http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7800
--- Comment #46 from Brice Terzaghi abelthorne@hotmail.com 2008-06-13 11:34:29 --- (In reply to comment #45)
Anyone who have this problem now - check their joystick calibration. The original problem was fixed. What you seeing now might noise around center position - exactly what dead-zone should eliminate.
Right. I've just recalibrated my joypad (using jscal in command line) and it works.