[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#470794: hal: Joypad recognised as a mouse, not a joystick

[Sam Morris]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.10+git20080301-1
Severity: normal

I have a Gravis gamepad that HAL seems to think is a mouse rather than a
joystick:

udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_428_4001_noserial_if0_logicaldev_input'
  info.capabilities = {'input', 'input.mouse'} (string list)
  info.category = 'input'  (string)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_428_4001_noserial_if0'  (string)
  info.product = 'Gravis GamePad Pro USB'  (string)
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_428_4001_noserial_if0_logicaldev_input'  (string)
  input.device = '/dev/input/event10'  (string)
  input.originating_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_428_4001_noserial_if0'  (string)
  input.physical_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_428_4001_noserial_if0'  (string)
  input.product = 'Gravis GamePad Pro USB'  (string)
  linux.device_file = '/dev/input/event10'  (string)
  linux.hotplug_type = 2  (0x2)  (int)
  linux.subsystem = 'input'  (string)
  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/class/input/input10/event10'  (string)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (520, 'testing'), (510, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii  adduser                    3.106         add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                       1.1.2-1       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal-info                   20080215-1    Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f
ii  libc6                      2.7-6         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                1.1.2-1       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.74-1        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1                  1.95.8-4      XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libgcc1                    1:4.3.0~rc2-1 GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.16.1-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal-storage1            0.5.10-5      Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal1                    0.5.10-5      Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libsmbios1                 0.13.10-1     Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa
ii  libstdc++6                 4.3.0~rc2-1   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4               2:0.1.12-9    userspace USB programming library
ii  libvolume-id0              0.114-2       libvolume_id shared library
ii  lsb-base                   3.1-24        Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  mount                      2.13.1-1      Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  pciutils                   1:2.2.10-1    Linux PCI Utilities
ii  pm-utils                   0.99.2-3      utilities and scripts for power ma
ii  udev                       0.114-2       /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  usbutils                   0.73-5        Linux USB utilities

Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii  eject                         2.1.5-6    ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii  libsmbios-bin                 0.13.10-1  Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa

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