Re: linux kernel HID problem with Saitek X52 Pro Flight System

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 04:00:50AM +0200, Anssi Hannula wrote:
> Tim Cole wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 15:24 +0100, Stefan Bader wrote:
> >> The problem moved though. For the older kernels it was the tablets that
> >> were incorrectly detected as joysticks. But that patch of you went upstream
> >> and now it is the one joystick model that does not work.
> >> In our tree we reverted the patch in Jaunty, but with Karmic we have the other
> >> behavior. So in essence, someone is always complaining. :-P
> > 
> > I know what you mean, but well -- ideally we want to converge on the
> > correct behavior.  Otherwise we'll just keep spinning and things stay
> > broken.
> > 
> > To my view, blacklisting a joystick which (wrongly) reports itself as a
> > digitizer tablet is an improvement over creating broken joystick devices
> > for anything that reports itself as a tablet.  From that position we can
> > fix the problem with the single device reporting the wrong device type
> > and then everyone can be happy.
> 
> As far as I understood, we do not yet know why the joystick gets
> assigned digitizer keys, as the HID debug information requested has not
> been provided. We do not know for sure what the joystick itself reports
> or whether it is wrong or not.
> 

Well, the thing is reported ot have 39 buttons... HID simply starts at
BTN_TRIGGER and goes form there.

39 buttons.. sheesh.. maybe we need to reclassify it as a keyboard and
be done with it ;)

-- 
Dmitry