I have changed my pinning policy to prefer testing over stable: APT policy: (950, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'unstable') and ran a full apt-get dist-upgrade. Having then downgraded freeglut back to the stable's 2.2.0 version and forbidding the current testing release of the 2.4.0 one, I recompiled flightgear, and it worked on Debian testing as well, also seeing the joystick, with the 2.6.14 kernel (sorry for my previous ignorance on this bug thread about the new kernel packaging scheme that had lead me to miss the post 2.6.8 kernel packages in the Debian archive).
The funny thing is that (just for fun) I have retested the older (2.6.8) kernel, even after complete power down (with the power cord removed to make sure), and now I see that the CH Products yoke and pedals DO work with my computer (/dev/input/js[01]). Perhaps some change was introduced in the user-level USB utilities (and/or hotplug) that masked (or augmented, if you prefer it this way) the default kernel behaviour. You may reassign the present bug to some other package if you know to which one :-) Hence, I didn't work any further on the issue (my plan was to hunt down if an equivalent patch was needed to a later kernel, and creating a kernel config option to mask this patch for those who are afraid of it). Fly safe (even if in the virtual reality), Vassilii -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
