Bug#457700: alien-arena: mouse constantly looks up

[Jon Dowland]

Package: alien-arena
Version: 6.05-4.1
Severity: minor

Hello,

I'm finding that as soon as mouse input is received, AA has
a constant upwards motion that makes the view look up. You
can fight it by moving the mouse down, but you have to
more-or-less keep it moving permanently. It makes the game
unplayable for me.

I experience the same thing with quake2, weirdly enough,
but not quake3.

I have three mouse input device (a USB mouse, and an
ultranav keyboard which has a trackpoint and a trackpad).
I've disabled each in turn with sysfs to see if one of them
was the culprit, but it occurs with any combination or any
of them in isolation.

I don't get drag in X generally and the evdev devices are
quiet when the mouse isn't moving.

UPDATE: I've just removed ~/.alien-arena and that solved
it. Foolishly I didn't move it aside and inspect the
contents first.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages alien-arena depends on:
ii  alien-arena-data              6.05-1     Game data files for Alien Arena
ii  libc6                         2.7-5      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]      7.0.2-3    A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]        7.0.2-3    The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii  libjpeg62                     6b-14      The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libsdl1.2debian               1.2.12-3   Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.0.3-7  X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6                      1:1.0.3-2  X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxxf86dga1                  2:1.0.2-1  X11 Direct Graphics Access extensi
ii  libxxf86vm1                   1:1.0.1-2  X11 XFree86 video mode extension l

alien-arena recommends no packages.

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