USB support for wine, status?

[Marcus Meissner]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 02:06:20PM +0200, Kai Blin wrote:
> * Marcus Meissner <meissner at suse.de> [04/10/05, 13:16:37]:
> > On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 12:22:08PM +0200, Kai Blin wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > > 
> > > While trying to get one of my games to run, I realized that wine is
> > > still missing USB support (see bug 1393). Following the discussion in
> > > the archive, it seems like noone is working on this right now. Am I
> > > correct in that assumption?
> > 
> > What USB support does your game need?
> 
> Joystick support. It's a Logitech ADI joystick.

This should be done via the input device layer of Linux and then
dinput already? 

Or does it have a special windows driver?

> > The bug is WONTFIX. It needs a Linux driver and we should interface
> > Wine to it (in the scanner case via TWAIN and SANE).
>  
> So this should be handled on case by case basis then?

Yes.

Ciao, Marcus