Comment 75 for bug 274203

I'll try to keep it short so the bug report doesn't become huge.
First, I'm not an Ubuntu developer ;)

Martin Emrich (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-evdev/+bug/274203/comments/64) you should check the version of evdev (see my previous comment https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-evdev/+bug/274203/comments/60) because either you're not up-to-date and you'll just confuse the developers, or the bug isn't solved and they need to be informed (by reopening the bug).

CypherDelic your bug is actually a duplicate of this bug. Since you provided the required information in Bug #283399, you can mark it as a duplicate now. Also no need to write the information in your posts, attachments are good enough.

@everybody : please don't quote the post you're answering to (I guess you're using email) - it shows quite badly on Launchpad.

Now, back to the bug reports:
X crashing has been fixed, that's why the bug it marked as "Fixed". Since Ubuntu developers were expecting joysticks not to work anymore in Intrepid after changes in Xorg, this bug report has not much point (that's maybe why they also closed it against xserver-xorg-input-joystick.

I've created two wiki pages https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Joystick_lshal_outputs_done and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Joystick_lshal along with a forum thread at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=953639, please follow the wiki pages guide if you want to help, for other discussion the forum thread might be appropriate.

By the way, I've managed to find an fdi file for Sony Dual Shock 3 and Sysaxis game pads (tested, it works when copied in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ ). It's attached (DualShock3.fdi), if you won another joystick you might be able to edit it for your own model.