On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 11:12, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At 28 Apr 2002 20:13:17 -0500, > Richard Rowell wrote: > > > > I'm trying to figure out how to get my joystick working with my new MB > > (Epox 8KHA+). With my old MB I had to enable the joystick support in my > > (OSS) soundcard module, then gameport.o + ns558.o + sidewinder.o and it > > would work. However with the new MB ns558 wont load. I did a modinfo > > on the sound card module (snd-via8233) but I do not see an option to > > enable the gameport. So how do I enable it through ALSA? > > joystick is not supported on the ALSA via8233 driver yet. > you can copy the code from via686 driver, since they are quite > similar.
I went through the 686 driver and copied all of the mpu and joystick stuff over AFAICT. However ns558 still doesn't load with my hacked driver. I'm not even sure that ns558 is supposed to load... Unfortunately I am not a kernel hacker. Even if I was I do not have any documentation on the inner-workings of the card... I'm eager to learn though. Does anyone know where a gentle tutorial into the world of developing alsa kernel drivers? How about technical info on the 8233? Or is there a brave soul willing to review my hack and help me get it working?
