no joy , no stick [SOLVED, JOY IS ME]

Gentree · Last edited by Gentree on Mon Jul 04, 2005 9:49 am; edited 2 times in total

just bought a 2nd hand db boeder joystick but I'm not getting any joy.

added joydev and joystick to my kernel. can modprobe joydev but no /dev/input/js0 nor /dev/js0 (udev system)

am I missing a step or have I bought a dildo?

TIA Gentree.
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Gentree · Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 12:16 pm Post subject:

The good news : it works ! I ran up Suse and got it installed in 5 mins.

Now the counter is running at about 5 hours effort of searching , posting and googling and I dont even have /dev/input/j* on Gentoo. :roll:

There seems to be loads of ppl using joysticks, could someone post the very first steps to that I can at least see the device. I reckon I now know enuf about the rest after all my digging.

TIA

BTW

Gentree · Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 5:08 pm Post subject:

OK there seems to be a complete void on setting up an analog JS on Gentoo.

This is getting mad.

I (think) I have all the necessary modules loaded : joydev, analog, gameport and snd_cmipci

I created the nodes by hand but I still no "joy".

It seems to be req to restart alsa as well but I'm really flying in the dark just trying to guess what Suse YAST did to get this up so easily.

uf_nihongo84 · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 1:28 am Post subject:

Gentree · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 2:10 am Post subject:

Well, thanks for the suggestion but well written as it is , it is just one guy with one card. It is not documentation.

Sadly I dont have his card and it is now 18 working hours I have wasted on this crap.

The most annoying is I know it works perfectly , it took 5 minutes to set up on Suse, so there cant be that much wrong. Just a total bloody lack of information.

I can see I'm going to have to downgrade my soundcard just to get this working .

Thanks for the reply anyway.

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Gentree · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 9:48 am Post subject:

Well I did manage to get one piece of crucial info out of that page : joystick_port=1

I had already tried that a few days back and it threw and error so I concluded it was not a valid option for my card. There must have been something else missing at that stage that caused it to fail.

This has been two days full-time on a paper chase to install something as trivial as bloody joystick.

At least it works now.

Thanks for pointing me to the final piece of the jigsaw.

I have just completed my first flight in a Cesna without having to use the keyboard, it is much more satisfying.

Now to consolidate what I have learnt and write it up.

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