So if even with "sudo evtest" you don't get any events from the pedals with evtest when you push the pedals or cause any kind of movement with them, that isn't a permission problem. That sounds either like a hardware problem (more likely if it only happens sporadically) or some bug in the kernel's evdev driver for the joystick.
So if even with "sudo evtest" you don't get any events from the pedals with evtest when you push the pedals or cause any kind of movement with them, that isn't a permission problem. That sounds either like a hardware problem (more likely if it only happens sporadically) or some bug in the kernel's evdev driver for the joystick.