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  1. #1
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    Nostromo n52

    When I have a little more time I will make this thread into a How To. From a fresh install of ubuntu these are the steps I had to follow to compile and install the Nostromo n52 drivers.

    Note that I still havent figure out how to set the permissions on the files listed in the 3rd post.


    Code:
    sudo apt-get install cvs
    cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/nostromodriver login
    cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/nostromodriver co -P nostromo_driver
    cd nostromo_driver
    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
    sudo ./configure
    sudo make
    sudo make install
    Last edited by synap; August 9th, 2005 at 04:22 AM.

  2. #2
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    Re: Nostromo n52

    The reasoning behind trying to get this to register as a gamepad was that the n50 already dose, which allowed for qjoypad to register and configure it easily enough.

    With some research I found that a driver has been in the works:
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/nostromodriver

    Downloading the CSV
    Code:
    cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/nostromodriver login
    press enter at password prompt
    Code:
    cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/nostromodriver co -P nostromo_driver
    Change to the nostromo_driver directory.
    Code:
    cd nostromo_driver
    Some things to note:
    Apparently this can only be compiled with automake1.6
    Code:
    sudo apt-get automake1.6
    Make sure that only automake1.6 is in use (I think 1.4 is default install because I don't recall installing it myself).
    Code:
    sudo apt-get remove automake1.4
    You also need makeinfo which apparently is part of the texinfo package.
    Code:
    sudo apt-get install texinfo
    Code:
    sudo ./configure
    Code:
    sudo make
    Code:
    sudo make install
    Hopefully everything comes back without any error messages.

    The daemon will be ran as the normal user so you need to make sure you have write access to /dev/input/event*.
    Code:
    sudo chmod 666 /dev/input/event*
    -dose this cause security concerns?
    Run the daemon
    Code:
    nostromo_daemon
    and the configure
    Code:
    nostromo_config
    That should be it.

    There were some additional packages I needed to install when I ran the ./configure. I didn't write them down but it was easy enough to synaptic them.

    Hope this helps anyone else looking to getting their nostromo n52 working (drivers also support n50)
    Last edited by synap; August 1st, 2005 at 10:23 PM.

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    Re: Nostromo n52

    Is there a way to change the permissions permanently on these files?
    /dev/input/event*

    After each reboot it reset back to 600.

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