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Subject: |
freedink: Mouse cursor keeps going up - game unplayable |
Date: |
Sun, 14 Oct 2012 21:23:17 +0200 |
Package: freedink
Version: 1.08.20120427-2.1
Severity: important
Right after installing game with `sudo aptitude install freedink`, I tried to
running
the game but it suffered from a strange behavior: the mouse cursor was
constanatly going
up by itself.
While quite tricky, it was still possible to "fight" the movement soi I was
able to hit
"Start" from the main menu, but that turned out to be not such a good idea.
After the
initial dialog, all Dink would do was push the north wall on and on. And this
time the
motion was not possible to overcome---All I could do was to switch to console
(using
C-A-F6) and kill the process.
My machine is ThinkPad R500 and the mouse is Microsoft Arc, although I doubt
this was
related to mouse as the pproblem persisted even after pulling receiver (the
mouse is
a wireless one) out of USB slot.
Also: I ran the game from Xfce.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages freedink depends on:
ii freedink-dfarc 3.10-1.1
ii freedink-engine 1.08.20120427-2.1
freedink recommends no packages.
freedink suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Subject: |
Re: [Bug-freedink] Bug#690483: freedink: Mouse cursor keeps going up - game unplayable |
Date: |
Sun, 20 Oct 2013 16:59:46 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
Hi,
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 08:56:49AM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Am 16.10.2012 01:25, schrieb Alois Mahdal:
> >[info ] 2 joysticks were found.
> >[info ] The names of the joysticks are:
> >[info ] ThinkPad HDAPS joystick emulation
> >[info ] ThinkPad HDAPS accelerometer data
> >[info ] Picking the first one...
> >[info ] Name: ThinkPad HDAPS joystick emulation
> >[info ] Number of axes: 2
> >[info ] Number of buttons: 0
> >[info ] Number of balls: 0
> >[info ] Number of hats: 0
>
> It interprets your laptop's accelerometer as a joystick device. This
> is nearly guaranteed to cause trouble, see here for more
> information:
>
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/HDAPS
So I can only say that the accelerometer can cause troubles in games,
nothing I can do about it in FreeDink. This will be documented in the
next release's TROUBLESHOOTING.txt.
Cheers!
Sylvain
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