Intrepid: Thrustmaster Gamepad Is Detected As A Mouse

[Jeremy LaCroix]

I have a thrustmaster gamepad. I think it's a thrustmaster firestorm but I'm not certain of the exact type. It's a six button gamepad with no analog sticks.

In Intrepid, this gamepad is detected as a mouse. (If I press down, up, left, or right it moves the mouse cursor). If I press any of the action buttons, X restarts. Playing games with this gamepad is not possible. This gamepad worked fine in Hardy.

In fact, every gamepad I have tried does the same thing in Intrepid, so it's not limited to this particular controller. I was told in bug # 274203 to report this bug individually for each joystick that fails, however I think that's very silly as it is more important to fix this bug for all joysticks, not just the ones reported.

Regardless, attached is my lshal output.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Is it a serial device? The hal output doesn't seem to have it.

[Jeremy LaCroix (jlacroix82-deactivatedaccount)]

Nope, it's USB.

Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> Is it a serial device? The hal output doesn't seem to have it.
>
> ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-input-joystick (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
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[Jeremy LaCroix (jlacroix82-deactivatedaccount)]

Per bug # 274203, the crashing part of this bug was fixed. No longer does any of the action keys crash X.

However, the D-Pad still controls the mouse cursor by default which shouldn't be. This makes the D-Pad controls not work in MAME. The only thing left for this bug to be closed is for the gamepad not to control the mouse cursor.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

yes, it was silly to gather there, and it's no longer necessary. Lucid will not use evdev for joysticks, so plugging one in doesn't move the mouse cursor.