Adding Joystick to Xf86config

c0rderr0y · 03-11-2004, 09:22 PM

i've already got the drivers and can use it in others programs but:

how do u add a 2 analog joystick to the xf86config i've looked everywhere for how tos and examples but still nothing. please help

Mega Man X · 03-12-2004, 12:40 AM

Adding joysticks to XF86Config? Are you willing to use them as a mouse? Because, if you want to use them as... well... joysticks, all you gotta do is to load the proper modules

modprobe joydev

for example

. You not even need install drivers. Joystick support have been into the kernel for ages

c0rderr0y · 03-12-2004, 01:43 AM

hmm but for mame it requires that i have them added to the xf86config file for them to work... im confused....

Mega Man X · 03-12-2004, 02:25 AM

Is it an USB pad? Because all USB pads that I have works already calibrated by simply loading the module as I described above.(Mame works fine too). I could never ever get a joypad to work with Linux using the standard joystick port though... Anyway, I love USB devices

.

And it's possible to use the joystick as a mouse too

. I will try to build a media box for me and the only device plugged will be the joypad

. Very cool function

HappyTux · 03-12-2004, 03:14 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Megaman X
I could never ever get a joypad to work with Linux using the standard joystick port though.

And it's possible to use the joystick as a mouse too . I will try to build a media box for me and the only device plugged will be the joypad . Very cool function

My joystick works fine through the SB live I have never could get the gameport on the MB to work though. Don't mean to hijack the thread so do you have any details on the mouse via joystick posted on the web somewhere or is it just using it as a USB device instead of (along with) the mouse?

Mega Man X · 03-12-2004, 03:23 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by HappyTux
My joystick works fine through the SB live I have never could get the gameport on the MB to work though. Don't mean to hijack the thread so do you have any details on the mouse via joystick posted on the web somewhere or is it just using it as a USB device instead of (along with) the mouse?

It's easy. With Slackware, all you have to do is, as root, to run "mouseconfig". There you will find an option called "js", that allows you to use the joystick as a mouse. There might be similar tools for every distributions, I guess

Cheers!

c0rderr0y · 03-12-2004, 02:27 PM

hey megaman x how did u get it to work with mame? when i do

# ./xlistdev

it only shows my agp and mouse and i think my ide controller.... none of my usb game pads..... i am using a smart joy psx converter and it works with zsnes.....

Mega Man X · 03-12-2004, 03:01 PM

I don't have mame installed in this machine anymore. But I found this for you:

http://freshrpms.net/docs/xmame/

There it stands:

Quote:

USB joystick/joypad : Choose the "new i386 linux 1.x.x driver" (leave /dev/js, as it's the prefix to which 0, 1 etc. will be appended) and don't forget to check that the "joydev" module is loaded.

It's basically what I did, only loaded the correct modules

c0rderr0y · 03-12-2004, 03:19 PM

woo hoo thanks megaman x but where am i suppose to choose "new i386 linux 1.x.x driver" i know joydev is loaded.....

please check the new topic http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=156826 its about a frontend i cant get to work....

Mega Man X · 03-12-2004, 04:14 PM

mmmmmm, when I had xmame installed, you could choose the drivers through GXmame, by simply right clicking in a game name, then preferences, then joystick... I have no idea how to do it in pure command line though

. You might want to give GXmame a shot, while I try to install the front-end from your thread, since it's the best front-end I have ever seem

. Thanks for the link

shack · 03-22-2004, 06:55 AM

I'd like to know how to set up a joystick as a pointing device for X. I have a gameport gamepad/joystick device (Seitek Megapad XVI, branded Radioshack) and I wouldn't mind freeing up my mouse. Sure, slack has mouseconfig; I'm on woody.

shack · 03-23-2004, 03:12 AM

That gamepad wasn't working properly, so i took it apart. Anyone with the same model please email me with a photo of it with the back removed. I need to know how to reconnect the wires.

shack · 03-23-2004, 03:13 AM

That gamepad wasn't working properly, so i took it apart. Anyone with the same model please email me with a photo of it with the back removed. I need to know how to reconnect the wires.
Email: the_shack {at} f-m {dot} fm

Mr.Ampersand() · 04-02-2004, 10:41 PM

I'm using mandrake linux 10 and trying to get my joystick to work. I have a 15 pin port its on so I tried some of the stuff the previous posters posted above and I dont think it worked. I tried modprobe joydev. It started then terminated so I dont know what happened.

I'm trying to get it working in transgaming even though tech support told me it wont work in their game I just want to get the joystick configured anyway.

George

orbiteleven · 06-01-2004, 07:38 PM

I am also trying to get an old-style (15-Pin?) Joystick working in Mandrake 10. Any luck?