Trying to get through a kernel patch
After having trouble setting up my selection of CH joysticks to work with X-Plane on my Gentoo Linux based laptop, I did some research. It seems that the issue is a well known one: on 64 bit Linux systems, joystick control events are not passed through to 32 bit applications. And X-Plane is such - a closed source application, available in 32 bit binaries only.
Despite the issue being raised earlier on the linux-kernel list, this was not yet fixed in the kernel. So I posted a patch again, hoping for the best.
Let’s see how the open source movement works in this case.
But then again, the issue wouldn’t come up at all if one could get X-Plane compiled for 64-bit systems, or better yet, re-compile X-Plane on his own for whatever platform he wants to.