Seems that Albert found out the fix to make evdev not use the device, and it seems to only affect 64bit installations (which would explain why I wasn't able to reproduce this since I have a 32bit system):
Check bug 284951, which is the new master bug about that. It will be fixed before release. It also means that no fdi-file tricks are needed in order to use joysticks. The X joystick driver on the other hand still needs HAL to list the device as input.joystick. -- 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
