Re: [expert] Joysticks
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 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Joysticks
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$oft sidewinder force feedback pro joystick working under LM7.2. But force feedback does not work. I can use all the buttons. I have a SoundBlaster Live!. Here is what I did to get it working. 1. Recompiled the kernel (stock 2.2.17 + patches) to load the joystick and sidewinder modules. Enabled sound support. 2. Downloaded the emu10k1 snapshot drivers and compiled them. 3. Added the following lines in /etc/modules.conf alias char-major-15 joy-sidewinder alias sound emu10k1 alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1 options emu10k1-joy io=0x200 pre-install joy-sidewinder modprobe -k emu10k1-joy 4. Tested the joystick with the command jstest /dev/js0 Balaji Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Joysticks
Very interesting. The module "emu10k1-joy" is not included in a stock LM7.2, as far as I can tell. I wonder if a kernel compile is really necessary... I guess it's time to do some compiling. -- Stephen On Monday 04 December 2000 18:29, you wrote: Has anyone been able to get a digital joystick running in LM7.2? Spence Yes! I have Micro$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 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Joysticks
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$oft sidewinder force feedback pro joystick working under LM7.2. But force feedback does not work. I can use all the buttons. I have a SoundBlaster Live!. Here is what I did to get it working. 1. Recompiled the kernel (stock 2.2.17 + patches) to load the joystick and sidewinder modules. Enabled sound support. 2. Downloaded the emu10k1 snapshot drivers and compiled them. 3. Added the following lines in /etc/modules.conf alias char-major-15 joy-sidewinder alias sound emu10k1 alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1 options emu10k1-joy io=0x200 pre-install joy-sidewinder modprobe -k emu10k1-joy 4. Tested the joystick with the command jstest /dev/js0 Balaji Thanks. I'll give that a try cu;-) Spence Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Joysticks
stephen boulet wrote: Very interesting. The module "emu10k1-joy" is not included in a stock LM7.2, as far as I can tell. I wonder if a kernel compile is really necessary... I guess it's time to do some compiling. -- Stephen On Monday 04 December 2000 18:29, you wrote: Has anyone been able to get a digital joystick running in LM7.2? Spence Yes! I have Micro$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 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Joysticks
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 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Joysticks
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 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Joysticks
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 ? -- Juan Antonio Magallon Lacarta # cd /pub mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] # more beer Linux 2.2.18-pre24-vm #2 SMP Wed Nov 29 02:56:21 CET 2000 i686 unknown Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Joysticks
No. :( Has anyone been able to get a digital joystick running in LM7.2? Spence Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Joysticks
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 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] joysticks?
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
