Keyrah Joysticks stopped working after vice upgrade

[chmaruni]

I built a raspberry pi with retropie and a keyrah into an old C64 and it worked perfectly out of the box. In addition to two competition pro Joysticks I also have two USB Nintendo controllers attached.

Recently I accidentally upgraded vice (I picked "update/install all opt modules") and the joysticks stopped working in C64 Games in vice. I even removed the module and built again from source but that didn't help.

In Vice, hen I go into Machine Settings->Joystick Settings->Define Keysets, I see that the two joysticks are recognized as Keypad 0 to Keypad 9, so keyrah is still working. However, when I go into Joystick Mapping and choose, e.g., "up", vice is polling but doesn't seem to recognize my joysticks. It does recognize the USB controllers and accepts those however.

I assume that somehow the vice config got messed up but I have no idea how to fix it. Restore default settings doesn't help either.

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks

[chmaruni]

@chmaruni hm, so I set all Joysticks to "none", saved the settings, and then turned them back on to use the Keysets 1 and 2 which I polled from the Joysticks and now the Joysticks are working again. However, my sound is gone now, which used to work. Sound still works when I use other Retropie emulators, so it's just Vice.

[chmaruni]

@chmaruni in case anybody else has this problem: I upgraded everything, including upgrading the distro from Jessie to Stretch, then upgraded all the retropie modules, and then (and that was important) I deleted the sdl-vicerc config file. After that, sound and joysticks are working again. Deleting the config without the distro upgrade didn't work for me. Anyhow, seems to be working again.