Dear wine user group I removed the whole installation under the root path and reinstalled the application to the user directory -thanks to mr. vitamin. But the effect is the same - the usb interface has not be enabled although the driver works correctly, see jstest /dev/input/js0 -> Driver version is 2.1.0. Joystick (IPACS Ikarus Gamecommander) has 7 axes (X, Y, Z, Rx, Ry, Rz, Throttle) and 6 buttons (Trigger, ThumbBtn, ThumbBtn2, TopBtn, TopBtn2, PinkieBtn). Testing ... (interrupt to exit) Axes: 0: 0 1: 0 2: 0 3: 0 4: 0 5: 0 6: 0 Butt Axes: 0: 0 1: 0 2: 0 3: 0 4: 0 5: 0 6: 0 Butt Axes: 0: 0 1: 0 2: 0 3: 0 4: 0 5: 0 6: 0 Butt Axes: 0: 0 1: 0 2: 0 3: 0 4: 0 5: 0 6: 0 Butt Axes: 0: 0 1: 0 2: 0 3: 0 4: 0 5: 0 6: 0 Butt Axes: 0: 0 1: 0 2: 0 3: 0 4: 0 5: 0 6: 0 Butt Axes: 0:-16891 1: 0 2: 0 3: 0 4: 0 5: 0 6: 0 Butt Axes: 0:-16891 1:-17229 2: 0 3: 0 4: 0 5: 0 6: 0 Butt Axes: 0:-16891 1:-17229 2:-20269 3: 0 4: 0 5: 0 6: 0 Butt Axes: 0:-16891 1:-17229 2:-20269 3:-32767 4: 0 5: 0 6: 0 Butt Axes: 0:-16891 1:-17229 2:-20269 3:-32767 4:-32767 5: 0 6: 0 Butt Axes: 0:-16891 1:-17229 2:-20269 3:-32767 4:-32767 5:-17229 6: 0 Butt Axes: 0:-16891 1:-17229 2:-20269 3:-32767 4:-32767 5:-17229 6:-32431 Butt Axes: 0:-17229 1:-17229 2:-20269 3:-32767 4:-32767 5:-17229 6:-32431 Butt ons: 0:on 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off During the installation of the simulator an icon was placed on the desktop. This has following properties: command: env WINEPREFIX="/home/joerg.kuehne/.wine" wine "C:\Programme\IPACS\AeroFly Professional Deluxe\flyrun.exe" working directory: /home/joerg.kuehne/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Programme/IPACS/AeroFly Professional Deluxe May someone has an idea how I get to the debug information in the console -> WINEDEBUG=+dinput wine your_program.exe Or may someone has an idea how I could map the usb device to the application? thanks in advance. best regards. joerg -- Ist Ihr Browser Vista-kompatibel? Jetzt die neuesten Browser-Versionen downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/browser