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+=======================================
+Analog Joystick Support on ALSA Drivers
+=======================================
+
+Oct. 14, 2003
+
+Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
+
+General
+-------
+
+First of all, you need to enable GAMEPORT support on Linux kernel for
+using a joystick with the ALSA driver. For the details of gameport
+support, refer to Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
+
+The joystick support of ALSA drivers is different between ISA and PCI
+cards. In the case of ISA (PnP) cards, it's usually handled by the
+independent module (ns558). Meanwhile, the ALSA PCI drivers have the
+built-in gameport support. Hence, when the ALSA PCI driver is built
+in the kernel, CONFIG_GAMEPORT must be 'y', too. Otherwise, the
+gameport support on that card will be (silently) disabled.
+
+Some adapter modules probe the physical connection of the device at
+the load time. It'd be safer to plug in the joystick device before
+loading the module.
+
+
+PCI Cards
+---------
+
+For PCI cards, the joystick is enabled when the appropriate module
+option is specified. Some drivers don't need options, and the
+joystick support is always enabled. In the former ALSA version, there
+was a dynamic control API for the joystick activation. It was
+changed, however, to the static module options because of the system
+stability and the resource management.
+
+The following PCI drivers support the joystick natively.
+
+============== ============= ============================================
+Driver Module Option Available Values
+============== ============= ============================================
+als4000 joystick_port 0 = disable (default), 1 = auto-detect,
+ manual: any address (e.g. 0x200)
+au88x0 N/A N/A
+azf3328 joystick 0 = disable, 1 = enable, -1 = auto (default)
+ens1370 joystick 0 = disable (default), 1 = enable
+ens1371 joystick_port 0 = disable (default), 1 = auto-detect,
+ manual: 0x200, 0x208, 0x210, 0x218
+cmipci joystick_port 0 = disable (default), 1 = auto-detect,
+ manual: any address (e.g. 0x200)
+cs4281 N/A N/A
+cs46xx N/A N/A
+es1938 N/A N/A
+es1968 joystick 0 = disable (default), 1 = enable
+sonicvibes N/A N/A
+trident N/A N/A
+via82xx [#f1]_ joystick 0 = disable (default), 1 = enable
+ymfpci joystick_port 0 = disable (default), 1 = auto-detect,
+ manual: 0x201, 0x202, 0x204, 0x205 [#f2]_
+============== ============= ============================================
+
+.. [#f1] VIA686A/B only
+.. [#f2] With YMF744/754 chips, the port address can be chosen arbitrarily
+
+The following drivers don't support gameport natively, but there are
+additional modules. Load the corresponding module to add the gameport
+support.
+
+======= =================
+Driver Additional Module
+======= =================
+emu10k1 emu10k1-gp
+fm801 fm801-gp
+======= =================
+
+Note: the "pcigame" and "cs461x" modules are for the OSS drivers only.
+These ALSA drivers (cs46xx, trident and au88x0) have the
+built-in gameport support.
+
+As mentioned above, ALSA PCI drivers have the built-in gameport
+support, so you don't have to load ns558 module. Just load "joydev"
+and the appropriate adapter module (e.g. "analog").
+
+
+ISA Cards
+---------
+
+ALSA ISA drivers don't have the built-in gameport support.
+Instead, you need to load "ns558" module in addition to "joydev" and
+the adapter module (e.g. "analog").