Bug#532115: the joystick bug

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:53:10PM +0400, Sergey Yakimov wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I've tried to do what you've said. Please, see the attached log. I found that 
> the device is correctly found but the system lacks some files to correctly 
> handle it.
> Or i might be wrong?..

The files reported as missing are optional.

> Anyway here's a part of it:
[...]
> [15107] udev_node_mknod: mknod(/dev/input/js0, 020664, (13,0))
> [15107] udev_node_mknod: chmod(/dev/input/js0, 020664)
> [15107] udev_node_mknod: chown(/dev/input/js0, 0, 0)
[...]

This says that /dev/input/js0 is being created, as you wanted.

The question now is, why this doesn't happen at boot time.

Ben.

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