[The Linux compatibility thread!]

Hey, i'm playing KSP on Arch Linux 64bit for a couple of days now. After Jebediah Kermans tragic death while testing the atmospheric beta version of my new moon lander, I decided it would be inevitable to take action and find a more efficient way to control the RCS boosters. When I finally attached my old and dusty Microsoft Sidewinder Precision Joystick, I was somewhat disappointed to realise KSP would not recognise its axes D:

Luckily I accidentally touched the thrust lever, when trying to assign one of the other axes and that one got recognised! When inspecting the settings.cfg after that, I found something like that:

AXIS_THROTTLE
{
	name = Microsoft SideWinder Precision 2 Joystick 3
	id = joy0.3
	inv = True
	sensitivity = 1
	deadzone = 0
	scale = 1
	group = 0
	switchState = Any
}

I guessed "joy0.3" would be some kind of device/axis identifier, so I tried and wrote slightly modified versions of this entry to the other axis definition sections in settings.cfg and it worked just fine:

AXIS_PITCH
{
	name = Microsoft SideWinder Precision 2 Joystick 3
	id = joy0.1
	inv = False
	sensitivity = 1
	deadzone = 0
	scale = 1
	group = 0
	switchState = Any
}
AXIS_ROLL
{
	name = Microsoft SideWinder Precision 2 Joystick 3
	id = joy0.2
	inv = True
	sensitivity = 1
	deadzone = 0
	scale = 1
	group = 0
	switchState = Any
}
AXIS_YAW
{
	name = Microsoft SideWinder Precision 2 Joystick 3
	id = joy0.0
	inv = False
	sensitivity = 1
	deadzone = 0
	scale = 1
	group = 0
	switchState = Any
}

So just in the case it was unknown until now: There seems to be a bug in the axis detection code in KSP settings, but - at least for some devices/setups/whatever - you can get your joystick working through manual settings.cfg modifications.