Barton Bosch wrote: > the soundcard is a yamaha (ymf701 I think) which uses the > snd-ymfpci module. > > In reading some ALSA docs I found that the gameport needs to be > enabled at the alsa soundcard module's compile time The compile-time configuration is done automatically. To enable the joystick port, add "joystick_port=1" to the module options of snd-ymfpci, i.e., something like: options snd-ymfpci joystick_port=1 ...other options... HTH Clemens