Old school (non-usb) joystick in Ubuntu 11.10
From Finninday
We got a used joystick with a d-sub connector and I'm trying to make it work with Ubuntu 11.10.
I had to buy a sound card that had a game port. I got a Diamond XS51 sound card that shows up like this in lspci:
01:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10) Subsystem: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16 I/O ports at c000 [size=256] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 Kernel driver in use: C-Media PCI Kernel modules: snd-cmipci
I now have these modules installed:
Module Size Used by analog 17399 0 sidewinder 21041 0 ns558 12654 0 snd_cmipci 35513 2 gameport 15060 5 analog,sidewinder,ns558,snd_cmipci snd_opl3_lib 18863 1 snd_cmipci snd_mpu401_uart 13865 1 snd_cmipci nfs 297750 0 lockd 78804 1 nfs fscache 50674 1 nfs auth_rpcgss 39545 1 nfs nfs_acl 12771 1 nfs sunrpc 205330 7 nfs,lockd,auth_rpcgss,nfs_acl rfcomm 38408 0 bnep 17923 2 bluetooth 148839 8 rfcomm,bnep pci_stub 12550 1 vboxpci 22882 0 vboxnetadp 13328 0 vboxnetflt 27211 0 vboxdrv 251814 3 vboxpci,vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt autofs4 27924 6 vesafb 13489 1 nvidia 10390874 40 snd_intel8x0 33318 2 snd_ac97_codec 106082 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_usb_audio 100880 0 ac97_bus 12642 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm 80468 4 snd_cmipci,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_usb_audio snd_hwdep 13276 2 snd_opl3_lib,snd_usb_audio snd_usbmidi_lib 24558 1 snd_usb_audio snd_seq_midi 13132 0 joydev 17393 0 snd_rawmidi 25241 3 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event 14475 1 snd_seq_midi uvcvideo 67271 0 videodev 85626 1 uvcvideo snd_seq 51567 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event snd_timer 28932 3 snd_opl3_lib,snd_pcm,snd_seq snd_seq_device 14172 4 snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq binfmt_misc 17292 1 snd 55902 21 snd_cmipci,snd_opl3_lib,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_usb_audio,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device soundcore 12600 1 snd snd_page_alloc 14115 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm ppdev 12849 0 shpchp 32356 0 serio_raw 12990 0 i2c_nforce2 12906 0 parport_pc 32114 1 lp 17455 0 parport 40930 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp usbhid 41905 0 hid 77367 1 usbhid forcedeth 58103 0 pata_amd 13753 2 floppy 60310 0
Sound works on the new sound card. That didn't take any effort. But I can't get the joystick to be visible.
I've tried jstest, which seems to misidentify the device:
root@merkli:~# jstest /dev/input/js0 Driver version is 2.1.0. Joystick (Chicony USB Gaming Keyboard Pro) has 0 axes () and 11 buttons (BtnX, BtnY, BtnZ, BtnTL, BtnTR, BtnTL2, BtnTR2, BtnSelect, BtnStart, BtnMode, BtnThumbL). Testing ... (interrupt to exit) Buttons: 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off 7:off 8:off 9:off 1Buttons: 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off 7:off 8:off 9:off 1Buttons: 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off 7:off 8:off 9:off 1Buttons: 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off 7:off 8:off 9:off 1Buttons: 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off 7:off 8:off 9:off 1Buttons: 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off 7:off 8:off 9:off 1Buttons: 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off 7:off 8:off 9:off 1Buttons: 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off 7:off 8:off 9:off 1Buttons: 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off 7:off 8:off 9:off 1Buttons: 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off 7:off 8:off 9:off 1Buttons: 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off 7:off 8:off 9:off 10:off ^C
It isn't USB and it isn't a keyboard. It might be Chicony... the joystick doesn't have any brand or model written on it. And the joystick might not be working. But I think it is unlikely that all the switches and pots in it would all fail together.
It is much more likely that I don't know which device or module is required.
