Re: No joystick device nodes - SOLVED
Final problem for today at least. I cannot get my sidewinder precision
pro to work with Linux. I have a Asus A8N-SLI NF4 motherboard and I am
using the latest Nvidia drivers (0301 I think) but no device nodes are
created. I've tried creating the device nodes manually and modprobe
sidewinder/joydev/gameport in various order without success.
Finally tracked down the problem to with permissions on the js device nodes.
They are created with 600 permissions but all the other devices in
/dev/input have 660. So to get the joystick working, as root (sudo)
cd /dev/input/
MAKEDEV js
chmod 660 *js*
Modprobe gameport ns558 sidewinder
Seems to need the ns558 module also as its a ISAPNP gameport.
I am still not sure why these are not created at boot, and why MAKEDEV gives
them the wrong permissions when set up manually. Any help would be
appreciated.
Thanks
Wackojacko
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