SB PCI 128 + Sidewinder game pad (non usb)

[lets-eat-gary]

Hello,

I am newish (2 months) to Linux, and i am so impressed by mandrake linux 9.1, i have got all my hard ware to work (quake 3 is better in linux than windows now!) expect my microsoft gamepad (gameport version)

What do i have to do and how do i test it? I have looked at many forums and have never manged to find a solution

My specs :-

Athlon 1.4
Nvidia 3 ti200
Soundblaster PCI 128
Mandrake linux 9.1 (the best OS i have ever used)

Here is part of my lsmod output:

es1371 29032 1
soundcore 6276 0 [es1371]
ac97_codec 12488 0 [es1371]
gameport 3316 0 [es1371]

I have seen in a few foums to do - modprobe joydev and modprobe sidewinder, i have done these commands and my pad still doesn't work at all.

But here is part of my lsmod after i have issued those commands

sidewinder 9816 0 (unused)
joydev 7040 0 (unused)
input 5664 0 [sidewinder joydev]
es1371 29032 1
soundcore 6276 0 [es1371]
ac97_codec 12488 0 [es1371]
gameport 3316 0 [sidewinder es1371]

Apart from the gamepad issue my sound card works fine

Have anyone any ideas?

[SuperNu]

You can test a gamepad under Linux by opening up a console window and typing jstest /dev/js# where # is the gamepad you want to test. This is how I can test to see if my gamepad is working under Red Hat 9. The location might be different under Mandrake. You can also do a Google for Linux (http://www.google.com/linux) search and see if you can find more help there.

--SN

[lets-eat-gary]

SuperNu, thank you for your response

I tried what you said but i get the message

'jstest: command not found'

I have searched in so many forums to sort this out, but so far i've not had any luck
:(

Will changing to Mandrake 9.2 help?