[mythtv-users] Game controller recommendations?

[Joe Votour]

Well, first of all:
1. Do you have a gamepad port on your soundcard?
2. If so, are you able to get it working with Linux?

I ask these questions because for the life of me, I
couldn't get a gameport working with a CMI8738 onboard
audio, or with a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz card. 
However, with the SoundBlaster Live 5.1 in my MythTV
machine, I can get it working, no problem.

In my area, there's a store called Surplus Computers
(located in Santa Clara, CA), they sell some things at
great prices.  Because I was able to get my gameport
working, I was able to get some Microsoft Sidewinder
gamepads for $5 each.  Best of all, the Linux
Sidewinder driver allows for chaining the Sidewinders
in digital mode, and they have 10 buttons each.

-- Joe

--- "Joseph A. Caputo" <jcaputo1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Does anybody out there who's using MythGame w/XMame
> have any recommendations 
> on decent game controllers?  I'm not looking for
> anything fancy; my 
> priorities are (in order): (1) price (2) number of
> buttons (3) ease of 
> setup/kernel compatibility.  I saw a couple of basic
> USB gamepads recently 
> for $5, but I held off because I wanted to do some
> research first.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> JAc
> 
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