Bug#532115: the joystick bug

[Sergey Yakimov <sergwy@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Thank you .

I have checked the /dev/input derictory and there's no js0 device in there.
sergius-0:/dev/input# ls -l
итого 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    120 Июн 19 02:19 by-path
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 64 Июн 19 02:19 event0
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 65 Июн 19 02:19 event1
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 66 Июн 19 02:19 event2
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 67 Июн 19 02:19 event3
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 68 Июн 19 02:19 event4
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 69 Июн 19 02:19 event5
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 63 Июн 19 02:18 mice
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 32 Июн 19 02:19 mouse0

Niether is it in /dev.

Even after manual restart of udev.
As far as I understand the joystick needs drivers as any device. Is it 
possible that the drivers simply disabled in the kernel because they are old?

Best regards.
SY

On Friday 19 June 2009 00:54:50 Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 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.