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From:  Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
Subject: [gentoo-user]  Re: gamepad is attached... and what?
Date:  Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:28:37 +0200
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Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> [...]
> No, those are for old non-USB joysticks.  You need to make sure that 
> these are enabled:
> 
>   Input device support --> <*> Joystick interface
>   Input device support --> <*> Event interface
>   HID Devices --> <*> USB Human Interface Device (full HID) support

PS:

You also need HAL and probably D-Bus installed and running.