Sidewinder and Analog Gamepads

BeauMN · 12-01-2006, 08:16 PM

I have two gameports: one is on-board and the other is in my Sound Blaster Live! 5.1.

I have two gamepads: a Microsoft Sidewinder gamepad and an old 4-button analog gamepad.

I have been struggling to get both of these working in my fresh Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 install. (They both work fine together in Windows 2000)

The Sidewinder works with the 'sidewinder' module, and the analog works with the 'analog' module. However, the Sidewinder gets detected incorrectly whenever the 'analog' module is loaded. Is there any way to control which device these modules are applied to?

Is there any other way to get both of these working simultaneously?

Let me know if you need any more information from me. Thanks for your help!

HappyTux · 12-02-2006, 01:04 PM

Try a file like this in the /etc/modprobe.d/ directory named say joysticks.

Code:

## Added by me for proper detection of joysticks

alias js0 sidewinder
alias js1 analog

Hopefully this will make the first joystick be associated with the sidewinder module with it being loaded before the analog gets a chance to load. One other thing to try would be putting both the analog and sidewinder modules on a line by themselves in the file /etc/modules making the sidewinder the first entry in the file.