[Nottingham] Hello - joystick howto anybody?

[Lee]

I've not had the pleasure of joystick action in mandrake...

there is joydev module in (mandrake 8.1).

/lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/input/joydev.o.gz


you could try (as root)

lsmod | grep joydev

and see if it's all ready loaded, if it ain't..

do a insmod joydev

you will still have to create a node for it, 

if you do a lsmod now, you should see




if you do a cat /proc/devices you be able to find the major number for
input, as for the minor number??? 

joydev                  6176   0  
input                   3648   0  [joydev usbkbd keybdev mousedev hid]

so , joydev seems to rely on the input module.

hmmm...

ah, so, I hav'nt got a joystick port on this computer,. so  I can't
really get any further..


I suggest you read http://www.freelink.cx/joystick.html


of do a search in google with "joystick mandrake insmod joydev"

ah, google, what would we do with out it....

you should'nt need to recompile you kernel, if you can load dynamic
kernel modules for it with insmod. :-)


Okay, not much help I've been,  I'm more into packets than kernels...

Cheers,
Lee



b/On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 17:19, jason wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm fairly new to Linux and use it more as an OS to sit in the background than 
> something to play with all of the time, if that makes sense?
> Anyway, someone pointed my to the LUG as a useful source of information and 
> sharing ideas so I was wondering if anyone out there could help me on 
> something.
> I use Mandrake 9.0 (although it's actually a triple boot Mdk8.2, Win XP, 
> Mdk9.0 box but that's irrelevant really ) and I'm looking to try to get a 
> joystick working with it.
> Can anyone point me to a joystick howto please? As I cannot find one in the 
> LDP ( maybe I'm looking for the wrong thing?)
> A few things I've noticed so far:
> No /dev/js0 file (or whatever you call it) - which I suppose shouldn't 
> surprise me as the /dev files for the nvidia drivers didn't get created when 
> they should have either. I don't know if this matters.
> The Tuxracer docs say it should just work with a joystick in /dev/js0 but I 
> haven't got one. Can I just mknod one someone can tell me the major and minor 
> ids? (15,0 doesn't make it work )
> Harddrake says the joystick is a SB Live! (joystick) and uses module 
> emu10k1-gp.  I guess this is just a generic joystick driver for a joystick 
> plugged in through the SB sound card?
> 
> Anyway, if anyone could point me in the direction of a joystick howto, FAQ or 
> a list of things I need to do to make it work I'd be appreciative.
> (Not an urgent request as it's just something I've been meaning to do for a 
> while as someone told me that was why I can't get past level 3 on tux racer - 
> even if I keep the accel key pressed down all the way I still run out of 
> time.)
> I suspect that if I reinstall it'll be autodetected on installation but I 
> really don't want to have to do that.
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Jason Atkin
> 
> 
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