Gameport with Intel 810 chipset

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Gameport with Intel 810 chipset

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[PROBLEM]
I wanted to use the gameport of an onboard AC97 soundcard, based on an Intel i810 chipset (at least that's the name of the modules that knoppix loaded).
I've tried all gameport driver modules in kernel/drivers/input/gameport, but none of them said that it found my gameport. :(


[SOLUTION]
After sleeping over this problem, I had the idea to check the BIOS if the gameport's activated at all. Guess what: it was disabled.

I've simply enabled it, set the default IO base address to 0x201, bootet Knoppix and executed:

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modprobe joydev
modprobe ns558
modprobe analog
...checked dmesg and: voila! It found my gameport and correctly initialized /dev/js0 for my gamepad!
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