Pad works in menus, but not in gameplay.

[domen]

Hello!

I have a weird problem. I have a cheap usb tag, that linux detects as joystick device (this isn't the problem ;) ).

In stepmania, I can configure it just fine, and then use to navigate menus. When I go play a game, I see the presses (feedback with arrows on top), but I don't get ANY hits. When I try the physical keyboard, the hits are reported, as they should be.

I'm kind of puzzled what could be the problem. Ideas?

stepmania 3.9, linux 2.6.35

/proc/bus/input/devices:

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=0e8f Product=0035 Version=0110
N: Name="ga451-usb device"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.7-4.3/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-4/1-4.3/1-4.3:1.0/input/input11
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=event5 js0
B: EV=1b
B: KEY=3ff00000000 0 0 0 0
B: ABS=1000000001f
B: MSC=10

Presses are reported like this:

$ evtest /dev/input/event5
Input driver version is 1.0.0
Input device ID: bus 0x3 vendor 0xe8f product 0x35 version 0x110
Input device name: "ga451-usb device"
Supported events:
  Event type 0 (Sync)
  Event type 1 (Key)
    Event code 288 (Trigger)
    Event code 289 (ThumbBtn)
    Event code 290 (ThumbBtn2)
    Event code 291 (TopBtn)
    Event code 292 (TopBtn2)
    Event code 293 (PinkieBtn)
    Event code 294 (BaseBtn)
    Event code 295 (BaseBtn2)
    Event code 296 (BaseBtn3)
    Event code 297 (BaseBtn4)
  Event type 3 (Absolute)
    Event code 0 (X)
      Value      1
      Min        0
      Max      255
      Flat      15
    Event code 1 (Y)
      Value    127
      Min        0
      Max      255
      Flat      15
    Event code 2 (Z)
      Value    127
      Min        0
      Max      255
      Flat      15
    Event code 3 (Rx)
      Value    127
      Min        0
      Max      255
      Flat      15
    Event code 4 (Ry)
      Value    127
      Min        0
      Max      255
      Flat      15
    Event code 40 (Misc)
      Value     15
      Min        0
      Max        7
  Event type 4 (Misc)
    Event code 4 (ScanCode)
Testing ... (interrupt to exit)
Event: time 1287101237.158183, type 4 (Misc), code 4 (ScanCode), value 90001
Event: time 1287101237.158185, type 1 (Key), code 288 (Trigger), value 1
Event: time 1287101237.158202, -------------- Report Sync ------------
Event: time 1287101237.326186, type 4 (Misc), code 4 (ScanCode), value 90001
Event: time 1287101237.326188, type 1 (Key), code 288 (Trigger), value 0
Event: time 1287101237.326204, -------------- Report Sync ------------
Event: time 1287101241.566254, type 4 (Misc), code 4 (ScanCode), value 90003
Event: time 1287101241.566257, type 1 (Key), code 290 (ThumbBtn2), value 1
Event: time 1287101241.566272, -------------- Report Sync ------------
Event: time 1287101243.574288, type 4 (Misc), code 4 (ScanCode), value 90003
Event: time 1287101243.574290, type 1 (Key), code 290 (ThumbBtn2), value 0
Event: time 1287101243.574305, -------------- Report Sync ------------

[domen]

Nevermind, it was the "smpad.patch" that archlinux package had applied. Works without it!

Sorry for the noise.