Bug#714399: a7xpg: spaceship drifts to upper left corner of screen making gameplay impossible

[Peter De Wachter]

Hello Jason,

Even though you don't have a joystick, can you run jstest-gtk (from
the package with the same name) anway? I suspect that some device
driver in your system is masquerading as a joystick (perhaps a driver
for an accelerometer chip or something like that).

Can you also send the contents of /proc/bus/input/devices?

Regards,
Peter

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 9:36 PM, Jason Quinn <jason.lee.quinn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Your sentence that says "when you can't reproduce such an apparently
> obvious issue" that makes it sound as if I'm doing something wrong.
> It's clear you intend to say that you cannot reproduce the issue but
> your phrasing could be improved.
>
> I do not have a joystick. The keyboard is attached to a laptop. I have
> not tried the game recently on another computer but if I get the
> chance I will. As I wrote before, I believe I have already seen this
> issue on multiple machines (likely on another Dell laptop at minimum)
> but it's been a long time since I would have tried and I don't recall
> anything for certain.
>
> As for seeing more people report the bug, this an an obscure game.
> When you start with the small fraction of people running Debian and
> multiply it by the fraction of people who actually install this game
> and then multiply by the fraction of people who experience the bug,
> and then multiply the fraction of people who report bugs (which is
> canonically taken to be about 1 in 100 users) , you are getting down
> to a small number of expected bug reports... perhaps on the order of
> one like just me. While it's interesting that you do not experience
> the bug, I assure you the bug does happen for me; and your message
> almost makes it sound like you dismiss the concept of bugs that depend
> on various external issues or even hardware. It's far from obvious to
> me that we should have seen more confirms in this case and I also note
> the lack of additional "works for me" comments. So please don't
> dismiss my report as if you are sceptical of the problem that *I'm*
> experiencing because just because you don't see it.
>
> Jason
>