Re: Enabling Microsoft Sidewinder gamepad on Red Hat 9.0
From: J.O. Aho (user_at_example.net)
Date: 10/27/03
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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 15:23:47 +0100
Wendell Joyner wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am looking for some assistance in getting a Microsoft Sidewinder
> gamepad working in Red Hat 9.0. I get errors when attempting to compile
> the joystick 1.2.15 driver, but since I'm not experienced with
> Makefiles, I'm not understanding why it's failing. I then installed the
> joystick-1.2.15 rpm but I'm still not able to get my gamepad recognized.
> I have tried using 'jstest /dev/js0' (which says 'jstest: No such
> device') and running GNOME Stones to see if it was enabled. Here are my
> system specifics:
>
> Red Hat 9.0 (2.4.20-20.9)
> Sound Blaster PCI 128 (shows up as Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97]
> Compaq Presario 7110US (1.3 GHz AMD Athlon) stock system
>
> The game pad is connected to the sound card's game port. When I check
> dmesg I see the following line:
>
> es1371: features: joystick 0x0
>
> So I think the joystick port is being recognized.
>
> Any insights would be greatly appreciated.
You may need to recompile your kernel, for some gamepads/joysticks needs
special support. But take a look at http://www.freelink.cx/joystick.html
//Aho
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