Hi!

I'm running Mandrake Linux 10.1 (kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk), and my only problem is that I haven't managed to get the joystick/gamport to work. Any help would be appreciated!

The soundcard and gameport is integrated with the motherboard (Intel SE440BX-2). The sound works as it should in Linux, and the joystick and gameport works in Windows so at least nothings broken. :-)

The joystick is a Gravis Gamepad Pro.

"lspci" reports the soundcard as "Yamaha Corporation YMF-740C [DS-1L Audio Controller]", and it uses the module snd-ymfpci.

As far as I understand the problem is related to the module ns558. When I try to load it with modprobe says that "No such device" exists.

Any ideas?

Some more debug info follows below.

Thanks!

/Mattias

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# modprobe -v ns558
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk/kernel/drivers/input/gameport/ns558.ko.gz
FATAL: Error inserting ns558 (/lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk/kernel/drivers/input/gameport/ns558.ko.gz): No such device


# ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk/kernel/drivers/input/gameport/ns558.ko.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2937 Oct 1 12:55 /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk/kernel/drivers/input/gameport/ns558.ko.gz


# dmesg
...
kobject_register failed for ns558 (-17)
[<c0107bfe>] dump_stack+0x1e/0x20
[<c01c179b>] kobject_register+0x5b/0x70
[<c0210c99>] bus_add_driver+0x69/0xc0
[<c02112a1>] driver_register+0x31/0x40
[<c01ea9df>] pnp_register_driver+0x2f/0x60
[<d4be4030>] ns558_init+0x30/0x4d [ns558]
[<c01337a2>] sys_init_module+0xd2/0x1c0
[<c0106dcd>] sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x71


# lspci
...
00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation YMF-740C [DS-1L Audio Controller] (rev 03)
...


# lspci -n -s 00:0c.0
00:0c.0 Class 0401: 1073:000c (rev 03)


# lspci -v -s 00:0c.0
00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation YMF-740C [DS-1L Audio Controller] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 5332
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
Memory at e8010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 1


# lspci -vv -s 00:0c.0
00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation YMF-740C [DS-1L Audio Controller] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 5332
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR+
Latency: 64 (1250ns min, 6250ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
Region 0: Memory at e8010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 1
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-


# lsmod | grep snd-ymfpci
snd-ymfpci 53988 4
snd-ac97-codec 69392 1 snd-ymfpci
snd-pcm 81800 3 snd-pcm-oss,snd-ymfpci
snd-opl3-lib 8448 1 snd-ymfpci
snd-timer 20356 4 snd-seq,snd-ymfpci,snd-pcm,snd-opl3-lib
snd-page-alloc 7400 2 snd-ymfpci,snd-pcm
gameport 3328 1 snd-ymfpci
snd-mpu401-uart 5856 1 snd-ymfpci
snd 45988 20 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-pcm-oss,snd-mixer-oss,snd-ymfpci,
snd-ac97-codec,snd-pcm,snd-opl3-lib,snd-timer,snd-hwdep,
snd-mpu401-uart,snd-rawmidi,snd-seq-device

Anyone?

Gravis Gamepad Pro should be handled by the grip module. Try loading it and see what happens. I stumbled on your post because I'm having problems myself with a Gravis USB Gamepad, the Eliminator, but grip doesn't seem to see it or print any errors at all. But the source code for the grip module does mention the Gravis Gamepad Pro, so I guess that's one of the supported devices ...

Hi, Thanks for the answer!

The grip module loads fine, but it doesn't give me a /dev/js0 or something else to work with. I think that's the job for the ns558 module which doesn't load on my system.