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    Nostromos N52 Game Pad

    Hey Gang,

    Just curious if anyone has successfully got this device to work in breezy... by default the system see's it as another usb keyboard, however the power of the N52 is in being able to map the n52 outside of any given game (thus you need the special drivers). I have followed generic tutorials on the sourceforge project page, as well as a how-to for Hoary, neither proved fruitful. Perhaps I missed something obvious. Anyone conquer this?



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    Re: Nostromos N52 Game Pad

    bump - No one has one of these magnificent peices of gaming hardware?
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    Re: Nostromos N52 Game Pad

    No, actually I found a more aggreeable piece of equipment Cydizen.

    http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/7a67/

    I had a Nostromo for a while, got it to meanily work , but wasnt pleased with it.

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    Re: Nostromos N52 Game Pad

    I have a Nostromo (which i haven't tried under Linux yet) but man alive, that KB is awesome! I didn't like the looks of it at first but it grows on you quick once you see the key layouts. The design of it reminds me of the Enterprise's bridge for some reason.

    there - this will be my official geeky post for the evening.

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    Re: Nostromos N52 Game Pad

    I have the n52 nostomos and really like it. Worked with ubuntu out of the box. Gives great erogonomic wrist support and all the buttons are exactly within comfortable reach. The only thing is they only make it for the right handed people. Go get it, you won't regret it.
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    Re: Nostromos N52 Game Pad

    That Wolf Claw Keyboard is awesome, but I already have an n52. Yes, the n52 works out of the box with breezy, but the system is only treating it as a another keyboard. Within windows it's software allows you to remap any type of function / macro to the n52 keys. Take the scroll wheel for example, if you use it currently, the system thinks you are just scrolling the mouse wheel, but with the drivers and mapping, that can be set as another completely separate function. I am going to hack at the n52 sourceforge drivers and try to get this to work under breezy. Once (if) I can get this to work, I will post a how-to in here.


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    Thumbs up Re: Nostromo N52 Game Pad

    UPDATE: 07-19-2010

    Check a later post in this forum for a pystromo config:

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...7&postcount=64

    Update: 10-06-08: looks like it may be easier to try https://launchpad.net/pystromo, particularly for the newer model n52te's or whatever they are.

    Thanks Raumkraut!
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    I have an N52 myself, and it is now working fine under 32 bit breezy.

    You can get the drivers/config program from here:
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/nostromodriver/

    the file you need is:
    nostromo_n50-1.2.tar.gz

    untar it to the directory of choice, then cd into that dir
    do
    Code:
    sudo ./configure
    sudo make
    sudo make install
    i'm sure you need various development packages for this, i have a bunch installed, and am not sure which ones it relies on, if someone could try this off a fresh install that would be great.

    then do the following:

    Code:
    sudo chmod 666 /dev/input/event*
    nostromo_daemon
    nostromo_config
    and that should do it. now, the problem with this is that you will have to chmod /dev/input/event* everytime you boot, and also run nostromo_daemon. i solved this the quick and dirty way.
    in your home directory, or wherever you like, do

    Code:
    gedit nostromostart
    then put the following text in:

    Code:
    gksudo 'chmod 666 /dev/input/event1'
    gksudo 'chmod 666 /dev/input/event2'
    gksudo 'chmod 666 /dev/input/event3'
    gksudo 'chmod 666 /dev/input/event4'
    gksudo 'chmod 666 /dev/input/event5'
    gksudo 'chmod 666 /dev/input/event6'
    nostromo_daemon
    if anyone has a better way to script that(it will prompt for password on login) please post, and i'll edit this.

    save and close the file and make sure to do a:

    Code:
    chmod 777 nostromostart
    or at least give it enough permissions to be read and executed by you(i'm just lazy and 777 is easy to remember).

    Then simply go to System --> Preferences --> Sessions, click on startup programs, and add the location of your script, for example:

    Code:
    /home/username/./nostromostart
    you need the ./ in front of your script so it will run.

    That should be it, this worked for me, although I did a lot of tinkering and following various other guides on the web, so I may have left out packages you need, or anything else for that matter. Give it a try and let me know.
    Last edited by gentoo42; July 19th, 2010 at 09:32 PM.

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    Re: Nostromo N52 Game Pad

    I've got one of these things too. Unfortunately, I'm on a x64 platform. No drivers for me. The default isn't so bad, though- I wish one of the keys wasn't set as capslock, but other than that it works great. Still can frag to my heart's content in america's army.

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    Re: Nostromos N52 Game Pad

    Hey Gentoo42,

    Thanks for the reply... Here is the error I am getting when running sudo make..

    /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXtst
    collect2: ld returned 1 exit status


    Any thoughts on this?


    Thanks for your time,
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    Re: Nostromos N52 Game Pad

    I did a little checking on that, and it appears to be something with the LDFLAGS variable, heres a link with someone having a similar issue:

    http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=259063

    however, i wonder if it could be as simple as a missing package, do you have your kernel sources installed?
    how about all the libc packages that are related?

    for the kernel sources (if memory serves) just do:

    Code:
    sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`
    also, i in following some other guides i installed the following packages that were listed on synaps guide:

    http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthre...light=nostromo
    Code:
    sudo apt-get install automake1.6
    sudo apt-get install texinfo
    sudo apt-get install libfltk1.1-dev
    sudo apt-get install libgtk+2.0-directfb-udeb-dev
    sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
    sudo apt-get install fluid
    sudo apt-get install libxtst-dev
    his guide is not by any means new, but he does mention that he had trouble making with anything other than automake 1.6 specifically.

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