FC8, Sidewinder gameport troubles

[szilagyic]

Hello:

I've recently been trying to get my old Sidewinder gamepads (2 gamepads daisy chained to a gameport on the sound card) working on a FC8 system. I have read all over and still cannot get the kernel to see the gamepads. My soundcard is a Creative AudioPCI (it was automatically detected when I installed FC8 and is using the snd_ens1371 and gameport modules). I've tried using modprobe with joydev, analog, and sidewinder modules. Nothing shows up in /var/log/messages, I'm assuming something should appear if it sees the gamepads. Also, no device file for /dev/input/js0 is created.

Can anybody shed some light on this? I am completely stumped.

Thank you !!

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Chris

[LDC]

if you can't see it with dmesg then is a bad thing...
did you try with a much older kernel? who knows...

Also, no device file for /dev/input/js0 is created.
for this you can read about mknod

just my 2 cents :)

[szilagyic]

Hello and thanks for the quick reply! Shortly after I posted my message I got lucky and stumbled on the answer. I checked /proc/asound/card0/audiopci and sure enough it had Joystick: off. I edited /etc/modprobe.conf and used: "options snd-ens1371 index=0 joystick_port=1" to enable the joystick. Then I did a "modprobe joydev" and "modprobe sidewinder" and voila, it detected the gamepads! Just got Gens running and it's working better than it ever did in Winblows!

Thanks,
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Chris