Neil Darlow <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am passing on this information at the request of Daniel Drake (Gentoo kernel
> ebuild maintainer).
>
> My hardware is an ASRock K7S41GX motherboard with Athlon XP2200+ CPU
> running 2.6.12 on Gentoo GNU/Linux 2005.0. My gamepad is an Heroic HC 3100
> 2-axis, 4-button digital model with Turbo features.
>
> The CVS version string of ns558.c is:
> $Id: ns558.c,v 1.43 2002/01/24 19:23:21 vojtech Exp $
>
> My motherboard features a generic PC/ISA gameport at BIOS-selectable
> addresses of 0x200 or 0x208. I have built my kernel (using Gentoo's genkernel)
> to include the Joystick Interface, Generic PC/ISA Gameport and Analog
> Joystick support as modules which are loaded at boot by coldplug/hotplug
> logic.
>
> If I manually modprobe ns558 (which loads gameport), analog and joydev after
> boot my gameport is detected. If I let coldplug/hotplug load the modules at
> boot then ns558 fails to detect my gameport.
>
> If I unload, and then reload, ns558 using coldplug/hotplug at boot then ns558
> detects my gameport correctly. My module loading setup and dmesg output for a
> ns558 insert-remove-insert cycle are as follows:
>
> options analog map=gamepad
> above analog joydev
> pre-install analog modprobe -r ns558; modprobe ns558
>
> gameport: NS558 ISA Gameport is isa0200/gameport0, io 0x201, speed 806kHz
> pnp: Device 00:0a disabled.
> ns558: probe of 00:0a failed with error -16
> gameport: kgameportd exiting
> pnp: Device 00:0a activated.
> gameport: NS558 PnP Gameport is pnp00:0a/gameport0, io 0x200, speed 806kHz
> input: Analog 2-axis 4-button gamepad at pnp00:0a/gameport0 [TSC timer, 1786
> MHz clock, 1299 ns res]
>
> At https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-January/msg04967.html the
> same problem is reported for 2.6.10 on Fedora.
>
> Is a fix or workaround, other than what I'm doing already, available for this
> problem?
>
I assume this is some sort of ordering/dependency problem. I don't think
we're going to get onto fixing it for 2.6.13, I'm afraid.
It would really help if you could raise a bug report at bugzilla.kernel.org
so that it doesn't get forgotten. In that report, please identify the most
recent kernel version whcih worked correctly, if any.
Thanks.
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