Hi, Stating with Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and due to changes in Xorg, each model of joystick needs a special file to be recognised properly. For the moment 8.10 doesn't ship with these files, and thus your joystick shouldn't be working anymore (instead, it should move the mouse cursor, sometimes preventing the use of the mouse until you unplug the joystick).
Since each joystick model is different, in order to provide these fdi files we need users to provide a little information about their joystick model - else your joystick may never be supported. If you are the owner of a joystick (or any game input device, joypad, dance mat, etc...), can borrow somebody's joystick for 5 minutes or can go to a friend that has a joystick, you would be a great help if you could check if your joypad is listed on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Joystick_lshal_outputs_done (not many at the moment), and if not follow the instructions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Joystick_lshal Further discussion might be more suited on http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=953639 even though I'm subscribed to ubuntu-users and ubuntu-devel-discuss. Feel free to edit the wiki pages if there are any errors. Please note that I'm not an Ubuntu developer, just been an Ubuntu user for a while Thanks in advance, Loïc -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
