Re: Joystick not recognized by games

From: Freddy Freeloader (fredddy_at_cableone.net)
Date: 09/30/05

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    Hey Wackojacko,

    I'd read your posts on that already. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to
    be my problem. The permissions are correct and I don't have to
    recreate/reload anything after reboots.

    Wackojacko wrote:

    > Freddy Freeloader wrote:
    >
    >> I have a Gravis Blackhawk that isn't being recognized by any games.
    >> It is, however, recognized at boot as recorded by dmesg.
    >>
    >> The following modules are loaded at boot: joydev, grip, emu10k-gp,
    >> gameport, and ns558. I'm running a Soundblaster Live! sound card.
    >> There is a /dev/input/js0.
    >> So, what am I missing? The following link gives some instructions
    >> for getting joysticks to work in Debian but it's pretty old and says
    >> that the instructions and utilities there are for the 2.4 kernel so
    >> I'm unsure if all the instructions are valid:
    >> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~vojtech/input/ .
    >>
    >> I'm running a mixture of sid and Sarge with the 2.6.8-2-386 kernel,
    >> but have only the packages required for Firefox 1.07 installed from sid.
    >>
    >
    > I had a similar problem with a Joystick a while back, it wasn't even
    > creating the dev node. It still didn't work when I created it
    > manually because the permissions were incorrect. They were created
    > with 600 permissions and not 660 as are the rest of the input
    > devices. I know have an init script to create the devices and chmod
    > them on boot which seems to work YMMV.
    >
    > HTH
    >
    > Wackojacko
    >
    > 

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