Re: gamecon driver

[Lawrence Williams <lawrence_cecil_williams@hotmail.com>]

Matt Fishburn wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I recently soldered a couple of SNES controllers as suggested in the
> Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt file (from the kernel tree). 
> The controllers work well under the stock Debian 2.4.18-1-686 kernel,
> but I've been unable to get the controllers working under several 2.6
> kernels (the stock 2.6.7-1-686 kernel didn't work, and neither did
> several 2.6.8.1 kernels I've compiled).  I receive a "No such device"
> error when I try modprobing the gamecon module with the 2.6 kernels I've
> tried, and I can't seem to find a resolution online to this issue.
>
> I wouldn't mind trying to figure out if there is a problem with the
> driver in the 2.6 kernel (I have some programming experience), but I'm
> unsure how to start troubleshooting the issue (where to look in the
> kernel, online, etc.).  Any suggestions?
>
> Matt Fishburn
> fishburn at mit dot edu
>
>
>  
Hmmmmm... I can relate...

I have a Microsoft Sidewinder connected to the Gameport on my Intel 810 
onboard sound card. It worked fine under all 2.4.2x and 2.6.x ( up to 
and including 2.6.2 ) kernels.

Once I installed 2.6.3, it stopped working. I use the same modules as 
before ( joydev, gameport, ns558, and sidewinder ). Only difference now 
is that the gameport module detects the port, then before ns558 fails 
with error code -16 ( still haven't discovered why it does ).

I am using ALSA module snd-intel8x0 and have tried every suggestion 
under the sun ( passing joystick_port options and the like ). Strange 
thing is, I recently tried out SuSE 9.1 Professional ( DVD ) and the 
YaST sound card utility detected the gamepad and had it working! I 
should've noted if it was a 2.6 or 2.4 kernel.

Best of luck to you!
Lawrence