So, I finally got a Logitech G13 a couple days ago. I went to http://www.nexoid.at/g13/ to get the driver, but the site was down. I hoped it would be back up shortly, but it's still down today. So I'm wondering if anybody has an archived copy of the driver source that they could post? I'd really like to get this puppy working as more than a glowing paperweight.

EDIT: Hmm, now it redirects to a German "page not found" page. Maybe it's on its way back up.

I would be happy to send you the driver I have but its the older one...
Check the repositories - they were close to getting it included

I am at Ymail.com

Thanks, I'll take you up on that if nobody offers a more recent version in the next couple days. Last night though I finally got around to resuming playing Oblivion after not playing for a good half a year, so it will be a couple days before I feel much like playing VO again. (I didn't get Oblivion until last Christmas and didn't get very far before I got too busy to play.)

I found this link in the Arch package database thingy.. http://eutyche.swe.uni-linz.ac.at/g13/g13.tar.bz2
http://eutyche.swe.uni-linz.ac.at/g13/ redirects to nexoid so this is probably the old official site.
The timestamps in there say it's from jan 09. So I don't know if it's newer than pakettles.

Not likely since the one I have is the original release and has to be compiled and manually installed.

I meant to post a copy of this with the modifications i made to enable the analog joystick, but never got around to it. I'll try to do that tonight.

Thought i was gonna forget huh? :P

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1009026/g13-userspace.tar.gz

This is the one i modified. I've got the original src around someplace if anyone needs it.

Thanks. Looks like the site finally came back online today as well, so now I have both your modified one and the original. I'll play with it later tonight or maybe tomorrow.

Awesome, it works. It kept exiting at random shortly after starting at first, with error code -9 for libusb, which is for a pipe error. I haven't gotten around to tracking down what's actually going wrong yet, but I adjusted the error detection to ignore that particular error code, and it seems to work. I do intend to try to track down the actual problem sometime, of course, but I'm not going to worry too much about it right now.

Yeah It's still pretty darn alpha-quality, but it does work. One of the problems I had with it was that it would "miss" keystrokes occasionally after it and VO had been running for a couple hours. I wasn't able to figure out exactly what the problem there was either...

Have fun!

Following up on this. It looks like the developer of this driver posted some updates and created a repo on GitHub!: https://github.com/ecraven/g13

Cool. I wound up giving my G13 to my brother though. The increased button count on the G13 was nice, but I liked the feel of my n52 more, and in practice I had little use for analog strafing.

I made a couple extra modifications to ecraven's g13 driver here:
https://github.com/AbortRetryFail/g13

In keeping up on this subject, I've stumbled across another project that's got a fancy GUI:
http://code.google.com/p/linux-g13-driver/
Don't know how well this works, but I figured this info may be useful to someone else.