Joystick doesn't work inside 32-bit chroot

Zoombie · 05-10-2006, 02:44 PM

I just upgraded my computer to a 64-bit AMD processor, and I installed the AMD64 version of Debian. Most packages are available in 64-bit flavor, but a few (like zsnes) had to be installed in a 32-bit chroot.

I successfully setup the 32-bit chroot, and I can run zsnes inside of it fine, except that joysticks won't work. Outside of the chroot, I have a device (/dev/input/js0) which works fine, but inside, no such device exists. How can I get the joystick to work?

I installed using the beta Debian installer for Etch. I'm using Xorg 6.9.0, and the joystick is a simple USB device which worked fine in zsnes when I was running 32-bit.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

ioerror · 05-10-2006, 04:59 PM

You just need the device node available in your chroot environment.

Code:

cd /top/of/chroot
mkdir -p dev/input
cp -a /dev/input/js0 dev/input

or if you want the whole of /dev

Code:

cd /top/of/chroot
mkdir dev
mount --bind /dev dev

Either way should work.

Zoombie · 05-10-2006, 06:25 PM

Thanks. That worked perfectly. I guess I probably should have known that after using Linux for several years, but I've never had to muck with device files much.