Game port joystick support in FC2

MarkhamNR · 12-23-2004, 11:13 AM

I'm wondering if someone can help me get my joystick (well, gamepad, actually) working with Fedora Core 2 (kernel 2.6.9-1.6_FC2). I have a generic gamepad plugged into the game port on my sound card, and I see the devices /dev/js0, /dev/js1, /dev/js2 and /dev/js3. However, running "jstest /dev/js0" produces the output "jstest: No such device".

The relevant lines from lspci:

Code:

02:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
02:0a.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 07)

Some lines from lsmod that might be relevant:

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by
joydev                  8705  0
emu10k1_gp              3777  0
gameport                5057  1 emu10k1_gp

Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks.

semlak · 01-25-2005, 11:08 AM

I'm having the same problem. If anyone understands what is going on here, I'd also appreciate the help.

semlak · 01-29-2005, 08:24 PM

Well, I got mine working.

Just so people know what I'm working with, I'm using FC2, and wanted to get my old (circa 1993) Gravis PC Gamepad to work. It has four buttons and a directional pad-thingie, and it plugs into the gameport on the soundcard.

One thing I discovered from other webpages (http://www.freelink.cx/joystick.html) is that in addition to having the module gameport and joydev loaded, you need a more specific module for your specific type of joystick.

I don't know if this is correct, but for mine, It seems that I'm supposed to load two modules (you can find the available modules in /lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521smp/kernel/drivers/input/joystick (2.6.8-1.521smp is my kernel).

The two modules I loaded are ns558 and analog

insmod analog
insmod ns558

then, you need to recreate an input node (I don't know what they're called)

rm /dev/input/js0 /dev/js0
mknod input/js0 c 13 0
ln -s /dev/input/js0 /dev/js0

after this, my gamepad worked.