Re: Sidewinder
From: Dances With Crows (danceswithcrows_at_usa.net)
Date: 08/02/03
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Date: 2 Aug 2003 13:24:03 GMT
On Sat, 02 Aug 2003 09:44:28 GMT, NighTiger staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
> How can I setup my sidewinder in my debian desktop? I use 2.4.20
> kernel
Is this "sidewinder" a joystick, or something else? It's probably a
joystick, but you should've made that clear in your original message.
I'm going to assume it's a joystick as described in
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/input/joystick.txt around line 243. If
this is not correct, say something. And go read
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html .
The Microsoft Sidewinder joysticks described there are 15-pin joysticks.
This means you need to load the appropriate modules for them, like so:
0. modprobe es1371 joystick=0x200
The 15-pin game port is often part of the sound card, and cards with
the ES1371 chipset require the "joystick=" parameter for joysticks to
work. Your Soundcard May Vary, post the output of "lspci | grep audio"
if you're not sure what soundcard you have. Like if you have a
Soundblaster Live, you'd do "modprobe emu10k1-gp" to activate the card's
gameport.
1. modprobe joydev
Base support for all joysticks.
2. modprobe sidewinder
Support for the Microsoft Sidewinder joystick protocol.
After that's all been done, you should be able to do "jstest
/dev/input/js0" and see something. jstest is part of the "ruby"
package, or possibly the "jsutils" package. HTH,
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