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Prior to this change, the mouse speed was controlled by an opaque numeric value, that controlled both the speed and the delay between updates. This caused a lot of choppy behavior with lower speeds, and the really low speeds had as little as 1% speed difference between them in the practical pixels/second speed, while there was effectively a 50% jump in the speed between speed settings 11 and 12, due to the hyperbolic relationship between steps. Post that, it was an even 25% increase in sensitivity for every step. This change modifies it so that the old Speed option is deprecated, it is now replaced by the Sensitivity option, which is a direct percentage scale from 10% to 500%. In addition, there is a CurveFactor option to let it have fine control when there is little deflection, and move faster when further away from the center. This also adds an IsometricMode option which computes the speed as a function of the cartesian distance from the center (`sqrt(dx^2 + dy^2)`). The default behavior uses the existing linear speed which controls the speed of the X and Y axes independently, but now uses the sensitivity and curve factors to get better behavior. Also, the mouse events are consistently reported every 10ms. This should make it a lot smoother. Finally, this change also adds a Deadzone factor, which allows the user to ignore small changes near the center of the joystick that can cause mouse drift. This deadzone uses the total distance, so if just the X or Y axis has moved, it will still allow suppressing any play in the thumb stick. Issue: #44 |
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README.md
Saitek X52Pro joystick driver for Linux
This project adds a new driver for the Saitek/MadCatz X52 Pro flight control system. The X52 pro is a HOTAS (hand on throttle and stick) with 7 axes, 39 buttons, 1 hat and 1 thumbstick and a multi-function display which is programmable.
Currently, only Windows drivers are available from Saitek PLC, which led me to develop a new Linux driver which can program the MFD and the individual LEDs on the joystick. The standard usbhid driver is capable of reading the joystick, but it cannot control the MFD or LEDs.
Most of the extra functionality can be handled from userspace. See the individual folders for README information.
For data handling and privacy (e.g. GDPR/CCPA), see PRIVACY.md.
Note: This repository currently only provides commandline interfaces to control the MFD and LEDs. If you are not comfortable working in the commandline, then the gx52 project might be a better fit for your needs as it provides a graphical interface to control the MFD and LEDs.
Installing released versions
Beginning from version v0.2.3, prebuilt packages are available on Ubuntu PPA and the Arch User Repository.
Ubuntu
This project has been released as a PPA on Ubuntu. To install the package, run the following commands in the terminal.
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:nirenjan/libx52
sudo apt update
sudo apt install libx52-1
Arch Linux
This is available on the AUR
Building and installing from source
See INSTALL.md