Hey all... Been away for a while, but I'm back now... This may sound like a strange reply, but I may have a workaround for you. Please understand that what I am saying is a very generalized comments, especially since I have never owned a Gravis soundcard of any type... 1. Is this card Plug-n-Play(Pray)? 2. Do you know the address(s) that are being assigned to the joystick interface under Windows (Look in the Device Manager tab under the System icon in the Windows Control Panel) In my experience with both Linux and BeOS, I have had several types of cards ranging from Network adapters to soundcards that refuse to work because they have not been set up correctly. I usually use a DOS driver to initalize the card, and then use loadlin to boot into the Operating System (Yes, you can boot BeOS this way as well, at least my old outdated 4.0 version - I am buying 4.5 this morning BTW)... I recently purchased a motherboard on the cheap that has an onboard SoundPro soundcard that doesn't initalize, even under DOS.... Not ever the joystick interface... So, by running the DOS driver in order to set the card up, and then boot Linux, you might get the card to show up as well as its various compnets... You can also do some `fun and games' hacking on the /etc/isapnp.conf as well as playing around with isapnp tools... Or, if the card does show up, do you have the physical I/O addresses and other resources used by the joystick port inserted into the module correctly when you call it at load time? Hope this helps... Just my two cents worth... Brian - aka Moriarty - ICQ #6405650
I have a Gravis digital and compiled it as module and it is not even detected by the system. Works fine in Windows though.
Tim, NJ
Nevada wrote:
I'm just a newbie and not an expert, but you can compile Joystick support into the kernel or load it as a module. You can use Yast to do this.
Nevada
"Darren R. Weber" wrote:
I'd like to set up my new joystick and possibly try out a few
games under
Linux. I've never really had time for games on here, but with the new versions of Quake II and Loki Games planning to port more games I'd like to give it a try. Can someone point me in the right direction to find out how. Maybe a good howto somewhere?
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