Strange Joystick (lack of) behavior

JaseP · 10-06-2004, 02:53 PM

I have an issue with a Gravis Xterminator gamepad which is plugged into the gameport of my SoundBlaster Live 5.1 (so not the USB version of the Xterminator),...

The joystick/gamepad/whateveryouwanttocallit is recognized by jscalibrator (no matter which account) and is also picked up by WineX/Cedega (which I run in a different user account). So there is no hardware problem, and the device actually works in some instances (winex and the calibration program), so there MUST be a /dev entry for it. It won't however, be picked up by any games running in the user account (Quake3, UT04, UT03, etc.). The install is SuSE 9.1 Pro which I did as an upgrade from SuSE 8.2 Pro.

Is there some setting from the old user account data which might be pointing the games away from the device??? Is there a group/permissions problem keeping it from being picked up???

I really don't know where to start to fix this problem. Help is appreciated.

JaseP · 10-07-2004, 12:49 PM

I know it's not quite 24 hrs yet, but I won't be in then,... so...

BUMP.

Seriously,... Nobody knows what it might be???

Mr Marmmalade · 10-12-2004, 03:35 PM

to get my analogue joystick to work all i have to do is plug it in, edit /etc/rc.d/rc.modules and uncomment the following lines (or just create th efollowing lines):

/sbin/modprobe joydev
/sbin/modprobe emu10k1-gp
/sbin/modprobe analog

and reboot, or just make the change and then do it manaually for the first time by typing the same things at the command prompt (as root probably).

this is for slackware10, i dont know about suse9.1 (i tried to install it but it just wouldnt work

), but it may be similar. if you cant find the file i mentioned look for something very similar, the whole rc.modules file on my system is just a huge list of modules with descritions that you uncomment to load during bootup.

hope that helps.

PS: what on earth was that 2nd post about?

JaseP · 10-13-2004, 02:04 PM

Thanks, seems simple enough,...

I'll give it a try...

Even though Slack is not an RPM based distro, modprobing should work.

One of them,... my guess is emu10k-gp, is probably causing the problem...

What's strange is that Wine is picking up the Joystick, as is jscalibrator, but the actual games aren't...

Maybe both wine and jscalibrator look directly to the hardware in /dev???

What's strange is I don't get this problem on my laptop with a simple USB digital gamepad.