Comment 5 for bug 301506

(In reply to comment #1)
> please grab http://people.freedesktop.org/~whot/evtest.c, compile it with gcc
> -o evtest evtest.c and run it against the /dev/input/eventX device of your
> joystick (where X is a number, you can get it from /proc/bus/input/devices)
>
> Does it reporte a grab succeeding of failing?
>

Grabbing either the mouse (touchpad) or keyboard fails, grabbing the joystick succeeds. This happens both with xserver-xorg-input-joystick installed, and without it. (restarting Xorg inbetween)