Re: [expert] Joysticks

2000-12-04 Thread Stephen Boulet

No.  :(

> > Has anyone been able to get a digital joystick running in LM7.2?
>
> Spence



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Re: [expert] Joysticks

2000-12-04 Thread Jeff Cours

On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Stephen Boulet wrote:

> No.  :(
> 
> > > Has anyone been able to get a digital joystick running in LM7.2?
> >
> > Spence

I just spent a few minutes going over the Mandrake site and couldn't
find any mention of a joystick under the "Features" section. A search
of Mandrake Forum for the keyword "joystick" didn't turn up anything
either. I think I've been coming from the wrong direction here: I'd
thought that Mandrake supported joysticks but I was just having
problems getting them working, but now I'm begining to wonder if
they're officially supported hardware in the Mandrake distribution.

Well, anyway, I'm experimenting with the 2.4 kernel to see if I can
get joysticks (and some USB support I need) to work with it.
Flightgear just doesn't feel right under mouse control...

- Jeff





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Re: [expert] Joysticks

2000-12-05 Thread Stephen Boulet

I just subscribed to the joystick list 
(http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~vojtech/joystick/)

If I get some answers there, I'll post them to the list.

-- Stephen

> > On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Stephen Boulet wrote:
> > No.  :(
> >
> > > > Has anyone been able to get a digital joystick running in LM7.2?
> > >
> > > Spence
>
> I just spent a few minutes going over the Mandrake site and couldn't
> find any mention of a joystick under the "Features" section. A search
> of Mandrake Forum for the keyword "joystick" didn't turn up anything
> either. I think I've been coming from the wrong direction here: I'd
> thought that Mandrake supported joysticks but I was just having
> problems getting them working, but now I'm begining to wonder if
> they're officially supported hardware in the Mandrake distribution.
>
> Well, anyway, I'm experimenting with the 2.4 kernel to see if I can
> get joysticks (and some USB support I need) to work with it.
> Flightgear just doesn't feel right under mouse control...
>
> - Jeff



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Re: [expert] Joysticks

2000-12-05 Thread Balaji Ramani

On Monday 04 December 2000 18:29, you wrote:
> Has anyone been able to get a digital joystick running in LM7.2?
>
> Spence

Yes!  I have Micro$oft sidewinder force feedback pro joystick working under 
LM7.2.  But force feedback does not work.  I can use all the buttons.  I have 
a SoundBlaster Live!.

Here is what I did to get it working.

1. Recompiled the kernel (stock 2.2.17 + patches) to load the joystick and 
sidewinder modules.  Enabled sound support.

2. Downloaded the emu10k1 snapshot drivers and compiled them.

3. Added the following lines in /etc/modules.conf
alias char-major-15 joy-sidewinder
alias sound emu10k1
alias sound-slot-0  emu10k1
options emu10k1-joy io=0x200
pre-install joy-sidewinder modprobe -k emu10k1-joy

4. Tested the joystick with the command
jstest /dev/js0

Balaji



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Re: [expert] Joysticks

2000-12-05 Thread stephen boulet

Very interesting. The module "emu10k1-joy" is not included in a stock LM7.2, as far as 
I can tell. I wonder if a kernel compile is really necessary...

I guess it's time to do some compiling.

-- Stephen

> 
> On Monday 04 December 2000 18:29, you wrote:
> > Has anyone been able to get a digital joystick running in LM7.2?
> >
> > Spence
> 
> Yes!  I have Micro$oft sidewinder force feedback pro joystick working under 
> LM7.2.  But force feedback does not work.  I can use all the buttons.  I have 
> a SoundBlaster Live!.
> 
> Here is what I did to get it working.
> 
> 1. Recompiled the kernel (stock 2.2.17 + patches) to load the joystick and 
> sidewinder modules.  Enabled sound support.
> 
> 2. Downloaded the emu10k1 snapshot drivers and compiled them.
> 
> 3. Added the following lines in /etc/modules.conf
> alias char-major-15 joy-sidewinder
> alias sound emu10k1
> alias sound-slot-0  emu10k1
> options emu10k1-joy io=0x200
> pre-install joy-sidewinder modprobe -k emu10k1-joy
> 
> 4. Tested the joystick with the command
> jstest /dev/js0
> 
> Balaji





