GPL, Gameport / USB converter problems

Hi folks,

I just installed the Rockfire R-203 gameport to usb converter on my
machine. Most sims work reasonably well, but GPL refuses to recognize
the joystick axis (I have the rockfire set to 4 axes, 4 buttons).

The control panel calibration tool looks ok, but once I click on a
control function to assign in GPL's option screen, I don't get the red
text indicating to move the axis that the control is going to be
assigned to, it just goes sits there and does nothing.

Any ideas on this one? All the best & thanks in advance,

uwe



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"Uwe Schürkamp" > wrote in message
...
> Hi folks,
>
> I just installed the Rockfire R-203 gameport to usb converter on my
> machine. Most sims work reasonably well, but GPL refuses to recognize
> the joystick axis (I have the rockfire set to 4 axes, 4 buttons).
>
> The control panel calibration tool looks ok, but once I click on a
> control function to assign in GPL's option screen, I don't get the red
> text indicating to move the axis that the control is going to be
> assigned to, it just goes sits there and does nothing.
>
> Any ideas on this one? All the best & thanks in advance,

Try installing gplshift (not the alshift util). I believe the standard gpl
only recognises the first & last controller & may be restricted to 3 axis
per controller. The gplshift util /may/ allow you to get around that.

Malc.

Ive gotten GPL to work with a rockfire adapter before. Just asking a stupid
question: When you calibrate the controller inside of GPL which I assume you
also are doing, does it calibrate properly there as well? My GPL calibration
screen splits the controller into two different screens. One for one axis,
and then you click an arrow in the bottom right corner and it lets you
calibrate axis two. Do you see the same thing and does it calibrate
correctly there?

"Uwe Schürkamp" > wrote in message
...
> Hi folks,
>
> I just installed the Rockfire R-203 gameport to usb converter on my
> machine. Most sims work reasonably well, but GPL refuses to recognize
> the joystick axis (I have the rockfire set to 4 axes, 4 buttons).
>
> The control panel calibration tool looks ok, but once I click on a
> control function to assign in GPL's option screen, I don't get the red
> text indicating to move the axis that the control is going to be
> assigned to, it just goes sits there and does nothing.
>
> Any ideas on this one? All the best & thanks in advance,
>
> uwe
>
>
>
> --
> Uwe Schuerkamp //////////////////////////// http://www.schuerkamp.de/
> Herford, Germany \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ (52.0N/8.5E)
> GPG Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61

Hi Malc,

thanks for your answer. I tracked down the problem to having to run
gem2+ again, somehow it "updated" my ini files so that I could assign
controllers again as usual. Somehow, this didn't work when I started
gpl via the desktop icon; I had to do it through gem2+.

All the best,

uwe


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"Uwe Schürkamp" > wrote in message
...
> Hi Malc,
>
> thanks for your answer. I tracked down the problem to having to run
> gem2+ again, somehow it "updated" my ini files so that I could assign
> controllers again as usual. Somehow, this didn't work when I started
> gpl via the desktop icon; I had to do it through gem2+.

Odd, but at least you got it sorted ;-)

Malc.