Re: NES Parallel Controller Adaper?

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/17/04

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    Date: 17 Oct 2004 19:40:50 GMT

    ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.hardware.] On Sun, 17 Oct
    2004 19:13:43 GMT, jrapp@nctc.net staggered into the Black Sun and said:
    > Hey everybody. I'm trying to get my NES Parallel Port controller to
    > work on my Fedora FC2 Box running kernel 2.6.8.1.

    Hmm. I don't think the relevant bits have changed since the 2.4 series,
    but you'll need to check up on that.

    > hardware works, since I can use it on my windows machine. I've
    > recompiled the kernel, making sure that joystick support (including
    > the parallel port adapter) was enabled. I've modprob'ed (what I think
    > is) correctly.
    > modprobe joydev
    > modprobe analog js=0,2,0,0,0,0

    Wrong. analog is for 15-pin joysticks. You want "modprobe gamecon
    0,2", I think.

    > /dev/js0 device, i get "jscal: cant't open joystick device: No such
    > device" I'm stumped.

    Make sure everything else is loaded. For a parport device, you need to
    have parport , parport_pc, and probably lp loaded.

    > The docs on this seem kinda vauge/confusing since they seem to refer
    > to a different module than what was made when I complied the kernel.

    Would "those docs" be
    /usr/src/linux/Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt ? That's the
    one you need to be looking at. When you do "make menuconfig", you need
    to say M to Device Drivers->Input Device Support-> Multisystem, NES,
    SNES, N64, PSX joysticks and gamepads . HTH, 

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