I had a few problems when I installed my joystick sometime ago... here is what I
did and a link to a webpage with a good doc about it. How as I can remember, the
last step (5-insmod analog) is where you define your joystick type. "analog" is
a basic joystick, now I'm using "gravis" or "grip", I can't remeber, as my
joystick is a gravis xterminator.
HTH
orlando
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Good info! Thanks.
Once I get through messing with my kernels (playing with LVM/JFS/XFS at
the moment, so I'm a little bit unstable), maybe I'll get my joystick
going. heh heh.. Then I just need a use for it. I don't have any games
on Linux that would use it, only the cheap stuff that Mandrake includes.
Ric
Jose Orlando T. Ribeiro wrote:
> Ric,
>
> that is the message I told you...
>
> To work I had to change the modules load order to:
>
> 1-insmod gameport
> 2-insmod ns558
> 3-insmod input
> 4-insmod joydev
> 5-insmod analog
>
> I don't know if it's a LM8 issue or an error at the page at wanadoo.nl
>
> orlando
>
>
>
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>
> Subject:
>
> Re: joystick driver under Mandrake Linux 8.0
> From:
>
> Erik Hovland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date:
>
> Wed, 6 Jun 2001 11:56:27 -0700
> To:
>
> "Jose Orlando T. Ribeiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 02:31:17PM -0300, Jose Orlando T. Ribeiro wrote:
>
>>Erik,
>>
>>
>>>To verify look in /lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/drivers/char/joystick.
>>>
>>I'll verify later, at home, but I remember that in that directory I had
>>all modules (grip.o, analog.o, sidewinder.o)... but NOT a joystick.o
>>anywhere in the system ( I did a "cd / | find | grep joystick trying to
>>find that module)
>>
>
> That is because the whole kit and kabootle has been superceded by the 'input'
> driver, see this page:
> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~vojtech/input/
>
> And this page:
> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~vojtech/input/joystick.html
>
> Hopefully you have already spent significant time here:
> http://home.wanadoo.nl/whatdoya/sblive/index4.html
>
> Which has this quickfix:
>
> | Adding Joystick Support:
> | For 2.4 kernels only
> | ----------------
> | 1. Enable the PCI port:
> |
> | insmod ns558
> |
> | 2. Load Input Modules (may not need if compiled
> | into kernel):
> |
> | insmod input
> |
> | insmod joydev
> |
> | 3. Load Joystick drivers:
> |
> | insmod gameport
> |
> | insmod analog (or whatever your driver is called)
> |
> | 4. Fix your Joystick device:
> |
> | mv /dev/js0 /dev/js0.bak
> |
> | ln -s /dev/input/js0 /dev/js0
>
> The ns558, input, joydev, gameport and specific joystick driver modules are
> already in the default mandrake 8.0 install so all should be ready WITHOUT
> having to recompile the kernel or install a new kernel. There are some fixes
> for the input driver and the joystick drivers in the current -ac series of
> kernel patches but they should be irrelevant to your situation.
>
> Good Luck!
>
> E
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