> looking over Saitek's website, tho; it looks like the X36 is > USB-only. do you know if all the doohickeys work under Linux, over the USB > interface? > it occurs to me that there are so many buttons on this thing, it's > almost concievable to map them to keys and make a chording keyboard out of > it. :) One of my friends actually has the version of that stick from before they were making it with USB I believe that part of his plugs into the joystick port and the other part has a pass through to plug into the keyboard port, or something wacky like that. Funny thing is the windows software that came with it DOES map most of the buttons to keyboard keys. - Kremer