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2 Analog Joystick Support on ALSA Drivers
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4
5 Oct. 14, 2003
6
7 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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9 General
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11
12 First of all, you need to enable GAMEPORT supp
13 using a joystick with the ALSA driver. For th
14 support, refer to Documentation/input/joydev/j
15
16 The joystick support of ALSA drivers is differ
17 cards. In the case of ISA (PnP) cards, it's u
18 independent module (ns558). Meanwhile, the AL
19 built-in gameport support. Hence, when the AL
20 in the kernel, CONFIG_GAMEPORT must be 'y', to
21 gameport support on that card will be (silentl
22
23 Some adapter modules probe the physical connec
24 the load time. It'd be safer to plug in the j
25 loading the module.
26
27
28 PCI Cards
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30
31 For PCI cards, the joystick is enabled when th
32 option is specified. Some drivers don't need
33 joystick support is always enabled. In the fo
34 was a dynamic control API for the joystick act
35 changed, however, to the static module options
36 stability and the resource management.
37
38 The following PCI drivers support the joystick
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41 Driver Module Option Available Valu
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43 als4000 joystick_port 0 = disable (d
44 manual: any ad
45 au88x0 N/A N/A
46 azf3328 joystick 0 = disable, 1
47 ens1370 joystick 0 = disable (d
48 ens1371 joystick_port 0 = disable (d
49 manual: 0x200,
50 cmipci joystick_port 0 = disable (d
51 manual: any ad
52 cs4281 N/A N/A
53 cs46xx N/A N/A
54 es1938 N/A N/A
55 es1968 joystick 0 = disable (d
56 sonicvibes N/A N/A
57 trident N/A N/A
58 via82xx [#f1]_ joystick 0 = disable (d
59 ymfpci joystick_port 0 = disable (d
60 manual: 0x201,
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62
63 .. [#f1] VIA686A/B only
64 .. [#f2] With YMF744/754 chips, the port addre
65
66 The following drivers don't support gameport n
67 additional modules. Load the corresponding mo
68 support.
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71 Driver Additional Module
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73 emu10k1 emu10k1-gp
74 fm801 fm801-gp
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76
77 Note: the "pcigame" and "cs461x" modules are f
78 These ALSA drivers (cs46xx, trident and au88x0
79 built-in gameport support.
80
81 As mentioned above, ALSA PCI drivers have the
82 support, so you don't have to load ns558 modul
83 and the appropriate adapter module (e.g. "anal
84
85
86 ISA Cards
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89 ALSA ISA drivers don't have the built-in gamep
90 Instead, you need to load "ns558" module in ad
91 the adapter module (e.g. "analog").
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