`Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback 2 Joystick' (and likes?) support

[SDLBugzilla]

This bug report was migrated from our old Bugzilla tracker.

Reported in version: 1.2.9
Reported for operating system, platform: FreeBSD, x86

Comments on the original bug report:

On 2006-08-10 15:22:24 +0000, Dmitry Marakasov wrote:

I've just succeeded in making SDL recognise my USB joystick.
The problem is that this joystick doesn't use report id 0. For INPUT type reports (usual axes/buttons values from joystick to host) it uses report id 1 instead. As SDL has report id 0 hardcoded (src/joystick/bsd/SDL_sysjoystick.c:283), it won't recognise the device at all.
I am not sure of clean solution of this problem
We may iterate report id's and pick the first one with input descriptor size > 0, or we may first parse report descriptor to find report that has, for example, axe values in it.
Feel free to contact me for any additional details.

On 2006-09-12 10:03:03 +0000, Dmitry Marakasov wrote:

Erm, further investigation results: it's not fixed with just report ID change. This joystick is absolutely braindead and it's report desc is absolutely broken.

I think changes suggested won't be useful at all.