuntu and xfce are handling usb devices differently in some way.

 

[Baloo Uriza]

Well, darn, seems like you're farther along with this than I am.  Joydev...couldn't remember the right module name, but you nailed it.  I don't think you need anything fancy for it to work beyond that.  When you sudo tail -f /var/log/syslog, what output do you get when you plug in the spacenavigator?  Feel free to copypasta that here (there's a handy insert code button in the comment replies that formats that nicely).

 

[Novel Criss]

Many thanks again.

 

May  3 17:25:17 n-desktop kernel: [ 1693.008451] usb 1-1.2: new low speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8May  3 17:25:17 n-desktop kernel: [ 1693.108414] usb 1-1.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choiceMay  3 17:25:18 n-desktop kernel: [ 1693.277980] input: 3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.3/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.0/input/input7May  3 17:25:18 n-desktop kernel: [ 1693.278156] generic-usb 0003:046D:C626.0005: input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Multi-Axis Controller [3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator] on usb-0000:00:13.3-1.2/input0

 

[Baloo Uriza]

Hmm, looks right.  What happens if you do this:

sudo ln -s /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.3/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.0/input/input7 /dev/js0

...and then launch your viewer?

[Novel Criss]

It has a box for the microsoft wieless optical desktop - had that before.   Will try without that just in case.

[Novel Criss]

Nope - still just a 'no device detected' entry if i change to a wired keyboard.

[Baloo Uriza]

Even after linking the device that plugging in the spacenavigator creates to /dev/js0?

 

[Novel Criss]

Yes - no affect at all that I can see.

BTW many thanks for the suggestions, appreciated.

[Baloo Uriza]

No problem, but now I'm thoroughly stumped.  Have you tried Ubuntu's user mailing list?

[Novel Criss]

Solved by upgrading to the Xubuntu 12.04.  Not exactly elegeant but it now works.  

[Baloo Uriza]

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Novel Criss wrote:

Solved by upgrading to the Xubuntu 12.04.  Not exactly elegeant but it now works.  

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OK, that's kind of the WTF fix.  I wonder what's different in 12.04 and what you were using.