wine users - Jul 2013 - Joystick axis mapping issue (wine/linux)

Good day to you wine users

I've following problem, I've a cheap joystick which is recognized
as DragonRise Inc. - however many of them are I guess.
It's some china stuff which is each time labeled different but almost
always the same device (or so I've heard).

Everything works great except the joystick is recognized as being 7 axis
one - I really dont know why it does this.
It has X/Y of course and an rudder + some buttons.
It's not 7 axis nor do I need 7 axis, I only need 2 in fact -
now the very specific issue, the 3rd Axis somehow is tied to the
0(X)-Axis - it changes if I change the X Axis.
And somehow it results in problem with an game I got running on wine and
want to play (X-Wing Alliance).

So what I really want to do is being the joystick recognized as 2 Axis
one OR override wine's behaviour with 2 Axis.

Any ideas?

regards,
Georg

On 07/29/2013 10:24 AM, Georg Bege wrote:
> Good day to you wine users
>
> I've following problem, I've a cheap joystick which is recognized
> as DragonRise Inc. - however many of them are I guess.
> It's some china stuff which is each time labeled different but almost
> always the same device (or so I've heard).
>
> Everything works great except the joystick is recognized as being 7 axis
> one - I really dont know why it does this.
> It has X/Y of course and an rudder + some buttons.
> It's not 7 axis nor do I need 7 axis, I only need 2 in fact -
> now the very specific issue, the 3rd Axis somehow is tied to the
> 0(X)-Axis - it changes if I change the X Axis.
> And somehow it results in problem with an game I got running on wine and
> want to play (X-Wing Alliance).
>
> So what I really want to do is being the joystick recognized as 2 Axis
> one OR override wine's behaviour with 2 Axis.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> regards,
> Georg
>
>
George,
  Could you possibly supply us with error information? Oh and you 
distribution name and kernel series number.

You know good oldIE 'uname -arm' with out the quotes in a terminal.


Sounds to me like bug inb the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) 
interpretation that wine is implementing. Have you tried a different 
distribution of make/model of joystick?

I am running Xubuntu 12.04 LTS I'de try that if i where in you're shoes.

Thanks,

Chip
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