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Also found a typo on pasting the /usr/local/bin/spacenav-python.py : line 9 should be "print(sn)". The parentheses were dropped. /usr/local/bin/spacenav-python.py #!/usr/bin/python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import evdev from evdev import InputDevice, categorize, ecodes, UInput import time im...

It is also necessary to have loaded the uinput kernel module, eg with

/etc/modules-load.d/spacenav.conf

Feb 2021: On both a Debian and a Gentoo system, I could not get a SpaceNavigator 046d:c626 to register as a joystick, unlike a SpacePilot Pro 046d:c629 which still worked with the instruction from https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SpaceNavigator and similar elsewhere, using driver "joystick" in...