[Techtalk] Help with joystick config please

[Marian Routh]

Hi, here I am with another puzzler.   Am running SuSE 8.0 and it 
automagically finds my usb MS Sidewinder Forcefeedback Pro.  However, 
it doesn't work.  I ran /usr/bin/jstest and /usr/bin/jscal on both 
/dev/js0 and /dev/input/js0 and got back "no such device".  I looked at 
the joystick how-to on the SuSE site and in the manual, but 
configuration is for gameport joysticks, not usb.  I logged in as root 
and ran modprobe -c --showconfig.  Okay, not that I really know what 
I'm looking at, but I'm _trying_.  Then I ran jstest again and got a 
response!?  The joystick worked in TuxRacer!  Logged in as myself and 
it still worked.  Now, to my limited knowledge, I didn't actually _do_ 
anything to make it work.

Then the Oldest Boy decided to boot into XP and play games.  Later, back 
to SuSE and the joystick doesn't work, same as before.  Repeat my silly 
modprobe steps, but that didn't do the trick.

This isn't a major deal for me, since I don't play games, but I love to 
have everything Working Properly and I love to learn.  Can you 
enlighten me, please?

Thanks!

Marian
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