Ignoramus30661 wrote:
Bought a new Saitek P880 joypad at a garage sale ($2).

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Hi:
You may want to check out:
http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/powermate

It's a nice optical encoder to USB device.

Also look at http:freshmeat.net/projects/evrouter
for Linux support.

I've been using one, for about 4 years, and no ploblems.
The driver module is "powermate.ko"

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