[ale] Hopefully dumb question about USB Joystick

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net (tfreeman at intel.digichem.net)]

I have a MS Sidewinder usb joystick lying around without a real use for 
it, so I decided to get it working with my RH9 system. I'm not a gamer or 
sim player, so the motivation is more pride of accomplishment than 
despearate need. Stupid thing doesn't work...

When I plug the joystick in, it shows up on the USB subsystem (as seen 
with usbview), but the programs "js_demo", "fgjs", and "jscal" don't seem 
to find the appropriate device file. I've googled without apparent 
success, hit www.usb-linux.org, RedHat's help files, browsed around in the 
kernel source doc files without getting clued in to what is missing.

Anybody on list have a clue they might share? Failing that, any ideas on 
trouble shooting this connection?

Thanks in advance.

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