Description:

Due to a quirk with CH Products joysticks, it's always been necessary to unplug the joystick and plug it back in after boot to get it to work - On boot it's listed in dmesg, /proc/bus/input/devices and lsusb, but moving the axes and pressing buttons do nothing until you've unplugged and re-plugged the joystick once.

I've heard a patch which added a quirk for the Saitek Cyborg Gold joysticks was submitted (and accepted) for 2.6.29 in late March, and is now in mainline. I'm assuming the joystick functioned properly in 2.6.28 and encountered a regression similar to what I've got now.

At present, no amount of removing and adding the joystick gets it to function, though it still does show up in the appropriate places.

Joystick's a CH Products Combatstick 568 USB, and its ID is 068e:00f4. Googling for that, I see some pastebinned output containing that string from the 12th, so I assume I'm one of many suffering from this issue.