Bug#341035: kernel-source-2.6.8: [PATCH] CH Products USB yoke and pedals recognized but frozen by SET_IDLE
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
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