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Re: [expert] Joysticks

2000-12-05 Thread Spencer

Balaji Ramani wrote:
> 
> On Monday 04 December 2000 18:29, you wrote:
> > Has anyone been able to get a digital joystick running in LM7.2?
> >
> > Spence
> 
> Yes!  I have Micro$oft sidewinder force feedback pro joystick working under
> LM7.2.  But force feedback does not work.  I can use all the buttons.  I have
> a SoundBlaster Live!.
> 
> Here is what I did to get it working.
> 
> 1. Recompiled the kernel (stock 2.2.17 + patches) to load the joystick and
> sidewinder modules.  Enabled sound support.
> 
> 2. Downloaded the emu10k1 snapshot drivers and compiled them.
> 
> 3. Added the following lines in /etc/modules.conf
> alias char-major-15 joy-sidewinder
> alias sound emu10k1
> alias sound-slot-0  emu10k1
> options emu10k1-joy io=0x200
> pre-install joy-sidewinder modprobe -k emu10k1-joy
> 
> 4. Tested the joystick with the command
> jstest /dev/js0
> 
> Balaji
Thanks. I'll give that a try
cu;-) Spence 
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Re: [expert] Joysticks

2000-12-05 Thread Spencer

stephen boulet wrote:
> 
> Very interesting. The module "emu10k1-joy" is not included in a stock LM7.2, as far 
>as I can tell. I wonder if a kernel compile is really necessary...
> 
> I guess it's time to do some compiling.
> 
> -- Stephen
> 
> >
> > On Monday 04 December 2000 18:29, you wrote:
> > > Has anyone been able to get a digital joystick running in LM7.2?
> > >
> > > Spence
> >
> > Yes!  I have Micro$oft sidewinder force feedback pro joystick working under
> > LM7.2.  But force feedback does not work.  I can use all the buttons.  I have
> > a SoundBlaster Live!.
> >
> > Here is what I did to get it working.
> >
> > 1. Recompiled the kernel (stock 2.2.17 + patches) to load the joystick and
> > sidewinder modules.  Enabled sound support.
> >
> > 2. Downloaded the emu10k1 snapshot drivers and compiled them.
> >
> > 3. Added the following lines in /etc/modules.conf
> > alias char-major-15 joy-sidewinder
> > alias sound emu10k1
> > alias sound-slot-0  emu10k1
> > options emu10k1-joy io=0x200
> > pre-install joy-sidewinder modprobe -k emu10k1-joy
> >
> > 4. Tested the joystick with the command
> > jstest /dev/js0
> >
> > Balaji
> 
Yes, but it shouldn't really be necessary should it. I did a quick check
and I didn't find very many -joy modules of any kind.

cu;-) Spence
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Re: [expert] Joysticks

2000-12-05 Thread Balaji Ramani

On Tuesday 05 December 2000 12:24, you wrote:
> stephen boulet wrote:
> Yes, but it shouldn't really be necessary should it. I did a quick check
> and I didn't find very many -joy modules of any kind.
>
> cu;-) Spence

The problem is that the emu10k1 driver has a separate joystick driver.  Most 
of the soundcard drivers have the joystick driver built in.  That's the 
reason you need the emu10k1-joy module.

The the example that I gave you was for the SoundBlaster Live! card.  In case 
you have a different card, you most probably don't need the -joy module.  
Just load the sound module and the appropriate joystick module and you should 
be up and running...

