MegaDrive Control on linux

maginotjr · 07-16-2005, 12:21 PM

I have a mega drive control pad and I have already made the cable to connect it to my Paralelal port, but how do I make my slack see the control ??

I remember that there is a windows drivers, but for linux anyone know how do I do this?

MS3FGX · 07-16-2005, 02:21 PM

By chance, I just stumbled upon what you are looking for when I was compiling 2.6.12.

The driver you are looking for is:

Device Drivers -> Input device support -> Joysticks -> Multisystem, Sega Genesis, Saturn joysticks and gamepads

You will have to include Parallel port and joystick support as well, if you haven't already.

rezzie · 07-17-2005, 06:52 AM

read kernel documentation about gamecon

on my psx card i need to: modprobe gamecon gc=0,7
change '7' with a lower number (i forgot the number for sega mega drive

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rezzie · 07-18-2005, 01:18 AM

sorry, i was wrong...

sega megadrive joypad on parallel port supported by db9.o module.

so try: modprobe db9

dont forget for other module dependencies like input.o, joydev.o, parport.o, parport_pc.o

maginotjr · 07-18-2005, 12:25 PM

no ... isnt working with my zsnes...

rezzie · 07-19-2005, 03:43 AM

do you get error message when modprobing?

a simple test to check if joystick working or not try:
od -xw8 /dev/js0