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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0001304 | FSSCP | gameplay | public | 2007-02-28 07:35 | 2007-03-23 20:28 |
| Reporter | jorenko | Assigned To | taylor | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | major | Reproducibility | N/A |
| Status | resolved | Resolution | no change required | ||
| Product Version | 3.6.10 | ||||
| Summary | 0001304: Constantly turning down and left | ||||
| Description | Upon entering play, the controls seem to be locked into turning toward the bottom-left corner of the screen, causing the ship to spiral in place. Moving my mouse effects the angle of my turn, but as soon as I stop moving it, my angle returns to the bottom-left. The numpad controls have no effect. I do not have connected, nor do I own a joystick. My mouse is a Logitech MX800 (USB, wireless). | ||||
| Additional Information | I built and installed fs2_open from cvs on linux yesterday (2/26/07) as instructed by the article here: http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Fs2_open_on_Linux. I'm new to the scene, and haven't played any incarnation of freespace before. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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Disabling Pitch Axis and Turn (Yaw) Axis controls seems to mitigate the problem, with the caveat that I have no mouse control. This is likely related to my lack of a joystick. |
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Another hour of forums searching has given me my answer: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,45480.0.html I have a Microsoft Digital MediaPro Keyboard which apparently has a component that is detected as a joystick. Its model number is 1031. The workaround seems to be to: export SDL_JOYSTICK_DEVICE=/dev/null This leaves me able to use my mouse for control since I don't have a joystick. I suppose if you actually did have a joystick you'd want to set this to the correct /dev/input/jsX. This can be downgraded since it can be worked around, but should probably be left open in case it can be fixed more gracefully in the future. |
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After thinking about this for a while, I don't really think there is anything we can do on our end which can properly deal with a situation like this. This will mostly likely need to be something that is resolved either in SDL or the kernel drivers themsevles (to get centering working properly). I'm just going to close this as not-a-bug, but I'll keep an eye on it and if I can think of anything in the future that we can do to fix problems like this one I'll come back to it. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2007-02-28 07:35 | jorenko | New Issue | |
| 2007-02-28 08:19 | jorenko | Note Added: 0007759 | |
| 2007-02-28 08:19 | jorenko | Note Edited: 0007759 | |
| 2007-02-28 08:21 | jorenko | Note Edited: 0007759 | |
| 2007-02-28 08:46 | jorenko | Note Added: 0007760 | |
| 2007-03-23 20:28 | taylor | Note Added: 0007889 | |
| 2007-03-23 20:28 | taylor | Status | new => resolved |
| 2007-03-23 20:28 | taylor | Resolution | open => no change required |
| 2007-03-23 20:28 | taylor | Assigned To | => taylor |
