[hid] just relays the data that the OS gets, so it sounds like your
cheap gamepads are a bit too cheap. I've seen exactly that in some
gamepads and joysticks. The quality of HID devices can vary wildly.
I've had good luck with Saitek joysticks and Logitech mice. Logitech
joysticks are just ok.

.hc

On Mar 9, 2010, at 11:03 AM, Pierre Massat wrote:

Hi all!

I was wondering if anybody could provide me with some feedback about
any experience with a gamepad and [hid]. I use a DIY stompbox i made
from a (very) cheap analog gamepad, and i am experiencing some
trouble with the data i get from the analog potentiometers (i put
one of them in an expression pedal). Basically, 3 pots out of 4
don't cover the entire theoretical range (0 to 256) and can only
provide an input up to about 150. The last pot does cover the whole
range, but in a non-linear fashion. So i was thinking of making
another stompbox with a better quality gamepad, but i want to make
sure the problem comes from the cheap gamepad i used and not from
[hid] itself. By the way i use Pd-extended on Fedora 12 with the
Planet CCRMA rt-kernel.

Best,

Pierre

PS : it goes without saying that i did check the value of the pots
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