Hello Rui,
I don't know if this will help or not.
I am unable to get my Gravis Xterminator to work.
With joystick driver in the old 2.2.12 kernel and the previous emu10k1
driver I would have the following in /proc/ioports
0200-0201 joy-gravis
e800-e81f emu10k1
ec00-ec07 emu10k1 joystick
and the joystick would work.
With the current emu10k1 driver and the joystick driver in the 2.2.14
kernel it does not create the 0201-0201 joy-gravis in ioports and the
joy-gravis module report device or resource busy when you try to load it.
Also the joy-gravis module does not accept any options in conf.modules to
tell it where the joystick port is at (ie ec01 instead of 201.)
Thursday, March 30, 2000, 19:15:16, you wrote:
RS> Brian Gerst wrote:
>>
>> Rui Sousa wrote:
>> > The sound card has a register to enable the joystick port so I need to know
>> > where the sound card IO ports begin (and maybe to make use of a spinlock that
>> > serializes hardware registers access).
>> >
>> > Giving it a little more thought I will probably just set the register from the
>> > sound card initialization, it's much easier and should work just fine...
>>
>> The joystick port on the SBLive is already enabled by default, it just
>> is not located at the legacy address (0x201). The register you speak of
>> I am guessing mirrors the port at 0x201, but this is only for DOS
>> compatability and is unnecessary.
RS> No. There is another register on the sound card (HCFG_JOYENABLE - Internal joystick enable)
RS> which is enabled if the chip revision is greater than 6. This is what is in the source
RS> and I whithout any documentation from Creative I don't really now what it
RS> does.
RS> The writing to the PCI configuration space register was another issue and
RS> I stopped doing it. I figured out that, as you say, it was unnecessary.
RS> My question now is (with the present unmodified joystick drivers, and if the sound
RS> card driver initializes the joystick device and reserves the IO ports) if the only
RS> thing needed to get the joystick working is to pass the IO port in the module options?
RS> In my case the joystick is at IO ports eff0 (the actual PCI register value is eff1), does a:
RS> insmod joy-analog js_an=eff0,x
RS> suffice?
>> I have a patch for the joystick driver at
>> http://quark.vpplus.com/~bgerst/linux/diff-gameport-99p1.gz which can
>> autodetect PCI and PnP gameports. This is probably what you are looking
>> for.
RS> The part of auto detection and IO ports reservation (request_region()) is
RS> on the sound card driver, so there is a bit of a conflict here. If your
RS> patches make it into the kernel then I'll remove the code from the sound card
RS> driver. Your solution is definitely more general and more integrated with the
RS> joystick drivers.
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