unfortunately 32 bit apps don't see the joysticks on a 64 bit system. this prevents one playing X-Plane (http://www.x-plane.com/) or other 32-bit games with joysticks. this is a know issue, and already raised several times: http://readlist.com/lists/vger.kernel.org/linux-kernel/28/144411.html http://www.brettcsmith.org/wiki/wiki.cgi?action=browse&diff=1&id=OzyComputer/Joystick unfortunately this is still not fixed in the mainline kernel. it would be nice to have this in gentoo-sources though, so that at least gentoo users can play these games nicely :) the following patch solves the problem: diff -Naur linux-2.6.22-suspend2-r2/fs/compat_ioctl.c linux-2.6.22-suspend2-r2-joystick/fs/compat_ioctl.c --- linux-2.6.22-suspend2-r2/fs/compat_ioctl.c 2007-12-22 14:08:14.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.22-suspend2-r2-joystick/fs/compat_ioctl.c 2007-12-22 14:07:54.000000000 +0100 @@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ * ioctls. */ +#include <linux/joystick.h> + #include <linux/types.h> #include <linux/compat.h> #include <linux/kernel.h> @@ -3259,6 +3261,12 @@ COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(VIDEO_GET_SIZE) COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(VIDEO_GET_FRAME_RATE) +/* joystick */ +COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(JSIOCGVERSION) +COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(JSIOCGAXES) +COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(JSIOCGBUTTONS) +COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(JSIOCGNAME(0x200)) /* for X-Plane 8.03 */ + /* now things that need handlers */ HANDLE_IOCTL(MEMREADOOB32, mtd_rw_oob) HANDLE_IOCTL(MEMWRITEOOB32, mtd_rw_oob) Reproducible: Always
According to our policy, we generally do not put patches into gentoo-sources that have not been accepted upstream. I see this was resubmitted upstream at: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/22/73 but this patch was rejected previously in 2005 for using obsolete methods: http://readlist.com/lists/vger.kernel.org/linux-kernel/28/144445.html
I see. I've also submitted the patch upstream, see here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9652
Will track the upstream bug report.
