So... does anyone that follows me know their way around the Linux USB HID joystick/gamepad system?

I'm using a BetaFPV LiteRadio 3 radio control transmitter as a controller for drone simulators. It *almost* Just Works in a rather annoying way. It gets detected as a USB joystick (hidraw5 USB HID v1.11 Joystick) and gets bound to /dev/input/js0, where jstest reports it as having 7 axes and 0 buttons. The problem is that it should be a joystick with *8* axes and 0 buttons (4 axes for the 2 sticks, 2 3-position switches, & 2 2 position switches). Whenever I plug it in one of the 8 axes will be randomly disabled, and the remaining 7 axes will be randomly shuffled. Consequently I have to remap the controller in the game config every time I want to use it, a process that sometimes involves unplugging it and plugging it back in several times until all 4 of the stick axes are functioning (I've given up on using the switches).

Is this something that I could fix with a cunning udev rule or something, or am I stuffed? My web searching has so far failed to find anything useful.

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