Re: Yoke and rudder pedal recommendation?

Durk Talsma <[email protected]> Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:18:14 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.games.flightgear.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

On 26 Dec 2011, at 04:04, Patrick Callahan wrote:

> I'm having great luck with the saitek yoke and quadrant.
> The pedals however are another story.
> 
> Under Ubuntu linux I get errors during boot indicating read errors
> After booting, the pedals are not recognized in flightgear.
> However if I unplug the pedals' usb cable and plug it back in, and then restart flightgear it works just fine.
> The problem persists regardless of which usb port I use.
> 


I'm having the same issue here, but found that a completely cold boot (i.e. cutting the power by using a master switch on my power cable after shut down, and turning it on just prior to booting) helps to resolve the problem. 

Cheers,
Durk
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