when I connect an USB gamepad it is correctly recognized, and some stuff is loaded. However, to make use of the device I have to manually modprobe joydev. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot system 2. plug in a gamepad 3. start a software that uses it Actual Results: the gamepad is not recognized because /dev/js* is not present Expected Results: joydev is loaded and creates /dev/js0 [I] sys-fs/udev Available versions: 104-r12 104-r13 ~111 ~111-r1 ~111-r3 ~112 ~112-r1 ~113 ~113-r1 ~113-r2 114 ~114-r1 ~114-r2 ~115 ~115-r1 [M]~115-r2 {selinux} Installed versions: 114(08:53:53 PM 08/27/2007)(-selinux) Portage 2.1.2.12 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r4, 2.6.22-gentoo-r5-src i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r5-src i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 420 @ 1.60GHz Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:30:09 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.21 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -msse3 -mfpmath=sse -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -msse3 -mfpmath=sse -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer nostrip sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LINGUAS="en en_US en_GB cs cs_CZ sk ja" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /opt/x4x-portage /opt/mabi" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa amr berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr cjk cli cracklib crypt cups d debug dga doc dri dvd dvdr dvi enca encode examples fbcon ffmpeg firefox fontconfig fortran gcj gdbm gif glitz gpm gtk gtk2 iconv ion3-voidupstreamsupport-truetype iontruetype ipv6 isdnlog javascript jpeg jpeg2k lm_sensors mad midi mmap mmx mozdevelop mozilla mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nodrm nptl nptlonly nsplugin objc ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python readline reflection ruby sdl session spl srt sse sse2 sse3 ssl svg test theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis x86 xml xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse joystick" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US en_GB cs cs_CZ sk ja" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 i915 ati radeon" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Please attach output of udevmonitor --env running in parallel to plugging the gamepad in, output of lsusb, and output of modinfo joydev. But in general I guess this is no bug in udev itself, but either a kernel one or a local problem of your system.
Created attachment 130494 [details] udevmonitor output The reason I think it's udev is because it used to work. But I also upgraded the kernel.
Bus 005 Device 008: ID 0583:a000 Padix Co., Ltd (Rockfire) Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 003 Device 005: ID 046d:c408 Logitech, Inc. Marble Mouse (4-button) Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 004: ID 046d:c309 Logitech, Inc. Internet Keyboard Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 015: ID 058f:6362 Alcor Micro Corp. Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 filename: /lib/modules/2.6.22-gentoo-r5-src/kernel/drivers/input/joydev.ko license: GPL description: Joystick device interfaces author: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@ucw.cz> srcversion: 46BE1E4FE75E0F634FE4A5F alias: input:b*v*p*e*-e*3,*k*r*a*6,*m*l*s*f*w* alias: input:b*v*p*e*-e*3,*k*r*a*8,*m*l*s*f*w* alias: input:b*v*p*e*-e*3,*k*r*a*0,*m*l*s*f*w* depends: vermagic: 2.6.22-gentoo-r5-src SMP mod_unload CORE2
Maybe the problem is in out modprobe.sh wrapper. Can you please attach output of sh -x /lib/udev/modprobe.sh input:b0003v0583pA000e0110-e0,1,3,k120,121,122,123,124,125,126,127,ra0,1,mlsfw and sh -x /lib/udev/modprobe.sh usb:v0583pA000d0100dc00dsc00dp00ic03isc00ip00 But as I looked into some wikis it seems joydev has to be added to some autoload-file, or loading it by a entry in modules.d/ files before/after some other input module.
Created attachment 130529 [details] output of the first command
Created attachment 130532 [details] output of the second command I have added the joydev to my autoload file, sure. But that's the work of udev to load the modules that are needed. Similarily there was time when I had to manually load ide-cd for cdroms (which was probably fixed by switching to libata where sr is loaded automatically) or sd for usb-storage (which certainly works for quite some time by now). All these cases are quite disappointing.
udev-115-r3 does no longer use a shell-wrapper around modprobe, so should also load joydev fine.
WFM w/ udev-115-r6 -> FIXED.
