From they sound of it you got it to work,

what happened??

> Never mind, I am an idiot
>
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Igor Chudov <ichu...@gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> I attended a garage sale today, and accidentally bought a Saitek P880
>> joypad for $2 (brand new, never used).
>>
>> If I plug it in, I can see it in jscalibrator. By all accounts it
>> works well. I am a member of group plugdev.
>>
>> I tried to follow this web page, which also talks about Saitek P880:
>>
>> http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/emcinfo.pl?A_New_Approach_For_Using_Joypads_With_EMC2
>>
>> However, EMC2 saw NO signals from this joystick, if I tried to do
>> halcmd show all, no buttons or anything would appear in the list.
>>
>> I decided to comment out everything and left only one statement:
>> loadusr -W hal_input -KRAL Saitek
>>
>> Even then nothing was listed (no buttons or other things).
>>
>> I have a feeling that I am missing something simple, maybe something
>> in xorg.conf or whatever.
>>
>> lsmod shows joydev loaded. if I do cat /dev/inupt/js0 and press
>> buttons, I get some characters output so I assume that it is working.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
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