Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:38:18 +0000 From: Kevin Downey <redchin@gmail.com> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Joy Message-ID: <1d3ed48c050317073844cffd00@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050316215732.GA28457@cnd.mcgill.ca> References: <1d3ed48c050316135165eb38bb@mail.gmail.com> <20050316215732.GA28457@cnd.mcgill.ca>
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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. 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. -- What the large print giveth, the small print taketh away
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