From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Bader Subject: Re: linux kernel HID problem with Saitek X52 Pro Flight System Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:24:01 +0100 Message-ID: <4B225601.3080002@canonical.com> References: <4B21308F.5070304@canonical.com> <1260541128.3656.6.camel@bede> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from adelie.canonical.com ([91.189.90.139]:58861 "EHLO adelie.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754959AbZLKOX5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:23:57 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1260541128.3656.6.camel@bede> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Tim Cole Cc: Jiri Kosina , Sergey Kolesnikov , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, Dmitry Torokhov Tim Cole wrote: > On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 18:31 +0100, Stefan Bader wrote: >> I know this is quite a long time ago now, but has there be any outcome >> on how to handle those joysticks? > > Haven't heard anything in a while... I'm really kind of frustrated, > since this originally shook out of the attempt to fix the problem where > tablets are detected as non-functional joysticks which is a major pain > to me personally. But that evidently can't be fixed until these > joysticks report themselves properly... > > -Tim 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 -Stefan