Re: Joystick on a SB32

[David Blackman <david@whizziwig.com>]

It works fine, it always has, I was loading the josytick driver with no
joystick attached

tahnks,
--dave

On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Adam C Powell IV wrote:

> "Ingles, Raymond" wrote:
> 
> > > From: David Blackman [mailto:david@whizziwig.com]
> > > I have my SB32 autoconfigured by my BIOS, with sound support
> > > in my kernel, how can I get the joystick port on my SB32 to work
> > > without turning off auto-PNP in BIOS, and isapnp'ing it.
> >
> >  I'm not sure you can. Somehow the card needs to be told to
> > activate the joystick port, and where to map it (almost always
> > 0x200-0x207). If your BIOS can't, I don't think the kernel
> > drivers are smart enough to.
> 
> Ins't there a field in the pnpdump for the game port?  If you uncomment the right
> lines, it should be possible to activate and map it properly using isapnp, right?
> Never tried it, just wondering.
> 
> Zeen,
> 
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