Bug#690483: freedink: Mouse cursor keeps going up - game unplayable

[Sylvain]

Hi,

"Cursor/Dink going up" is usually related to your joystick - do you have one?

You can otherwise desactivate Dink with either Alt+Tab (switch window,
from your window manager) or Alt+Q (quit Dink).

Cheers!
Sylvain

On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 09:23:17PM +0200, Alois Mahdal wrote:
> 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