Bug 459554

Summary: Sidewinder driver detects 4 gamepads as 2 incorrect devices.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Fred Wittekind IV <rom>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Fred Wittekind IV 2008-08-20 00:55:30 UTC
Created attachment 314597 [details]
dmesg after modprobe sidewinder with 2 gamepads connected

Description of problem:
Connecting 2 Sidewinder gamepads works as expected, connecting 4 sometimes results in the 4 gamepads being detected as 2 Microsoft SideWinder FreeStyle Pro

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.x86_64
Microsoft SideWinder GamePad Part No 90873

How reproducible:
sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Connect 4 daisy chained Microsoft SideWinder GamePad
2. modprobe sidewinder
3. dmesg
  
Actual results:
Detected 2 Microsoft SideWinder FreeStyle Pro devices

Expected results:
Detect 4 Microsoft SideWinder GamePad devices

Additional info:
I built a version of sidewinder.c with the two debug defines enabled, attaching dmesg output.  Get same result from kernel module that is  not modified, minus the useful debug information.

Comment 1 Fred Wittekind IV 2008-08-20 00:56:52 UTC
Created attachment 314598 [details]
 dmesg after modprobe sidewinder with 4 gamepads connected

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Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2009-07-14 14:20:50 UTC
Fedora 9 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-07-10. Fedora 9 is 
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