sping@gentoo.org Sebastian Pipping The spacenavd daemon can be used directly as a drop-in replacement to the 3DxWare daemon. It can communicate with the official magellan SDK, and thus any program compiled with it can work with spacenavd transparently without any change or need of recompilation. Also, spacenavd provides an alternative communication protocol, for programs that use libspnav, that doesn't require an X server, as the original protocol does. spacenav