Getting a gravis gamepad pro (gameport) to work

Lewis Futrell silicon.vampire at gmail.com
Mon May 2 03:24:37 UTC 2005


Further developments

Here is the current situation:

When the system boots, the only joystick related modules loaded is
gameport and analog.  I do the following under su (for ease of typing)

modprobe joydev
modporbe ns558

This actually created the /dev/input/js0 and KDE reports it as a 2
axis, 4 button joystick (as per the analog driver).  I cat
/dev/input/js0 and get about 4 garbage characters, but nothing else. 
KDE joystick unit does not report any buttons or axis activity though
it lists a joystick.  Next steps

modprobe -r analog
modprobe grip (with the gravis game pad pro attached)

Kubuntu hard locks at this point.  Thankfully I have another Gravis
joystick (Xterminator Digital).  So I remove the gamepad pro and put
on the Xterminator.  Reboot the system and once back into the console
under su I do the following:

modprobe -r analog
modprobe joydev
modprobe grip
modprobe ns558

As soon as I modprobe the ns558, then /dev/input/js0 is created.  cat
/dev/input/js0 results in the same 4 garbage characters but no input
from the joystick.  KDE's Joystick utility reports the joystick
properly, but again, no input from the joystick.  I'm getting rather
frustrated at this point.

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