Hi everyone,
I ended up getting the Thrustmaster TPR Pendular pedals. Fantastic. I love them. On another level to CH Products Pro pedals. Expensive, but if you have the money and want the improvement, I don't hesitate to recommend
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I seem to remember them working fine out of the box, but any attempt to use the procedure in the last post to remove the dead spot etc caused issues, but it was easily remedied by manually editing the file /var/lib/joystick/joystick.state (this is where the calibration is saved and reapplied when you restart etc).
joystick.state then contained the following for the pedals:
NAME="Thrustmaster T-Pendular-Rudder"
VENDOR="044f"
PRODUCT="b68f"
jscal -u 3,0,1,2,0
jscal -s 3,1,65535,32767,32767,-16500,-16500,1,65535,32767,32767,-16500,-16500,1,65535,32767,32767,16500,16500
I'm not an expert and the above might not be optimal, but for anyone stuck with jstest / cal throwing a spac, the above might help.
Also for anyone interested and finds this via searching, I also got a Fulcrum One yoke. The improvement over CH Products Yoke was massive / on another level. I loved the CH products yoke and pedals, and I had endless fun using Flightgear with them, but the Fulcrum Yoke and TPR Pedals take you to a much higher level of simulation / control. It comes down to money, what you can afford and how much you value flight sim.... I held off for ages making the upgrades but wished I done it earlier! For completeness the equivalent to the lines above for the Fulcrum Yoke I am using are as follows but I have a feeling the jstest / cal gui was better behaved with the Fulcrum:
NAME="Vitaly [mega_mozg] Naidentsev Fulcrum One Yoke"
VENDOR="0000"
PRODUCT="0000"
jscal -u 4,0,1,16,17,8,288,289,290,291,292,293,294,295
jscal -s 4,1,0,2000,2000,270455,258475,1,0,2100,2100,256377,269911,1,0,0,0,536854528,536854528,1,0,0,0,536854528,536854528
Thanks