There's a package called linux-joystick that might have the right modprobe drivers for you.

After you plugged it in, try su'ing to root and using modprobe hid and modprobe joypad.

You may also need the right plugin for the emulator to get it to work.

Oke... I have tried with your instuction... after installing the package - pluged my gamepad to LPT1, testing the plugins on the pcsxr Joystick Option.... and this the result:

This from modprobe command.

# modeprobe hid
modprobe: module hid not found in modules.dep
# modprobe joypad
modprobe: module joypad not found in modules.dep

This from pcsxr plugin test:

Failed to initializing /dev/input/j0     (something like this)

You're using cooking right? Which copy exactly? The one provided by the main site or the one found at http://mirror.slitaz.org/iso/undigest/ ?

The one provided by the website uses an older kernel (2.6.34) than the undigested copy (2.6.36). This tends to make the modprobe drivers you install from the repository not work because they're all made for the newer kernel 2.6.36.

You can however still get the older package here: http://arch-live.isawsome.net/devel/kernel-slitaz/linux-joystick-2.6.34.tazpkg - which should help avoid the situation of having to reinstall SliTaz cooking again.

Btw, you install that package with the tazpkg install command.

The following blog entry might also be of interest to you: http://ayinat.blogspot.com/2007/07/using-parallel-port-joypadjoystick-with.html

If all else fails, you could also try the older port of the emulator I converted over for Slitaz 3 (stable) @ http://www.trixarian.za.net/?Projects:SliTaz

Yes..., I use cooking version (slitaz-cooking-4in1.iso) on my hda2, I download from the mirror:
http://mirror.slitaz.org/iso/cooking/flavors/

And always updated to. (On my hda1 is Slitaz-3.0)

Yes that's also very interesting to try...
(http://ayinat.blogspot.com/2007/07/using-parallel-port-joypadjoystick-with.html)

and the result I will post again.

Yes i have test your pcsx-df (http://www.trixarian.za.net/downloads/pcsx-df-1.816.tazpkg)
same as with pcsxr-svn and no any problems with my game collection.

The 4-in-1 should be unaffected by the bug, so it's safe to use the cooking repository's packages without having to worry. I think it was only the base flavor that got affected by the use of the older kernel.

BTW, thanks for testing that package - I haven't really tested it yet to make sure it can run all the games :P

Ok... this a result:

# rmmod lp
rmmod: can't unload 'lp': unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter

# modprobe gamecon map=0,7
modprobe: module gamecon not found in modules.dep

And I'm very confused with the "modprobe gamecon map=0.7" command. Where gamecon.c is the source-code a part of the kernel-source-code files and I found in /usr/src/linux-2.6.36/drivers/input/joystick folder. And the "modprobe" command is for loaded the kernel modules have been installed in /lib/modules/2.6.36-slitaz/kernel/ folders with FILE_NAME.ko or FILE_NAME.ko.gz.

Please give me the output of uname -a
I have a really bad feeling that your stuck with a cooking version built on kernel 2.6.34

tux@slitaz:~$ uname -a
Linux slitaz 2.6.36-slitaz #2 SMP Sat Dec 18 06:22:01 CET 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

and this article explains when gamecon kernel module is not supported by the kernel and please read the Linux section. http://www.raphnet.net/electronique/psx_adaptor/psx_adaptor_en.php

Ok, here's what we get when we install slitaz's modules:
/lib/modules/2.6.36-slitaz/kernel/drivers/input/gameport
/lib/modules/2.6.36-slitaz/kernel/drivers/input/gameport/emu10k1-gp.ko.gz
/lib/modules/2.6.36-slitaz/kernel/drivers/input/gameport/ns558.ko.gz
/lib/modules/2.6.36-slitaz/kernel/drivers/input/input-polldev.ko.gz
/lib/modules/2.6.36-slitaz/kernel/drivers/input/joystick
/lib/modules/2.6.36-slitaz/kernel/drivers/input/joystick/analog.ko.gz
/lib/modules/2.6.36-slitaz/kernel/drivers/input/joystick/sidewinder.ko.gz
/lib/modules/2.6.36-slitaz/kernel/drivers/input/joystick/xpad.ko.gz

So maybe try modprobe -v gameport, modprobe -v emu10k1-gp, modprobe -v ns558, modprobe -v input-polldev, modprobe -v joystick, modprobe -v analog, modprobe -v sidewinder or modprobe -v xpad and see if that works.