Comment 7 for bug 21169

(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > Plugged both joysticks in, created device files manually:
> > /dev/input$ sudo cat /dev/input/js0
> > cat: /dev/input/js0: No such device
> > /dev/input$ sudo cat /dev/input/js1
> > cat: /dev/input/js1: No such device
> >
> > Am I being ignorant, or shouldn't this work?
>
> No, if the kernel does not know the device, randomly creating a node for it
> can't work. OTOH, if the kernel knew about the actual joystick device, it is
> very likely that udev had already created the device automatically.

I agree. I was testing to see if the kernel recognized it. Ben Collins seemed
to think that the kernel was recognizing it fine, and that it was udev not doing
something. I was testing that theory.

> The most probable solution is that a module is missing.
>

I will attach the two lsmod outputs. Again, these are two different machines
running different hardware (Hoary = IBM T40, Breezy = A7N-8X nvidia/athlon)