Ubuntu 10.04, to be exact. I installed the DOSBox that comes out of the "Universe" repository. My problems are 2-fold:

1. I seem to have problems calibrating my joystick for the game. I can't calibrate it properly for Wing Commander II. When I test the pointer on the title screen, it seems I can move it much faster right and down than I can left or up. However, when I run jstest on the host, it tells me that both axes are able to go from -(2^16 - 1) to 2^16 - 1. That looks like the maxima to me. Is there an in-program calibrator so that I can see the performance of my joystick in DOSBox?
2. I'm able to move the pointer around normally (just a bit slow in some directions) but when I get into a cockpit and I move the stick in a certain direction, it only wants to stay there for a second, and then it returns to the centre. I think that might be the mouse's interference, since I do see a mouse cursor as well. Can I kill the mouse? This may be related to another problem I'm having with the joystick hijacking the mouse pointer in the host.