Has anyone successfully gotten a USB joystick to work in RedHat 9? My joystick is the Logitech Wingman RumbePad, but I think it should be the same for anyone. What did you need to install?

jstest for me on /dev/input/js0 gives me

jstest: No such device

Not sure what to do...

The joystick still doesn't work but here's an update on what I've done, if it helps:

I intalled the given joystick modules:
$ /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/input/joydev.o
$ /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/input/input.o

and made sure I had joystick interfaces in /dev/input, which I do (specifically js0 - js15 or so).

So now when I try to test my joystick with jstest on /dev/input/js0, my machine freezes and my keyboard starts blinking (the Num, Caps, and Scroll lock keys). This isn't recoverable by plugging another keyboard in...

What next?

I guess I'll keep replying to myself until someone else does . (Hey, maybe I'll answer my own question and then someone else will find it doing a google search). Anyway the system is finding my USB device, an /sbin/lsusb gives me the following for my RumblePad:

Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c20a Logitech Inc. WingMan RumblePad
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 1.00
bDeviceClass 0 Interface
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 8
idVendor 0x046d Logitech Inc.
idProduct 0xc20a WingMan RumblePad
bcdDevice 1.07
iManufacturer 4 Logitech Inc.
iProduct 32 WingMan RumblePad
iSerial 0
bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 41
bNumInterfaces 1
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 0
bmAttributes 0x80
MaxPower 500mA
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 2
bInterfaceClass 3 Human Interface Devices
bInterfaceSubClass 0 No Subclass
bInterfaceProtocol 0 None
iInterface 0
HID Device Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 33
bcdHID 1.10
bCountryCode 33
bNumDescriptors 1
bDescriptorType 34 Report
wDescriptorLength 101
cannot get report descriptor
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 3
Transfer Type Interrupt
Synch Type none
wMaxPacketSize 8
bInterval 10
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x01 EP 1 OUT
bmAttributes 3
Transfer Type Interrupt
Synch Type none
wMaxPacketSize 8
bInterval 10
Language IDs: (length=4)
0409 English(US)


Which is a good sign I guess. Still awaiting...

Let's change the question a little bit, in hopes that it might perk some interest. The only thing I can think of is my card isn't located in the joydev.o compiled drivers. Does anyone know if it's in the RedHat 9 kernel by default? If not then the linux joystick driver is the answer, at

http://www.linuxgames.com/joystick/

. Now I've been trying to get the thing to work and if I could just compile the blasted thing I'd install it. But I keep getting parse errors and shit every time it compiles. I suspect that my mistake is in the Makefile (because you HAVE to edit the damn thing for it to work) but I haven't an idea where...I probably set my modules directory to the wrong thing, but I don't think so. Has anyone figured out how to compile it in RedHat 9?