Okay, with the help of my room mate on this problem, we have come up
with a temporary work around. The problem seems to be with Xorg. Hal
seems to detect the joystick properly, and passes the device on to Xorg.
Everybody is happy, until Xorg wrongly configures the joystick as a
mouse. The fix is to force X NOT to auto configure any devices, and
manually configure the joystick in your Xorg. However the result of
this, has been that I have lost functionality on my media keys on my
keyboard. not too big a deal to me, since I can reach the volume on my
speakers easily..... ;) So anyway, here comes the work around:
1. install the xserver joystick input driver:
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-joystick
2. Manually edit the xorg.conf to remove auto detection, setup a device for the
joystick and include it in the server layout.
* see attached xorg.conf
3. Restart x and be happy. ;)
** Attachment added: "This is the edited version of my xorg.conf"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18258707/xorg.conf
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Joystick detected as mouse, crashes X
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/274203
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