[Bug-freedink] Bug#690483: marked as done (freedink: Mouse cursor keeps going up - game unplayable)

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> freedink: Mouse cursor keeps going up - game unplayable
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> Sun, 14 Oct 2012 21:23:17 +0200
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> Package: freedink
> Version: 1.08.20120427-2.1
> Severity: important
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Also: I ran the game from Xfce.
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> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
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> 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
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> Versions of packages freedink depends on:
> ii  freedink-dfarc   3.10-1.1
> ii  freedink-engine  1.08.20120427-2.1
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> freedink recommends no packages.
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> freedink suggests no packages.
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> -- no debconf information
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> Sun, 20 Oct 2013 16:59:46 +0200
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> Hi,
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> 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
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> > It interprets your laptop's accelerometer as a joystick device. This
> > is nearly guaranteed to cause trouble, see here for more
> > information:
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> > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/HDAPS
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> 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.
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> Cheers!
> Sylvain
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