Joystick

**t048** · 07-31-2002, 05:19 AM

Does anyone know how to get a joystick working in Linux? I've found all kinds of information about USB joysticks, but my joystick is not USB. It is a Interact Raider Pro two axis four button joy stick and plugs into the game port on the sound card or the motherboard (I can't remember the interface's name).

**pbharris** · 07-31-2002, 02:48 PM

hello,
do a modprobe gameport, and possibley a few others depending on the sound card.

**t048** · 07-31-2002, 08:54 PM

[quote author=pbharris link=board=1;threadid=4417;start=0#43976 date=1028126887]
hello,
do a modprobe gameport, and possibley a few others depending on the sound card.
[/quote]

Ok, I ran [tt]modprobe gameport[/tt] and [tt]modprobe -v gameport[/tt] and got no out put at all; it just returned to the prompt. Is that what is suppose to happen?

**Gaenya** · 07-31-2002, 10:30 PM

check dmesg, and check this too
http://www.freelink.cx/joystick.html

**pbharris** · 07-31-2002, 11:15 PM

if the modprocomamdn has no probelms then it will do exactly what you desciibed happened, you may need to load other modules too.

**trickster** · 08-01-2002, 02:38 AM

[quote author=t048 link=board=1;threadid=4417;start=0#44009 date=1028148842]
[quote author=pbharris link=board=1;threadid=4417;start=0#43976 date=1028126887]
hello,
do a modprobe gameport, and possibley a few others depending on the sound card.
[/quote]

Ok, I ran [tt]modprobe gameport[/tt] and [tt]modprobe -v gameport[/tt] and got no out put at all; it just returned to the prompt. Is that what is suppose to happen?
[/quote]

I think that, if you modprobe and get back to the prompt w/o any error messages, it means you loaded the driver successfully.

**blueminder** · 08-05-2002, 06:49 AM

When I looked at the 2.4.18 kernel, if you look around a bit, you should find a place for Joystick Support and if it should use a gameport. It also includes choices between gameports from different sound cards.
hope that helps some.