New Saitek panels

Today I’ve been to FSWeekend with a friend. It was nice to see what other people have built and which products will be released in the near future, like the Honeycomb Throttle Quadrant.

As I fly a 747 most of the time, I checked with CPFlight whether they still sell the 747 products. They don’t, due to lack of customers…

I anticipated that a bit by checking out the Saitek Multi panel. So, today I bought a Saitek Multi panel and a Saitek Radio panel. Since I run Linux, I had to copy the following in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-saitekmultipanel.conf:

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "Saitek"
    MatchProduct "Saitek Pro Flight Multi Panel"
    Option "ButtonMapping" "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0"
EndSection

I noticed I hadn’t copied 51-Xsaitekpanels.rules in the right location as well (/lib/udev/rules.d), so I fixed that as well. The Saitek Switch panel can also interfere with the mouse, so I already created a file /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-saitekswitchpanel.conf with these contents:

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Saitek"
MatchProduct "HOLTEK Saitek Pro Flight Switch Panel"
Option "ButtonMapping" "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0"
EndSection