Problems with touchpad while playing games on kubuntu 9.04

[Gmafz7]

Hello there I'm a complete noob here, recently I've installed this linux distro and I like it very much. Had some problems with sound and video but managed to solved them and I'm getting the hang of it, well my major problem now is when I play games, for example supertuxkart (among others).
When i played it for the first time it was fine but when I wanted to configure the controls, I couldn't because every time I wanted to change the input it appeared something like this:
joy 0 eje 1 ++ (eje means axis, I'm using spanish), then the game screenbegins blinkin uncontrollably and is really hard to select an option from the menu. I googled this but no luck, please someone help me with this issue, I went to System preferences to check the mouse and keyboard configuration and noticed there is a joystick section too, and then I saw that the axis values are constantly changin and I don't have any gamepad/joystick connected.
I don't what to do, please help I don't want to leave this OS already (I won't jeje I don't give up easily. )

[GreyGeek]

Re: Problems with touchpad while playing games on kubuntu 9.04

I can think of two possible solutions:

Open a Konsole and issue

lsmod | less

and look for joystick modules. If you see them issue

sudo rmmod whatevertheirnameis


Or, download sysv-rc-config, which is a console services management app, and run it by opening a Konsole (make it as tall as the screen) and issuing:

sudo sysv-rc-config

and then scroll the list and look for a joystick service. If you find it move the cursor to the "X" and touch the space bar. Then hit "Q" to exit.

[Gmafz7]

Re: Problems with touchpad while playing games on kubuntu 9.04

I think I didn't configured correctly this post to receive email updates, sorry for not answering in I don't know how many days, I will try those options but know I have a BIGGER problem, I upgraded to Karmic Koala today(1/11/09), and have had several issues. But I will post it in a new thread cause nobody might see it here. Thank you when I fix up the OS I will post again.