sb live joystick (knoppix 3.3)

**raduen** · 12-14-2003, 10:14 PM

How can i make a joystick work on a sb live.
joystick sidewinder pro (analog)

**Stephen** · 12-15-2003, 01:17 AM

Originally Posted by raduen

How can i make a joystick work on a sb live.
joystick sidewinder pro (analog)

Assuming that it just uses the sidewinder module like my regular sidewinder then:

Code:

# Added by me for Sidewinder Joystick
alias char-major-13     sidewinder
pre-install sidewinder modprobe joydev ; modprobe emu10k1-gp

Needs to be added to the file /etc/modutils/aliases and you have to run update-modules to enter the changes in the /etc/module.conf for the next boot.

Then in the /etc/modules I have:

Code:

# Added by me for Sidewinder joystick
gameport
joydev
emu10k1-gp
sidewinder

I do not know if you need the duplicate modules in here but I do not see any errors on boot so the system must like them in there. Reboot and you should have use of the joystick, what it looks like in use:

Code:

HappyTux:/home/stephen# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P
snd-pcm-oss            36708   1  (autoclean)
snd-mixer-oss          11408   0  (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
nvidia               1628672  11  (autoclean)
apm                     9256   2  (autoclean)
snd-emu10k1            60692   2
snd-pcm                55776   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-emu10k1]
snd-timer              14180   0  [snd-pcm]
snd-hwdep               4608   0  [snd-emu10k1]
snd-util-mem            1152   0  [snd-emu10k1]
snd-page-alloc          5392   0  [snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm]
snd-rawmidi            12512   0  [snd-emu10k1]
snd-seq-device          3844   0  [snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi]
snd-ac97-codec         35832   0  [snd-emu10k1]
snd                    30148   1  [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-hwdep snd-util-mem snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec]
soundcore               3556   6  [snd]
usb-uhci               21708   0  (unused)
usbcore                57504   1  [usb-uhci]
ide-scsi                9008   0
via686a                 8192   0
i2c-proc                6256   0  [via686a]
i2c-isa                 1196   0  (unused)
i2c-core               12868   0  [via686a i2c-proc i2c-isa]
nls_iso8859-15          3388   0  (unused)
sidewinder              8388   0  (unused)
emu10k1-gp              1224   0  (unused)
joydev                  6976   1
gameport                1516   0  [sidewinder emu10k1-gp]
parport_pc             25192   1  (autoclean)
lp                      6528   0
parport                24960   1  [parport_pc lp]
tulip                  38208   1
crc32                   2848   0  [tulip]
autofs4                 8500   2
input                   3360   0  [sidewinder joydev]

All the modules are included in Knoppix that you should need and the /dev/js* devices that are used should be there as well. To test the joystick and see which buttons are which you should install the joystick package and use the line jstest /dev/js0 you should see output similar to this:

Code:

[08:04 PM Sun Dec 14: stephen @ ~]
>$ jstest /dev/js0
Joystick (Microsoft SideWinder GamePad) has 2 axes and 10 buttons. Driver version is 2.1.0.
Testing ... (interrupt to exit)
Axes:  0:     0  1:     0 Buttons:  0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off  
Axes:  0:     0  1:     0 Buttons:  0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off  
Axes:  0:     0  1:     0 Buttons:  0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off  
Axes:  0:     0  1:     0 Buttons:  0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off  
Axes:  0:     0  1:     0 Buttons:  0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off  
Axes:  0:     0  1:     0 Buttons:  0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off  
Axes:  0:     0  1:     0 Buttons:  0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off

If you see output like this then it installed properly and you can open a program like XMMS and actually use it by configuring the joystick plugin to control the functions.