http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4788
Summary: wine should look for joystick devices in /dev/input Product: Wine Version: 0.9.9. Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: wine-misc AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: yangman@gmail.com
I'm not absolutely clear on the specifics, but at least for kernel 2.6.*, joydev module creates js* devices in /dev/input as opposed to /dev
Since wine still looks for /dev/js*, joystick support is broken.