Fedora Games Spin - Joystick / Gamepad support

[Egon Kastelijn]

Hi,

I downloaded and started the Fedora Games Spin, but I can not get my
gamepad to work.

I understand that the joystick support was recently moved to the
kernel-modules-extra RPM, and I think that the Games Spin does not contain
this.
(see here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=815168 )

Is there some way the kernel-modules-extra package can be added to the
Fedora Games Spin, and that the boot does a 'modprobe joydev' ?

FYI: Under a normal Fedora 17 installation the gamepad works fine after a
'modprobe joydev', so it's not a hardware problem. ;)

kind regards,

Egon

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 17:02:05 +0200,
   Egon Kastelijn  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I downloaded and started the Fedora Games Spin, but I can not get my
> gamepad to work.
>
> I understand that the joystick support was recently moved to the
> kernel-modules-extra RPM, and I think that the Games Spin does not contain
> this.
> (see here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=815168 )
>
> Is there some way the kernel-modules-extra package can be added to the
> Fedora Games Spin, and that the boot does a 'modprobe joydev' ?
>
> FYI: Under a normal Fedora 17 installation the gamepad works fine after a
> 'modprobe joydev', so it's not a hardware problem. ;)
>
> kind regards,

I can look at doing this. I can add kernel-modules-extra. I don't know if 
I need to worry about PAE, but I don't think we use PAE for live 
images.

I have figured out which file should get tweaked to load the module. I 
looked into it a while back and was looking at doing a package to add it. 
That didn't happen, but I can do that in post.

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 17:02:05 +0200,
   Egon Kastelijn  wrote:
> Is there some way the kernel-modules-extra package can be added to the
> Fedora Games Spin, and that the boot does a 'modprobe joydev' ?

This is being tracked in bug 841938.