"Creating" a joystick "device" in /dev .

NicZak · n00b Joined: 21 Apr 2002 Posts: 29

After having no luck what-so-ever w/ my usb gamepad I slapped in my old sidewinder gamepad (gameport) into my soundblaster live card. As I had been screwing with the usb gamepad, one of the suggestions was to rm js* from /dev and make symlinks to the js* in /dev/input. In short, I just need to know what I should include with the mknod command, 'mknod /dev/js0' ? Is it the same as the usb devices where I do 'mknod /dev/js0 c 13 0' etc ..? Anyone else have this problem? Thanks -

NicZak

Syntaxis · Guru Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 511 Location: London, UK

Are you using devfs?
If so, I think that /dev/js should just be a symlink to the input device already, in the same way as /dev/mouse.

NicZak · n00b Joined: 21 Apr 2002 Posts: 29

There is actually nothing listed in /dev/js*, as they were symlinks to /dev/input/js* and were removed when I switched from a usb gamepad -> a gameport gamepad. Would mknod /dev/js0 c 13 0 work? Thanks -

NicZak

Guest · Posted: Fri May 10, 2002 6:54 am Post subject:

Ok, I cant test my gamepad (Logitech Wingman USB) as I have no game, yet. But if it might help, there was no /dev/js0 until i did modprobe joydev. Then, it suddenly appeared.