Balaji



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Re: [expert] Joysticks

2000-12-05 Thread Balaji Ramani

LM7.2 comes with 2.2.17 version of the linux kernel.  This kernel has support 
for the emu10k chip.  But I guess it does not include support for the 
joystick driver (I am not very sure about it.).  That's the reason there is 
no "emu10k1-joy" in the stock LM7.2

If you can compile creative's emu10k1 drivers, then a recompile of the kernel 
is not necessary.  In that case do the following.

Rename emu10k1.o in /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc to emu10k1.o-old.

Compile creative's drivers.

Modify /etc/modules.conf as shown below.

Hopefully this should get your joystick working.

Balaji

PS: You can get creative's drivers from 
ftp://opensource.creative.com/pub/snapshots

On Tuesday 05 December 2000 11:32, you wrote:
> Very interesting. The module "emu10k1-joy" is not included in a stock
> LM7.2, as far as I can tell. I wonder if a kernel compile is really
> necessary...
>
> I guess it's time to do some compiling.
>
> -- Stephen
>
> > On Monday 04 December 2000 18:29, you wrote:
> > > Has anyone been able to get a digital joystick running in LM7.2?
> > >
> > > Spence
> >
> > Yes!  I have Micro$oft sidewinder force feedback pro joystick working
> > under LM7.2.  But force feedback does not work.  I can use all the
> > buttons.  I have a SoundBlaster Live!.
> >
> > Here is what I did to get it working.
> >
> > 1. Recompiled the kernel (stock 2.2.17 + patches) to load the joystick
> > and sidewinder modules.  Enabled sound support.
> >
> > 2. Downloaded the emu10k1 snapshot drivers and compiled them.
> >
> > 3. Added the following lines in /etc/modules.conf
> > alias char-major-15 joy-sidewinder
> > alias sound emu10k1
> > alias sound-slot-0  emu10k1
> > options emu10k1-joy io=0x200
> > pre-install joy-sidewinder modprobe -k emu10k1-joy
> >
> > 4. Tested the joystick with the command
> > jstest /dev/js0
> >
> > Balaji



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Re: [expert] Joysticks

2000-12-05 Thread J . A . Magallon


On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 18:52:42 Balaji Ramani wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 December 2000 12:24, you wrote:
> > stephen boulet wrote:
> > Yes, but it shouldn't really be necessary should it. I did a quick check
> > and I didn't find very many -joy modules of any kind.
> >
> > cu;-) Spence
> 
> The problem is that the emu10k1 driver has a separate joystick driver.  Most 
> of the soundcard drivers have the joystick driver built in.  That's the 
> reason you need the emu10k1-joy module.
> 

One other problem is what is the exact relation between emu driver in kernel
and the emu driver from Creative (which seems to be the base for the driver in
kernel, but that one in kernel misses joystick support).

ALSA is another problem. The alsa drivers for emu10k have not joystick
support. I have seen a patch around there, but I have not been able to find
it again. 

BTW, I have tried the Creative emu10k1-joy with the ALSA emu10k1, and works.
So the joystick driver is completely independen of the sound driver.
Perhaps it should be included with the joysticks drivers section in kernel.

Is there any specific list to send a patch or ask about how to do it ?

-- 
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Re: [expert] joysticks?

1999-09-07 Thread Andreas Spengler

Hi there,

On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Jason Bodnar wrote:

> Has anybody gotten a joystick to work successfully with mandrake? I have a
> Gravis GamePad Pro. I downloaded the latest joystick drivers and compiled them.
> 
> I the did:
> 
> $ insmod joystick
> 
> which worked fine. Then I did:
> 
> $ insmod joy-gravis
> joy-gravis: no joysticks found
> joy-gravis: init module device or resource busy
> 
> Should a game port module be loaded for my soundcard? If so, then I'm thinking
> that's the problem. Right now I only have the following modules loaded:
> 
No, I don't think so. But when you got a PnP Soundcard you most likely
need to activate the game port in isapnp.conf. It uses a standard port,
so that should be no problem

As for the gravis pad, I only have analog throttle stick, but I don't
get any error messages whatsoever...

greets,

Andreas