On Monday 18 Jul 2005 20:42, Mats Rauhala wrote:
> All I loaded as a module was the "soundcard". Otherwise all were
> loaded into the kernel. localhost masse # lspci -v | grep -i audio
> 0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50), so I assume I don't
> have that chipset. However I have now loaded the module 'modprobe
> snd_via82xx", and it gives the same error as I told in my first post.

>Having looked at the driver code, I'm suspecting bad hardware somewhere...

>If your joystick was identified correctly, your drivers are all OK (although 
>as I said previously, don't pass any joystick-related options to 
>snd_via82xx).

>Your main error is returned because the sidewinder driver is getting too many 
>consecutive bad packets and has had to re-initialize too many times.  You 
>could adjust that limit easily, but I doubt it would really help if the error 
>is always thrown quickly.

>Have you checked the obvious (good physical connections / cable integrity 
>etc)?  Can you find another stick (pref. an bog standard analogue one) to 
>plug in and check your gameport is functioning as it should?

>I've always found jscal and jstest to be the most useful and effective 
>calibration and testing programs.

I rebooted to windows and the stick works fine. So it shouldn't be a
problem on joystick-side. Unless windows somehow ignores some errors,
while these drivers want's to correct the errors. Only thinking aloud

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