Comment 40 for bug 284951

I use a Microsoft Sidewinder GamePad Pro USB version 1.0 game controller with mupen64, gfceu, etc. But once I upgraded to Ibex, it stopped working. The directional pad moves the mouse cursor around but thats it.

Googling led me to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Joystick_lshal_outputs_done
which tells me that:
"With xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.0.99+git20080912-0ubuntu6 now in intrepid-updates, all you need to do is update your system (just check the version of xserver-xorg-input-evdev if you joypad still doesn't work in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) amd64, and make sure you're not using joystick-calibrator, jscal or another program like that)."

I checked my version of xserver-xorg-input-evdev and it is 1:2.0.99+git20080912-0ubuntu6 and I don't find any joystick calibration programs installed on my machine. But the controller still doesn't work.

I couldn't find the fdi file for my controller so I followed the instructions, making a file that contains the differences between the output of lshal with, and without the controller plugged in. The instructions tell me to attach this file to bug #283399
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-joystick/+bug/283399

But here I find that the bug is closed and that "An updated evdev package is in intrepid-proposed, so lshal output and .fdi files won't be necessary anymore"

In bug #284951 I read that this problem only affected 64bit installations, but I am using i386.

this was posted 2008-11-1 as Open Question #51417 -- I still have not gotten any further information.