Michael F. Robbins on Tue, 10 Dec 2002 21:14:12 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Anyone use joysticks under linux?


On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 16:37, Gregson Helledy wrote:
> I thought that the joystick would be detected simply by 
> plugging it in (to be clear, I did this with power off). 
> However, nothing was detected.

You do need a specific driver for the joystick.  Try "modprobe analog"
for a generic joystick.  You also need the "joydev" module, and you may
also need to insmod the "input" module, unless you have input core
support compiled in.

Take a look at linux-src-tree/Documentation/input/joystick.txt

Michael F. Robbins
mike@gamerack.com

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