Ive soldered everything up, installed the driver, ran the driver with “sudo modprobe mk_arcade_joystick_rpi map=1” , and tested it successfully with “jstest /dev/input/JS3”.
but adding “mk_arcade_joystick_rpi map=1” into /etc/modules wont start the joystick at boot time. it only gets recognized when i run the sudo modprobe command manually, which makes me think i messed up in the /etc/modules config.
/etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored. Parameters can be specified after the module name.
snd-bcm2835
#i2c-bcm2708
#i2c-dev
mk_arcade_joystick_rpi map=1grem75 on reddit helped me to “kinda” get the joystick to run at boot time by creating a joystick.conf file in /etc/modprobe.d/ , and put the line
options mk_arcade_joystick_rpi map=1 in there, and just have the module name without parameter in /etc/modules, like this:
snd-bcm2835
#i2c-bcm2708
#i2c-dev
mk_arcade_joystick_rpi
well, the joystick runs now at boot time, but the joystick up switch is getting triggered like a rapid fire button without even touching it. i have even de-soldered it to see if it is related to it.
Axes: 0: 0 1: 0 Buttons: 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:
Axes: 0: 0 1:-32767 Buttons: 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:
Axes: 0: 0 1: 0 Buttons: 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:
Axes: 0: 0 1:-32767 Buttons: 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:
Axes: 0: 0 1: 0 Buttons: 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:
Axes: 0: 0 1:-32767 Buttons: 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:when i remove /etc/modprobe.d/joystick.conf, and load the joystick manually with “sudo modprobe mk_arcade_joystick_rpi map=1” , the joystick behaves normaly, i can even play games with it.
so how is any of this related to the weird behavior the joystick is showing, and how would i get it properly to work at boot time?