Saitek X52 Pro not detected/detected as mouse

[Neo]

I wanted play a bit fgfs and had to realize that my joystick don't work any more. It is a bit strange because I'm pretty sure that it did work several weeks ago. I'm using (K)Ubuntu 9.04 and I know that I was able to calibrate this joystick (Saitek X52 Pro) in the "System Settings" -> "Keyboard & Mouse" -> "Joystick". Now there is only error message "No joystick device found on this computer"

I checked it and there is indeed no /dev/js device. If I plug this joystick in my computer dmesg detects it like this:

[13654.784428] usb 3-1: USB disconnect, address 2
[13657.010948] usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
[13657.197966] usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[13657.212791] input: Saitek Saitek X52 Pro Flight Control System as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.0/input/input10
[13657.229529] generic-usb 0003:06A3:0762.0007: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Joystick [Saitek Saitek X52 Pro Flight Control System] on usb-0000:00:1a.0-1/input0

I saw that HAL assigns this device to /dev/event9 so I suppose that it could be the problem. I tried to symlink /dev/event9 to /dev/js0 but it didn't work. KDE Joystick setting said that this device isn't a joystick.

I've tried to uninstall xserver-xorg-input-joystick and install it again but it don't help too.

I'm attaching lsusb. lshal and dmesg output.
My kernel is: 2.6.28-15-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux
I'm using KDE 4.3

I saw that there are similar reports but I believe that this is not the same problem as my X-Server does not crash and I don't want to use my joystick as a mouse. The other one report I've found concerns the beta version of Jounty and I'm using the stable version and as I wrote above, this joystick did work before. The only one big update I did in the meantime was the update to KDE 4.3

Best regards,
Neo

[Luke (puffo-)]

Actually it seems to me that it's a problem specifically related to kernel 2.6.28-15-generic

See the dmesg result below for kernel 15 and 11 and how they differ.
Also Saitek X52 Pro works correctly on my machine Kubuntu 64-bit 9.04 with kernel 2.6.28-13-generic

It would be interesting to know what exactly changed from kernel 2.6.28-13-generic to 2.6.28-15-generic,
as I'm fairly sure this is the root cause of the malfunction described in this bug report.

Regards,
Luke

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 Using kernel 2.6.28-15-generic i386 DOESN'T WORK
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[ 290.312080] usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[ 290.545927] usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 290.702823] usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
[ 290.718774] input: Saitek Saitek X52 Pro Flight Control System as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/input/input9
[ 290.736718] generic-usb 0003:06A3:0762.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Joystick [Saitek Saitek X52 Pro Flight Control System] on usb-0000:00:1f.2-2/input0
[ 290.736779] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[ 290.736789] usbhid: v2.6:USB HID core driver

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Using kernel 2.6.28-11-generic i386 WORKS
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[ 1277.676096] usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 13
[ 1277.910589] usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 1277.931319] input: Saitek Saitek X52 Pro Flight Control System as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/input/input12
[ 1277.960398] generic-usb 0003:06A3:0762.0004: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Joystick [Saitek Saitek X52 Pro Flight Control System] on usb-0000:00:1f.2-2/input0

[Neo (suski-radek)]

Yes you're right. I noticed in the meantime that on my laptop where I have kernel 2.6.28-14-generic this joystick works fine.
Unfortunately my laptop is too weak to play Flightgear 1.9 :-/

I think we can only wait ...

[arky (arky)]

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[TBRUSA (tbrusa)]

Its a joystick class driver problem. I had the same problem with the Saitek X52 and I found the workaround in the kernel bugzilla at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14049.

Patch for correction:

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From 83c004fb08fed8064b76041d398c2daa33871cc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Janos Laube <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:34:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "Input: joydev - blacklist digitizers"

This reverts commit d07a9cba6be5c0e947afc1014b5a62182a86f1f1.

This fixes kernel bugzilla #14049:
joydev: blacklist digitizers avoids recognition of Saitek X52 joysticks

Signed-off-by: Janos Laube <email address hidden>
---
 drivers/input/joydev.c | 8 +-------
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/input/joydev.c b/drivers/input/joydev.c
index 9a1d55b..84865e5 100644
--- a/drivers/input/joydev.c
+++ b/drivers/input/joydev.c
@@ -857,13 +857,7 @@ static const struct input_device_id joydev_blacklist[] = {
     INPUT_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_KEYBIT,
   .evbit = { BIT_MASK(EV_KEY) },
   .keybit = { [BIT_WORD(BTN_TOUCH)] = BIT_MASK(BTN_TOUCH) },
- }, /* Avoid itouchpads and touchscreens */
- {
- .flags = INPUT_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_EVBIT |
- INPUT_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_KEYBIT,
- .evbit = { BIT_MASK(EV_KEY) },
- .keybit = { [BIT_WORD(BTN_DIGI)] = BIT_MASK(BTN_DIGI) },
- }, /* Avoid tablets, digitisers and similar devices */
+ }, /* Avoid itouchpads, touchscreens and tablets */
  { } /* Terminating entry */
 };

--
1.6.4.2

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Best regards.

[th3flyboy (th3flyboy)]

This is not a duplicate of 300143, and it is still happening in Maverick with the latest kernel. Please incorporate this fix to allow for the X52/Pro to be detected. I really don't want to have to build my own kernels every kernel update in order to get my joystick to work.