Flight Gear joystick configuration, Linux

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Hi, all

I just started playing with Flight Gear, version 0.9.5, and I'm having a
bit of trouble with the joystick configuration.

I used fgjs to setp up which axes to use for which controls, but I have
two big problems.
The first, is that there is too much sensitivity.
Playing with the mouse, I got the hang of flying stright and level and
doing simple turns (even doing a loop) after three or four minutes.
Playing with the joystick is just impossible.

The second, is that the throttle control works wrong for me. I have a
self-returning (is this the right term?) joystick. So if I use a joystick
axis for throttle, I can open the throttle to increase engine RPM, but as
I releaseit, the throttle returns to idle. I'd like it to stick at the
last position I set.

I got Flight Gear with the Mandrake distribution, and the docs refer to
the "Docs/README.Joystick.html in the base package", which I don't have...


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