Flightgear with joystick

[Christoph Simon <datageo@terra.com.br>]

Hi!

I'm trying to run flightgear with an USB Sidewinder on debian sid. I
installed the joystick package and provided the relevant drivers in a
custom kernel 2.4.4. First I ran jstest which seemed to react
properly, although showing for the first two axis in a range of 2^10
rathern than that of 2^16 as I was told should be. Than I ran jscal
but get the answer:

	jscal: wrong version
	JsCal was compiled for driver version: 2.0.0
	Current running driver version: 2.1.0

I'm not sure which version it meant; it can't be the kernel driver as
sidewinder.c has version 1.18. Then I installed jscalibrator which
seemd to work nicely and generated a ~/.joystick file. As this didn't
work in flightgear, I asked on that mailing list where I was told that
the problem is with plib. Sid seems to have plib version 1.2 and 1.3
available, where 1.2 is said to replace 1.3, but both can be
installed. This wouldn't help anything, as flightgear depends
explicilty on version 1.2.

As I don't know which package is actually wrong, I also don't know
against which package I should file a bug. Any ideas?


--
Christoph Simon
datageo@terra.com.br
---
^X^C
q
quit
:q
^C
end
x
exit
ZZ
^D
?
help
shit
.