Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:05:40 -0500 From: Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca> To: Kevin Downey <redchin@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Joy Message-ID: <20050317170540.GC28457@cnd.mcgill.ca> In-Reply-To: <1d3ed48c050317073844cffd00@mail.gmail.com> References: <1d3ed48c050316135165eb38bb@mail.gmail.com> <20050316215732.GA28457@cnd.mcgill.ca> <1d3ed48c050317073844cffd00@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mar 17, Kevin Downey wrote: > On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:57:32 -0500, Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca> wrote: > > On Mar 16, Kevin Downey wrote: > > > So, I got this cheap old used microsoft gamepad of some > > > kind(sidewinder?). It plugs into the "game port" on the sound card. I > > > figure all I will have to do is kldload a module or few to get it > > > running. So kldload joy and nada. Does device joy need to be in the > > > kernel? is joy.ko just a siren's song of impossibilities to lure the > > > ignorant? > > > > Been a long time since I've though about joy. Anyway, I seem > > to recall that you need a hint to enable joy since it's ISA and not > > PNP. Is it there? Is it commented out? (Away from my freebsd > > machine) > > > > --Mat > > I see. > I have not found a device.hints line for joy. Well, I have found > several "suggested" joy device.hints lines such as: > hints.joy.0.at="pci0" > hints.joy.0.at="isa" > I found these while mucking around with google. Now I am pretty sure > the ISA deal is not the way to go because, well, its a pci sound card. Gameports are wierd. For now, unless you card is emu10k1, then ISA *is* the way to go, but you need some more information for the kernel hint. I'll try to look it up tonight but more likely will have time on saturday. > But I have tried both of them anyway. Next I will try put device joy > in the kernel(instead of kldload joy). Now looking around in the BIOS > has lead me to associate the string "200-207H" with the gameport, and > it seems like this might be something useful, but gosh, I dunno. Using loadable modules should be exactly the same as compilling into the kernel, so, I would not recommend that. --Mat --
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