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Yes I did install libsdl2-2.0-0. I had to manually install the ClickThroughBlocker and ToolbarController using command line ckan with the --allow-incompatible flag. I don't know if maybe I was blind before, but I fired up the game without making any further changes to it and there is advanced fly by wire and it was able to see my joystick. Huzzah. I did just upgrade from 4 GB to 8 GB ram (it's a very old computer). Maybe not enough memory was making the mod not show up before (or maybe I was blind)? The machine is currently taking up 4.6 GB with KSP running (and it runs so much smoother), so maybe I just didn't have enough memory to load the mod? But anyways, I was able to map my pitch and yaw successfully. The throttle mapping seems a bit wonky, it moves the throttle but then the game immediately snaps it back to the previous position, so I am not sure what the deal is with that. So overall yay, I have basic joystick functionality. Thank you for your help. Do you know why the standard settings panel does not see my joystick? It is a nice interface that I know used to work and it would be nice if I could get the throttle working. I do dislike having to rely on mods. They always are such a hassle and in general always seem to break whenever the main program is updated.

Yes I did. I tried using ckan through the gui, which would not install it because it was out of date. I was able to put it in place with command line ckan using the flag to override incompatibility and also with manually dropping in the files. Both approaches resulted in KSP warning the mod was outdated when it started and I could have it check for updates or remind me later. Either option I chose led to a result where I could not see any evidence of the mod being installed. I am not very familiar with KSP mods but I could not find anywhere in the gui to access the mods or even see a list of installed mods, which led me to believe it was no loaded.

I cannot get my joystick to be seen when setting it up in the input settings of KSP. KSP acts like it is not even plugged in, no recognition or acknowledgement of it at all. Anyone know what the issue is or how to fix it? Ubuntu: 19.04 KSP: 1.7.2, no mods, no expansions Joystick: an old Microsoft one, sidewinder 2 I think I have installed 'joystick' and 'jstest-gtk' on Ubuntu. Using this I can bring up a window that allows me to test the joystick. Everything works great there. I have verified all the buttons an axes work correctly. So this does not appear to be a problem with the joystick or Ubuntu. I have searched the internet extensively for answers to this problem but have found no one with my exact situation or a solution that works for me. I have tried the advanced fly by wire mod, which some people say can allow you to set up the joystick, however it looks like it is only compatible with KSP 1.5 or older, so it looks like this mod has been abandoned and won't work for me unless I want to be stuck on an old KSP version, which I do not. I used to play KSP successfully using this joystick, but it was on a much older KSP version (back when it was still in beta) and was on an old Linux Mint OS (but same hardware). Does anyone have an ideas I haven't tried yet? Thanks for any help.