Re: Joystick not recognized by games

[Wackojacko <wackojacko32@ntlworld.com>]

Freddy Freeloader wrote:
> I have a Gravis Blackhawk that isn't being recognized by any games.  It 
> is, however, recognized at boot as recorded by dmesg.
>
> The following modules are loaded at boot:  joydev, grip, emu10k-gp, 
> gameport, and ns558.  I'm running a Soundblaster Live! sound card.
> There is a /dev/input/js0.
> So, what am I missing?  The following link gives some instructions for 
> getting joysticks to work in Debian but it's pretty old and says that 
> the instructions and utilities there are for the 2.4 kernel so I'm 
> unsure if all the instructions are valid:  
> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~vojtech/input/ .
>
> I'm running a mixture of sid and Sarge with the 2.6.8-2-386 kernel, but 
> have only the packages required for Firefox 1.07 installed from sid.

I had a similar problem with a Joystick a while back, it wasn't even 
creating the dev node.  It still didn't work when I created it manually 
because the permissions were incorrect.  They were created with 600 
permissions and not 660 as are the rest of the input devices.  I know 
have an init script to create the devices and chmod them on boot which 
seems to work YMMV.

HTH

Wackojacko