using a USB HID device with WINE?

raccoonone · Post by **raccoonone** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:51 pm

I have a flight sim (PhoenixRC) that comes with a special controller. The controller shows up as a Human Interface Device (HID) and it seems to work just fine with Ubuntu--I can do "sudo cat /dev/usb/hiddev0" and see the output change as I move the controls around. However when I start up PhoenixRC it complains that the controller isn't connected. Is there a way to use the controller with WINE, some kind of setting that I need to change or something?

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 5:57 am

raccoonone wrote:I have a flight sim (PhoenixRC) that comes with a special controller. The controller shows up as a Human Interface Device (HID) and it seems to work just fine with Ubuntu--I can do "sudo cat /dev/usb/hiddev0" and see the output change as I move the controls around. However when I start up PhoenixRC it complains that the controller isn't connected. Is there a way to use the controller with WINE, some kind of setting that I need to change or something?

No. Wine does not support USB devices yet. It can not talk to them directly. Of course things that have their own Linux driver work fine (keyboard, mouse, joystick, etc).

raccoonone · Post by **raccoonone** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:14 am

I thought HID devices used the same driver? PhoenixRC doesn't install a .sys driver, as far as I know.

Markus Hitter · Post by **Markus Hitter** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:04 pm

I'm not sure who's the original poster, but depending on your
programming experience, you might want to add a vote to <http://
bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8783>, work on this bug, or both.

Markus

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raccoonone · Post by **raccoonone** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:41 pm

Markus Hitter wrote:I'm not sure who's the original poster, but depending on your
programming experience, you might want to add a vote to <http://
bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8783>, work on this bug, or both.

Markus

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I'm a computer science major (in my 2nd year now); I've found that even though I can program fairly well I don't understand the Windows API well enough to work on a lot of the things in WINE. But I'll try to work on a patch, and learn enough.

Are you sure this is the same the bug as #8783? I tried WINEDEBUG=+comm, but it didn't give any additional output. However doing WINEDEBUG=+hid showed several calls to HidD_GetHidGuid, and looking at hid.dll it seems that essentially none of the functions have been implemented.

Markus Hitter · Post by **Markus Hitter** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:42 am

Am 19.03.2008 um 03:41 schrieb raccoonone:

Are you sure this is the same the bug as #8783?

No, I'm not sure

Markus

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