From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: The kernel sees the joystick and jstest (from joystick-1.2.15-18 package) sees the joystick but I get no "joy" when trying to use it. Nothing happens when using the "jstest /dev/input/js0" command. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.10-1.766_FC3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. $ lsusb Bus 001 Device 006: ID 06a3:053c Saitek PLC 2. $ ls -la /dev/input/js0 crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13,1 Feb 19 18:04 /dev/input/js0 3. $ jstest /dev/input/js0 (Displays initial button status, but then....) (Nothing happens when buttons pressed or axis moved) Actual Results: Fascinating. Nothing happens. Expected Results: Expected jstest to display button presses and show axis movement. (Works fine on Windows XP). Additional info:
An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which may contain a fix for your problem. Please update to this new kernel, and report whether or not it fixes your problem. If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version field of this bug to 'fc4'. Thank you.
This bug has been automatically closed as part of a mass update. It had been in NEEDINFO state since July 2005. If this bug still exists in current errata kernels, please reopen this bug. There are a large number of inactive bugs in the database, and this is the only way to purge them. Thank you.