On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 10:51 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > What's the situation with USB joystick support in FC? Poking into kernel > modules I see a couple of modules for specific USB joystick brands, but > nothing that looks like a generic USB joystick driver. > > My laptop has no traditional joystick port, only USB ports. Anyone here > picked up any run-of-the-mill USB joystick device recently, and gotten it to > work? > > > -- Just make sure that the 'joydev' (modprobe joydev) module is loaded and it should just work.. I use a CH Products 568 Combatstick USB, and it works fine here on FC5. I did have some trouble with RHEL4, when they did some changes to the udev rules, putting the device in /dev/input/ where it should have been placed in /dev/. (As some/most games couldn't find the joystick in the new location). I was able to change the udev rule to put it back where it belonged. And it worked. With FC5 I didn't need to do that at all.. SOME older joystick will/may need another module loaded for them to work. You may need to force that module to load manually. Since I don't know what make and model of joystick your referring to I can't help anymore than this.. If your running KDE, you can go to Control Centre/Peripherals/joystick, and you can test it in there.. (It will even tell you where it was found as well) Wolf
