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.
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
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
and the configure
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)
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