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authorSascha Hlusiak <saschahlusiak@arcor.de>2007-04-11 10:03:23 -0400
committerSascha Hlusiak <saschahlusiak@arcor.de>2007-04-11 10:03:23 -0400
commitfa32161bc5b63baa22b78f25ec6daa4f8e53aa7a (patch)
treeb782c679556499f13f56736cb7806837859223ee /man/joystick.man
parentf7f63037fd01433c325b4bb45e76d8a21dd327c0 (diff)
Replaced xf86CheckXXXOption with xf86SetXXXOption, Fixed possible NULL pointer dereference
Fixed possible NULL pointer dereference in xf86DeleteInput, reformatted code in bsd_jstk.c
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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ joystick \- Joystick input driver
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B joystick
-is an __xservername__ input driver for Linux\'s joystick devices.
+is an __xservername__ input driver for Joysticks, using either Linux\'s joystick devices or *BSD\'s uhid devices.
.SH SUPPORTED HARDWARE
In general, every by the kernel supported joystick should be supported through the
@@ -33,9 +33,13 @@ The following Driver
are supported:
.TP 7
.BI "Option \*qDevice\*q \*q" string \*q
-Specifies the device through which the joystick can be accessed.
-The first joystick is mostly accessible under "/dev/input/js0".
-This option is mandatory, and there is no default setting.
+Specifies the device through which the joystick can be accessed. This option is mandatory and there is no default setting.
+
+For Linux, joysticks are mostly accessible as
+.IR /dev/input/jsX .
+
+For *BSD, joysticks are recognized as
+.IR /dev/uhidX .
.TP 7
.BI "Option \*qDebugLevel\*q \*q" integer \*q
If compiled with debugging information, controls the verbosity of the driver.