Ubuntu
joystick package

  1. Bug #45930
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 45930

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Emmet Hikory (persia) wrote : Re: jstest SEGFAULTs with ubs joystick

I can replicate this for AMD64 with a different joystick (Saitek X52), although the package was not in the repositories (I locally compiled from https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/dapper/+source/joystick/20051019-1ubuntu1).

In addition, there seems to be a kernel issue with the MP-8866 Joypad, addressed by http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/usb/2.6/2.6.16-rc5/wisegroup-mp-8866-dual-usb-joypad.patch. This is part of mainline 2.6.16, so it will automatically be applied when the kernel next syncs with upstream.

As a workaround, the js_demo program shipped with flightgear provides a fair amount of information about joysticks (including tracking interaction with axes and buttons) and input-events from the input-utils package will provide an event dump while using the joystick.