On Tuesday 17 July 2001 02:25, s wrote:
> Can anyone brief me on the set up of a joystick? I know... rtfm, but
> I've found the the fine manuals really don't apply much anymore
> especially with 8.0. Alot of the kernel config, file edits, steps, and
> such aren't necessary anymore for many things to work: such as X, sound
> cards or modems. Advances in support are vastly surpassing the progress
> in the documentation project.
>
> I'm hoping that's the case with joysticks. I've read howtos. Patch and
> config kernel. Install joystick tarballs, Ruby (?), jscal, jstest and
> all. Sounds like a lot of stuff that i don't fully comprehend and might
> today be unnecessary.
>
> (Anybody heard of Raider Pro? I didn't buy it, my spouse came home with
> about a year ago for me, thinking I would use it. Well now with the
> purchase of descent3, I'd like to. I don't think I'll be able to use
> the game otherwise.) I have no experience with joysticks even in
> windows. I hooked it onto the back of my sound blaster card and
> harddrake doesn't know it's there, but kde systems control lists a sb
> controller for it and it's i/o.
>
> What's the procedure with 8.0, can anyone help?
>
> TIA,
> -s
If you're using a 2.4 kernel, add the following to /etc/modules.conf...
# Joystick
alias char-major-13 joydev ns558 <yourJoystickModule, e.g. analog>
[ joydev is the joystick module; ns558 is gameport (back of your blaster);
read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/joystick.txt ]
If you're using a 2.2 kernel, add the following to /etc/modules.conf...
# Joystick
alias char-major-15 <yourJoystickModule>
That should be it. Good luck.
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Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales.
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Linux Mandrake release 8.0 (Traktopel) for i586,
kernel 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin-pnr, XFree86 4.0.3, patch level 11mdk,
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