OK, if your joystick port is on a soundcard, then look through ALSA's doccies for the soundcard module and see if it has mpu-401 support built in. If it doesn't, or you have an IO/card with the joystick port on it, then you will need the ALSA module mpu-401 ... probably another kernel module as well ...

If you are using Mandrake And an USB pad
Then you need to load some extra modules:

If the above works, you might want to add "usb-uhci", "joydev" and "hid"(without the word modprobe) to your /etc/modules so it will make the pad/stick to work on boot .

On the other hand, if you're using a 15pin joystick, then my above comment still stands. joydev will also help.

And uhci is one of three modules you might need. The others are ehci and ohci. ONE of these will work.

Hi,

I've gotten my joystick to work on linux. I'm using Mandrake Linux 10. I had problems getting it to work. I have a 15 pin analog joystick. I had done some research on this forum and found some stuff on modprobing. I looked up the manual on modprobe by entering the linux bash shell and typing:

man modprobe

I found some stuff on jstest also but jstest wasnt a command. I even tried it in super user mode but that didnt work. I decided to do a rpm search on google. I found a rpm search engine and typed in jstest. I got a rpm package for jstest and immediatly installed it. After that I logged in as superuser and did the following.

Now you should be able to see the coords moving when you move your joystick or attatched device.
Congradulations.

bye hope that helps,
George

My 2.6.4 kernel doesn't have module "analog" ...

I have been trying for 2 days to get mandrake 10 recognise any of my many gamepads but no luck. I did get my joystick working but it is usb and is considered a huma interface device (hid) and not a joystick.

I did

modprobe joydev
modprobe adi

for my gamepad, and nothing. so i did the vebose modprobe joydev and found the insmod command it used, when I tried that is gave me an error saying the module was invalad module format. I think the modules are from a diffrent version or something.

I may try compiling a new kernel, or just use the dam keyboard.

I also have been trying to get a sega genesis controller working. I made an adaptor and the db9 module said there was no such device.

I tried the modprobe analog with my analog gamepad, but js0 never showed up.

I figured out the solution

to use a 15 pin (gameport) contoller you have to first load the gameport module with

modprobe ns558

then your driver

so my config steps looked like this

modprobe joydev
mofprobe ns558
modprobe adi

then it wokrd fine

see this site for more info

http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.4/8...n/joystick.txt