Some more info, I launched the wine app with WINEDEBUG=+dinput And saw Code: trace:dinput:IDirectInputWImpl_EnumDevices - checking device 2 ('Wine Linux-input joystick driver') trace:dinput:find_joydevs Found a joystick on /dev/input/event4: Guillemot Corporation DA Leader ({9e573eda-7734-11d2-8d4a-23903fb6bdf7}) trace:dinput:find_joydevs ... with axis 0: cur=103, min=0, max=255, fuzz=0, flat=15 trace:dinput:find_joydevs ... with axis 1: cur=133, min=0, max=255, fuzz=0, flat=15 trace:dinput:find_joydevs ... with axis 5: cur=120, min=0, max=255, fuzz=0, flat=15 trace:dinput:find_joydevs ... with axis 6: cur=135, min=0, max=255, fuzz=0, flat=15 trace:dinput:find_joydevs ... with axis 16: cur=0, min=-1, max=1, fuzz=0, flat=0 trace:dinput:find_joydevs ... with axis 17: cur=0, min=-1, max=1, fuzz=0, flat=0 trace:dinput:IDirectInputWImpl_EnumDevices - checking device 3 ('Wine Linux joystick driver') trace:dinput:IDirectInputWImpl_EnumDevices (this=0x135728,0x0004 'DIDEVTYPE_JOYSTICK',0x40bec0,0x590f80,0001) Not sure if it's exactly the same model as my old gamepad: Gullemot Dual Analog