Enabling Joystick????

I want to enable the joystick that's connected to my sound card. In /var/log/messages I see a kernel message that my sound card is recognized as an es1370 (sound works) but the next line says "es1370: features: joystick off, line in, mic impedance 0". The es1370 is compiled inline not as a module. The joystick driver doc's say that I have to enable the joystick via the sound card and I can't find any way to do this!!! Gerry