Bug#559615: boswars: uncontrollable with Wacom tablet when in full-screen mode

[Kalle Olavi Niemitalo]

Package: boswars
Version: 2.5-2
Severity: normal

I wanted to play BOS Wars using a Wacom Bamboo CTE-650 tablet.  Unfortunately, the mouse cursor is practically impossible to control with that when BOS Wars is in full-screen mode.  It seems the position of the pen on the tablet is controlling the velocity of the mouse cursor, rather than the position.  There is a tiny spot on the tablet where the cursor stays stable.  Move the pen even a millimeter and the cursor wildly swings to the edge of the screen.

The game seems to work okay in a window, however; the bug is specific to the full-screen mode.

I run a custom build of Mesa here to enable r600 support.  That should however have no effect on this bug because (1) I did not enable OpenGL in BOS Wars and (2) AFAIK Mesa has nothing to do with input devices anyway.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages boswars depends on:
ii  boswars-data           2.5-2             Images, data, and music files for 
ii  libc6                  2.10.2-2          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                1:4.4.2-3         GCC support library
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl 7.6-1.kon.1       A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  liblua5.1-0            5.1.4-5           Simple, extensible, embeddable pro
ii  libogg0                1.1.4~dfsg-1      Ogg bitstream library
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.41-1          PNG library - runtime
ii  libsdl1.2debian        1.2.13-5          Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libstdc++6             4.4.2-3           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtheora0             1.1.1-2           The Theora Video Compression Codec
ii  libvorbis0a            1.2.3-3           The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libx11-6               2:1.3.2-1         X11 client-side library
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime

boswars recommends no packages.

boswars suggests no packages.

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