I'm really curious why the new xorg would be considered if it broke joysticks. Not being able to use joysticks is a HUGE problem. For most of us, the work arounds are fine. (They don't work for me though). Since I'm sure we're all comfortable getting under Ubuntu's hood, we wouldn't have a problem with any work around that is invented.
However, joysticks not working out of the box when Intrepid comes out will not be acceptable. Joe User doesn't know how to edit the xorg.conf file to get his joystick working, and he shouldn't have to. Joysticks have worked in every Ubuntu release and should still. Gaming is probably one of if not the major shortcomings of Linux keeping it from mainstream use, and by the most popular Linux distribution in the world not being able to use joysticks properly is going to hurt the reputation of Linux even more. Is there any way to force the old joystick driver for all joysticks? Please, whatever we can do to make joysticks work just like they did in Hardy would be great. I'll help with whatever is needed. I'll test whatever I need to and I devote as much time to this as you need, let's please not let a huge bug like this remain in the final Intrepid release. -- Joystick detected as mouse, crashes X https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/274203 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
