Thanks for your bug report, and the pointer to the forums thread. There's something funny about axis detection for both jscalibrator and js_demo (in the flightgear package). In general, you don't need to calibrate your gamepad or joystick prior to playing most games.
-- Gamepad axis not working after calibration https://launchpad.net/bugs/81093 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
