I’ve tried visiting some tech sites, but to be blunt, they’re awfully crowded and hard to manage.
Not like my good ol’ trusty SD 
So, down to the question: I’ve got a Microsoft Sidewinder 2 gamepad, and it won’t work in ZSNES 1.36.
I’m running RedHat 9, which runs the 2.4.8 kernel, I believe. Also running the Gnome desktop environment, if that helps.
How can I get my SW to be recognized in Linux?
I should also add that this is a USB device (not 2.0)
First off, kernel 2.4.8? That’s rather old, you sure you don’t mean 2.4.18? (I’m too lazy to check RH’s site)
Anyway, I did a quick search on http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/index.php (the best place to find out about usb and Linux) and it looks like the Microsoft Sidewinder works. The same modules might work for the Microsoft Sidewinder 2
doublechecks kernel version
Yes, it is 2.4.18. Sorry bout that
I figure that it has to be included in the distro (come on, this is a brand-new distro).
I need to recompile the kernel. I’m running redhat 9.0, and for some reason, make menuconfig , or any flavors of it won’t work. Apparently, with RH9 the kernel isn’t stored in /usr/src
Tell me how to compile this kernel, cogflabbit!
Well, I haven’t used RH sense 6.2 but it should be a simple make mrproper menuconfig &&make bzImage modules modules_install, then copy the kernel from arch/i386/boot/bzImage to /boot.
If that doesn’t work then I’m afraid you’ll need to find a RH expert
HTH
At the risk of sounding insulting, do you even have the kernel source? It’s not installed by default on many distros, and I haven’t had much luck with the various package managers installing it for me. I download mine manually from kernel.org (like most do, I suppose).
Can’t help on the joystick front - never bothered to install one. 
Nanoda- Heh, yeah. I figured that out about three seconds after I posted. Silly me. I used RH7.1 a year ago, and just recently got up to RH9 (fresh install)
I didn’t realize that they took out the kernel source.
Update: Alright, I’m running kernel 2.4.20 now, and still no luck. I’ve customized it to all hell, but still no USB joypad support.
Still no news on and independent project? I have a hard time believing one of the most popular joypads on the market has no support.
I just found this via google: http://madfab.free.fr/ff/
It looks like someone is working on it but the patch hasn’t been ported to 2.4.20. The 2.4.19 patch might work though.
Good luck.
Thanks for the link, I’ve got one of those, too!
However, it looks like we’re having a bit of a communication error. Sorry that Microsoft uses Sidewidner to describe all of their products.
This is what everyone thinks I have. I’ve got one of these too, but I don’t care. This is NOT what I’m talking about.
And now, for the obligatory emoticon. Without it, I come across as an asshole. :dubious:
Keep in mind that RedHat tweaks the kernel in their own special way (most distros do this). You will not quite get the same kernel from compiling the “official” Linux kernel tree as you will get from using the one that came with your distro. If you want to have things be as “RedHattish” as possible start with one of the config files in /usr/src/linux/configs. The kernel source itself will be called something like kernel-source-2.4.18-3.rpm on RedHat. Of course the version number may be different.
Alright, I’m gettin tired of Red Hat. Slackware ahoy!
what Dr. Zoidberg sez. Red Hat 9 especially has a lot of backported code from the 2.5.x development kernels. If you want to recompile, it’s best to use their source tree to do it.
OTOH, Slackware is good too, and always comes with basically unmodified kernel source plus a load of driver modules. The kernel that Slackware 9.0 is based on has exactly one patch, to fix a security issue that occurred just as it was shipping.