Joystick not working

[TerryNewton]

Hello all,

I have Knoppix 3.7 installed to HD, knoppix-mode, running on a generic 900mhz AMD MB with integrated
ports. Everything works ok (that I care about) except for the joystick and I'd really like to get that going.
I don't want to "just use the games knoppix" but rather learn how to make this work, it's just a "standard"
(wired by me) 2-axis joystick that shows up at port $201, verified to work fine under MSDOS on this
same machine. This should be a no-brainer. Joystick drivers appear to be loaded, got the /dev/'s but they
return device not attached. Perhaps they're set to the wrong hardware but I know not what I do... tried
modprobe joydev but that didn't do anything (no errors, no output when sudo), afraid to poke around
too much without knowledge of what I'm doing.

If anyone can help I would really appreciate it!

Terry Newton

Output of lspci -v... (not that it helps but forum note says post it.. the number for video mem looks wrong,
I don't have 128M video mem, it's 16M-32M and yes sisfb fatals and defaults to plain VGA, fine by me unless
that's what's making the JS not work... I seriously doubt it)
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0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 730 Host (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:00.1 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0) (prog-if 80 [Master])
Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS5513 EIDE Controller (A,B step)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 16
I/O ports at ff00 [size=16]

0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS85C503/5513 (LPC Bridge)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

0000:00:01.1 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 82)
Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet Adapter
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
I/O ports at cc00 [size=256]
Memory at cfff7000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Expansion ROM at cffc0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:01.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 3
Memory at cfffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

0000:00:01.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Onboard USB Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 3
Memory at cfffd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

0000:00:01.4 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 02)
Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS PCI Audio Accelerator
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
Memory at cfffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:01.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Modem Controller (rev a0) (prog-if 00 [Generic])
Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Modem Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
I/O ports at d400 [size=128]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:02.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, VGA palette snoop, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000a000-0000afff
Memory behind bridge: cfe00000-cfefffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: bfc00000-cfcfffff

0000:00:09.0 Parallel controller: Lava Computer mfg Inc Lava Parallel (prog-if 01 [BiDir])
Flags: slow devsel, IRQ 11
I/O ports at c800 [size=8]

0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 630/730 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter (rev 31) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 630/730 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter
Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel
BIST result: 00
Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at cfee0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
I/O ports at ac00 [size=128]
Capabilities: <available only to root>
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[TerryNewton]

... I know not what I do...

Figured it out... my boss had mercy on me and gave me a modern joystick and it works fine. I was wrong thinking the hardware had to be simple to work, Knoppix found this Microsoft USB joystick right away, even hot-plugged. Problem solved, Knoppix Rocks. Even works for dos games under DosEmu, now that's cool.

Terry