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This is old news, but I searched like mad, and couldn't find anything on 
the web.
Maybe some of you once have the same problem.
I wanted to play a game under Wine, but it was nearly unplayable with 
the keyb controls.
So I plugged in an USB gamepad . . . it didn't work.
Time to hit the wonderful world of Google . . .
As always, the combination of Wine + "Insert_topic_here" yielded nothing 
but "Linux - mainly Ubuntu" stuff.
There are enough threads, but none that helps.
Seems like Linux has /dev/input/js, I wonder if this is neccessary . . .
The Wine wiki mentions  a DirectInput registry key . . .  Linux only.

We have USB keyboards and mice, we should have a gamepad, me thinks . . .

Lemme see,
$ cat /dev/uhid1 . . nothing
$ cat /dev/uhid2  . . there it is !
Me presses buttons, jerks sticks - terminal responds with weird output. 
Good !
Uh-huh, what about the joystick driver in ../xorg/modules/input ?

$ man joystick
There -  everything is documented in all it's glory.

$ sudo vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf

:snip

Section "ServerLayout"
..
InputDevice    "Gamepad"
..
..
Section "InputDevice"
     Identifier "Gamepad"
     Driver     "joystick"
     Option     "Device"    "/dev/uhid2"
     Option         "Buttons" "16"
     Option   "many_more"
EndSection

:snap

Guess what - it worked.

Tons of useless threads in hundreds of Linux forums, and all you need is 
a single manpage.
Go figure . .