pymike, in svn there are some printf's in the joystick.c
So if you try it with revision 2131 it should print out the results from what the SDL functions get back.
compilation docs here: http://pygame.org/wiki/CompileUbuntu
cheers,
I checked it out and installed, but I checked versions and apparently pygame 1.8.1 is the current version.
>>> import pygame
>>> pygame.version.vernum
(1, 8, 1)
>>>
Running the new-feature-examples worked, so maybe the version attribute hasn't been updated?
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- pymike