[ Thanks to Lyle for this link. ]
“During the past few weeks I’ve continued to work on
getting X-Plane to function well on my Core i7 Ubuntu 10.04 box .
It has been a long journey, and I’ve learned many things. As of
now, I have my joystick hat button working with Jhat, and I have
frame rates that vary from 30 to 60 fps while I’m flying. After
struggling for hours to get Jhat to through the shell script that
comes with it, I decided to just make my own shell script. Instead
of looking for the name of the Joystick, I just had it look for the
joystick device..”