On Wednesday 30 Nov 2005 13:45, Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: > I have changed my pinning policy to prefer testing over > stable: APT policy: (950, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (300, > 'unstable') and ran a full apt-get dist-upgrade. > Having then downgraded freeglut back to the stable's 2.2.0 > version and forbidding the current testing release of the > 2.4.0 one, I recompiled flightgear, and it worked on Debian > testing as well, also seeing the joystick, with the 2.6.14 > kernel (sorry for my previous ignorance on this bug thread > about the new kernel packaging scheme that had lead me to miss > the post 2.6.8 kernel packages in the Debian archive). > > The funny thing is that (just for fun) I have retested the > older (2.6.8) kernel, even after complete power down (with the > power cord removed to make sure), and now I see that the CH > Products yoke and pedals DO work with my computer > (/dev/input/js[01]). Perhaps some change was introduced in the > user-level USB utilities (and/or hotplug) that masked (or > augmented, if you prefer it this way) the default kernel > behaviour. You may reassign the present bug to some other > package if you know to which one :-) > > Hence, I didn't work any further on the issue (my plan was to > hunt down if an equivalent patch was needed to a later kernel, > and creating a kernel config option to mask this patch for > those who are afraid of it). > > Fly safe (even if in the virtual reality), > Vassilii
I wonder if this might have been anything to do with devfs/udev issues? LeeE _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
