VEC foot pedal works under Linux ver...doesn't under Wine

[richardgiroux]

I have the USB VEC foot pedal working with the Linux version of Express Scribe but I can't get it working with the Wine version...I need to play DSS files so I think I'm stuck using the wine version.

 

My Linux is OpenSuse 10.2.

 

Any Ideas?

[jasongray]

How did you get the foot pedals to be recognized on the Linux Scribe? I'm stuck there at the moment. Sorry not much help for you. There are a lot of reported problems with ES working on Linux, especially recognizing foot pedal issues.

[richardgiroux]

How did you get the foot pedals to be recognized on the Linux Scribe? I'm stuck there at the moment. Sorry not much help for you. There are a lot of reported problems with ES working on Linux, especially recognizing foot pedal issues.

 

 

See this: http://www.enricozini.org/2007/tips/linux-...foot-pedal.html

 

You can use the serial foot pedal with a usb to serial adapter. I've been using ES on Linux (under Wine) for over three years with serial VEC foot pedals (and ones that I've re-wired myself) without problems.

[jasongray]

Thanks for the help. But I'm using a gameport steering wheel foot pedals (which don't seem to have Linux drivers) or alternately I can rig up a USB Logitech dual action gamepad. On Windows I have to configure the foot pedals as a game controller but Linux doesn't even seem to recognize that they exist. The controller works fine in Ubuntu but again ES doesn't show it at all. Perhaps if I do the whole thing through Wine it would work...