| Preface. |
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| This is a new low-level driver to support analog joystick attached to |
| Crystal SoundFusion CS4610/CS4612/CS4615. This code is based upon |
| Vortex/Solo drivers as an example of decoration style, and ALSA |
| 0.5.8a kernel drivers as an chipset documentation and samples. |
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| This version does not have cooked mode support; the basic code |
| is present here, but have not tested completely. The button analysis |
| is completed in this mode, but the axis movement is not. |
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| Raw mode works fine with analog joystick front-end driver and cs461x |
| driver as a backend. I've tested this driver with CS4610, 4-axis and |
| 4-button joystick; I mean the jstest utility. Also I've tried to |
| play in xracer game using joystick, and the result is better than |
| keyboard only mode. |
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| The sensitivity and calibrate quality have not been tested; the two |
| reasons are performed: the same hardware cannot work under Win95 (blue |
| screen in VJOYD); I have no documentation on my chip; and the existing |
| behavior in my case was not raised the requirement of joystick calibration. |
| So the driver have no code to perform hardware related calibration. |
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| The patch contains minor changes of Config.in and Makefile files. All |
| needed code have been moved to one separate file cs461x.c like ns558.c |
| This driver have the basic support for PCI devices only; there is no |
| ISA or PnP ISA cards supported. AFAIK the ns558 have support for Crystal |
| ISA and PnP ISA series. |
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| The driver works with ALSA drivers simultaneously. For example, the xracer |
| uses joystick as input device and PCM device as sound output in one time. |
| There are no sound or input collisions detected. The source code have |
| comments about them; but I've found the joystick can be initialized |
| separately of ALSA modules. So, you can use only one joystick driver |
| without ALSA drivers. The ALSA drivers are not needed to compile or |
| run this driver. |
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| There are no debug information print have been placed in source, and no |
| specific options required to work this driver. The found chipset parameters |
| are printed via printk(KERN_INFO "..."), see the /var/log/messages to |
| inspect cs461x: prefixed messages to determine possible card detection |
| errors. |
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| Regards, |
| Viktor |