[TriLUG] Belkin Nostromo SpeedPad N52

[Aaron S. Joyner]

I'm not sure about frequented by TriLUG members, but there is a server 
run by a friend of mine locally that's got oodles of bandwidth, good 
hardware, and could use some more TriLUGers descending on it.   :)  
Check out moses.mybox.org.

Aaron J.

Brian Daniels wrote:

>On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 01:33:42PM -0400, Lee wrote:
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>>Has anyone tried to get a Belkin Nostromo SpeedPad N52 (or the N50 for 
>>that matter) working under Linux. Or perhaps even heard of someone 
>>getting this to work? A google search didn't turn up anything useful. 
>>Windows sees it as a HID keyboard, if Linux sees it as the same, it may 
>>only take a keymap or something to get it working. I've been drooling 
>>over this thing for a while, but since I don't have any windows PCs at 
>>home I've been holding off on getting one.
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>I'm using a N52 at home for UT2004.  Linux (or RH9, at least) just sees it
>as a keyboard.  I can't re-program its keys, but most of the default maps
>work well with FPS games.  The others I can fix by changing the game's
>keymappings.  There is one button that I can't use because it maps to
>CapsLock which UT2004 won't let me map.  Luckily, it's not one of the
>primary controls or the D-pad.  With all those buttons, having one
>nonfunctional is no big deal.
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>The N50 is a very different beast and needs a driver.  One can be found at:
>http://www.jimbomania.com/nostromo.html
>but I have no experience with it.
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>On a side note, any particular UT2004 server being frequented by TriLug 
>players?
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>--Brian 
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