How to write a driver for unsupported USB joystick?

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"" wrote:
> I got an unsupported joystick, a Gravis Blackhawk ADB (Aplle
> Desktop
> Bus), connected to my PC by an iMate (ADB to USB adapter). The
> problem
> is that it's only recognized as a HID mouse
>
> how can i write a driver in C (compiling with GCC under
> cygwin) to make
> it usable as a joystick?

Probably no one here will know, i sure don’t. Have you tried
removing the driver (both physicly and though device manger) and
reinstalling and other things?

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"CFran" <Michel0528@yahoo.fr> wrote in message news:1122078478.728515.202910@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> No i dont think you understood, the joystick is not supposed to be
> recognized, i dont have any problem, it's just that this joystick is
> supposed to be only recognized as a HID mouse. now what i want, is to
> develop a driver, but i dont know how to. i thought this one group was
> the most appropriate to ask this...

No, this group is obsolete and defunct.
Try microsoft.public.development.device.drivers
may be also microsoft.public.win32.programmer.kernel
By the way, to write Windows drivers you need MS compiler and the DDK, forget GNU and Cygwin.

--PA

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use hte compiler that comes with the DDK, that is the only approved way of
creating a driver. The ddk is free, s/h is the only cost.

d

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"CFran" <Michel0528@yahoo.fr> wrote in message
news:1122186957.938847.182180@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> oh, thank you. by the way, what MS compiler do you think about? Visual
> C or something like that?
>
> Pavel A. wrote:
>> "CFran" <Michel0528@yahoo.fr> wrote in message
>> news:1122078478.728515.202910@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> > No i dont think you understood, the joystick is not supposed to be
>> > recognized, i dont have any problem, it's just that this joystick is
>> > supposed to be only recognized as a HID mouse. now what i want, is to
>> > develop a driver, but i dont know how to. i thought this one group was
>> > the most appropriate to ask this...
>>
>> No, this group is obsolete and defunct.
>> Try microsoft.public.development.device.drivers
>> may be also microsoft.public.win32.programmer.kernel
>> By the way, to write Windows drivers you need MS compiler and the DDK,
>> forget GNU and Cygwin.
>>
>> --PA
>