Joystick to work

[Timothy Beck <tim mail dragon-designs net>]

Okay, here's a silly question.

I've ben looking alot for a simple explaination to getting a joy stick
to work on my redhat box.

Nobody has given a straight forward anwser in anything I've read.

I've tryed modprobe, modprobe -k with joydev, with analog and so on,
even gameport.

I have a pci 128 from soundblaster, that has the 5880 audioPCI, Ensoniq
es1371 chip set. Funny thing, I try to modprob the 5880 and that gives
me error msgs. 

I do the modprobe, nothing comes back unless of course there is an
error. 

The required files are there in /dev - js0 js1 and so on, even the
links.. the program they say to test with, the jstest, keeps giving
errors.

This shouldn't be this hard, I've had easier times figuring out harder
question...lol This one has become a real head scratcher.

And Ideas?? Any help or guide to better step by step would be
appreciated. I'm all out of ideas for the general info..;-)

Thanks, 

Tim