This is a bit off topic, since, although pydance is an audio app of sorts, my problem isn't with the audio, but there's enough expertise here that someone might be able to help. I have tried both the pydance mailing list and comp.os.linux.hardware, and haven't made any progress. I got a USB mat from Level6 to use with pydance, and it looks like the system is recognizing it as a joystick, but I can't get it to read any events. I checked it on a Windows 98 system, and it has no problem seeing the button events, so I think the hardware is probably OK. When I boot with the mat attached, I get: hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected usbcore: registered new driver hiddev ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394' input: USB HID v1.00 Gamepad [Dance Dance ] on usb-0000:00:11.0-2 usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver pydance says on startup: 1 joystick(s) found. Joystick 0 initialized: 3 axes, 10 buttons. Loaded input configuration. But it registers everything I do when I dance as a miss. When I run jstest, I get: [~]# jstest /dev/js0 Joystick (Dance Dance ) has 3 axes and 10 buttons. Driver version is 2.1.0. Testing ... (interrupt to exit) Axes: 0: 0 1: 0 2: 0 Buttons: 0:off 1:off 2:off Axes: 0: 0 1: 0 2: 0 Buttons: 0:off 1:off 2:off Axes: 0: 0 1: 0 2: 0 Buttons: 0:off 1:off 2:off Axes: 0: 0 1: 0 2: 0 Buttons: 0:off 1:off 2:off Axes: 0: 0 1: 0 2: 0 Buttons: 0:off 1:off 2:off Axes: 0: 0 1: 0 2: 0 Buttons: 0:off 1:off 2:off Axes: 0: 0 1: 0 2: 0 Buttons: 0:off 1:off 2:off Axes: 0: 0 1: 0 2: 0 Buttons: 0:off 1:off 2:off Axes: 0: 0 1: 0 2: 0 Buttons: 0:off 1:off 2:off Axes: 0: 0 1: 0 2: 0 Buttons: 0:off 1:off 2:off Axes: 0: 0 1: 0 2: 0 Buttons: 0:off 1:off 2:off Axes: 0: 0 1: 0 2: 0 Buttons: 0:off 1:off 2:off Axes: 0: 0 1: 0 2: 0 Buttons: 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off 7:off 8:off 9:off [~]# But nothing more happens when I step on the pad. uname -a says: Linux tuba 2.6.9 #2 SMP Tue Nov 9 12:07:52 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux What else do I need to do? -- Laura (mailto:lconrad@xxxxxxxxxxxx , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (501) 641-5011 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139