[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#850012: base: gamepad not registering up or left

[Dustin Sallings]

Package: base
Severity: normal

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I'm using a NES gamepad USB interface and found that up and left are
not registered.  This seems to be a known issue, with many people
complaining here:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=44233&p=831372

as well as a solution found here:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=36564&start=25

It seems the range is not properly detected.  All the other buttons,
and right and down seem to work as expected, but left and up send
nothing to the joystick device and leads to nearly working sadness.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.6
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: armhf (armv7l)

Kernel: Linux 3.4.112-sun8i (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)