Saitek P880 USB Gamepad Stopped Working in Mandrake 10.1 Community

Hey guys,

Been having an issue lately with the above mentioned Gamepad when I first installed the OS, it worked like a peach, no mucking around involved. Loaded up ZSNES and was busting some alien rear on Contra III.

Few days later, I decide to install GTuxNES and GENS...neither of them will accept input from the
gamepad. No problem, I still have ZSNES...or do I? Loaded it up, and found that my gamepad will not work there either.

Everything seems to work properly. For reference, I'm using kernel 2.6.8.1-10mdk. Here's some output:

lsusb:
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 007: ID 06a3:0109 Saitek PLC
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

dmesg:
usb 3-2: new low speed USB device using address 7
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: ctrl urb status -32 received
input: USB HID v1.00 Joystick [SAITEK P880] on usb-0000:00:10.2-2

When I run jscal -c /dev/js, here's the final output:
Setting correction to:
Correction for axis 0: broken line, precision: 0.
Coeficients: 128, 128, 4194176, 4227201
Correction for axis 1: broken line, precision: 0.
Coeficients: 128, 128, 4194176, 4227201
Correction for axis 2: broken line, precision: 0.
Coeficients: 125, 128, 4329472, 4227201
Correction for axis 3: broken line, precision: 0.
Coeficients: 128, 128, 4436814, 4227201
Correction for axis 4: broken line, precision: 0.
Coeficients: 0, 0, 536854528, 536854528
Correction for axis 5: broken line, precision: 0.
Coeficients: 0, 0, 536854528, 536854528

jstest returns output as well whenever I press a button.

Tried running
modprobe joydev
modprobe emu10k1-gp
modprobe analog

But it doesn't help. From what I can tell, this joystick should be working, and it was. That's what's utterly frustrating about this. A Google search and searcing on the forums hasn't really led me anywhere. :/

Thanks,
Phil

Just a note, the game pad DOES work. I tested it in both Windows XP and in MEPIS Linux, and they had no problems, so the issue appears to be with something in the Mandrake partition.

Phil

Okay, an update to the issue, in case anyone comes across this...tested my USB camera in Linux, it works fine. Also, here's a little more output

lsusb with camera and gamepad plugged in...
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0595:1001 Zoran Microelectronics, Ltd
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 06a3:0109 Saitek PLC
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Also, here's the output of lsmod | grep usb

usb-storage 65504 1
scsi_mod 104044 2 sd_mod,usb-storage
usblp 10592 0
usbserial 25384 0
usbhid 41088 0
usbcore 103172 8 usb-storage,usblp,usbserial,usbhid,ehci-hcd,uhci-hcd

Hope someone can help here. :/

Phil

#dmesg input: USB HID v1.00 Joystick [SAITEK P880] on usb1:2.0

my joypad is there ...

# lsusb Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 06a3:0109 Saitek PLC

my P880 is here...

#modprobe joydev

THis does not return any message

# modprobe emu10k1-gp /lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/emu10k1-gp.o.gz: init_module: No such device /lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/emu10k1-gp.o.gz: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg /lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/emu10k1-gp.o.gz: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/emu10k1-gp.o.gz failed /lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/emu10k1-gp.o.gz: insmod emu10k1-gp failed

I don't have this one lol...

#modprobe analog

THis does not return any message

#jscalibrator

this is working correctly...

I really do not understand, maybe this is a non-available feature on zsnes (I can use my P880 on win millenium with zsnes...)