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On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 00:38:15 -0400, Roger
<Delete-Invallid.stuff.groups@tm.net> wrote:
Hi Roger,
>You can still calibrate them using the button on the joystick. It only
>needs an input signal, or acknowledgement and that can even be a key
>stroke.
If you've got a joystick/yoke behind them, that's true. If not, then
the ENTER key will advance the prompts but it doesn't cause Windows to
register the values. There is some evidence that with DX8 or DX9, the
did start picking up values based simply on the movement, not on the
click, though. In any case, the calibration is essentially useless
since they never try to pick up the center on the pedals and that's
what really matters.
Without center calibration, it just assumes that halfway between min
and max is the middle (optimists). You might force it by watching the
raw data display, figuring out which side was "short" and then not
going all the way in the other direction, e.g. if you got raw data of
left = 10, middle = 100, and right = 210, only take the right out to
190. Then you've got 10-100 left and 100-190 right. Windows will
divide the 10-190 difference, come up with a midpoint of 100 and it
will line up. The original CTFJ utility did that by just trimming the
registry values after calibration so they were symmetrical around the
center value, but I'm not sure it will play correctly with the XP
registry calibration values.
>However... Although they are supposed to be hot swapable and
>adjustable that may not be the case.
>I'm not positive of what caused what, but this is the sequence.
>When I first tried the adapter, the pedals were active right off the
>bat. Of course the computer thought they were the throttle, but that
>is just a configuration issue. I thought I'd try using them as
>joystick two and configure the two separately, but I really should
>have left them with joystick one. At any rate, switching to joystick
>to, did nothing, or rather they did nothing as joystick two. So I
>switched back to joystick one and they still did nothing.
>
>I had some other work to do so just put the problem aside the day. I
>picked up a 300 gig USB/firewire back up drive and decided it was time
>to do a full back up of the system drive.
>
>When I went to install the USB drive the software installation would
>hang just shy of finishing and it couldn't find the drive . It
>installed just fine on the system next to this one. I was now seeing
>a warning that my UPS was not connected THAT started me to thinking.
>
>The next step was to fire up the flat bed scanner. "Not found"!. So I
>tried the film scanner. "Please hook up scanner and try again".
>Joystick? No Joy (sorry, couldn't help myself).
>
>Not one USB device was working.
>So, I installed a four port USB, PCI card and a three port firewire.
>They came up immediately and the UPS was now connected.
>
>Basically the entire USB buss and controller is shot but I can still
>get by using the PCI slots, but I'd guess the mother board will get
>replaced.
>
>This is my 64 bit system with one gig of RAM too.
>
>So be careful when trying these things out.
There was a problem with the XP SP2 update wiping out the Host
Controllers that hit a lot of people. The exact cause wasn't clear,
but things that were working tended to continue working, things that
weren't installed wouldn't get picked up correctly when they were. You
might drop by the CH Hangar:
http://www.ch-hangar.com
Find the forums and look in the "Software" forum. At the top there's a
"sticky" thread titled:
Success!! CM "No Devices Found" Solved!!
which talks about how to knock down the USB stack and reinstall it. It
may or may not help, but if you're going to have to replace things
it's worth a shot.
Best regards,
- Bob
The StickWorks
http://www.stickworks.com
The StickWorks
http://www.stickworks.com
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