[Kaitain]

Originally Posted by piccoLEW

ookay..
"lets not bicker and argue.."

my next problem getting microsoft sidewinder to work.. i've looked around the web a bit and i've come across an rpm which hasn't done anything for me,
and the "linux input drivers" page well, i got lost trying to follow the not-so-idiot-friendly instructions and most of the games i wanna play require use of a joystick, before i can get it to work in wine i need linux to know there is a joystick there...

Joystick support is compiled as a kernel module usually. I would be surprised if Mandrake hadn't compiled it, though it would not surprise me in the slightest to learn that they hadn't installed it. What comes up if you search for "joystick" in MCC -> Install Software?

Otherwise you have 2 options: either tell me what version of kernel, gcc and glibc you're using, and I'll try to build it all as a module, or if it's one of those "mixed" arrangements, in which support must be enabled in the kernel, then modules built for each driver, then you're gonna have to learn how to build your own kernel

Quick question: do you have a file called /proc/config.gz ?