Bug#884595: powermanga: Controls didn't work

[Markus Koschany]

Control: reassign -1 udev
Control: retitle -1 udev creates a fake joystick device for MS mouse
Control: found -1 175-7.2
Control: found -1 235-3

Am 17.12.2017 um 22:05 schrieb Antoni Villalonga:
> Hi,
> 
>> I believe a similar issue was reported a while ago and I also had some
>> troubles with alienblaster a while back because my keyboard was detected
>> as a joystick. Eventually we reassigned the bug report to udev.
>>
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=711350
>>
>> If you tell me what type of keyboard you use I could reassign this issue
>> to udev as well. I don't believe that SDL or powermanga are at fault
>> here.
> 
> You were right, my 5 buttons mouse is detected like a joystick (/dev/input/js0):
>   ID 045e:075c Microsoft Corp.
> 
> Thanks!

I am going to reassign this bug report to udev because I believe this
issue is related to #711350. A 5 button Microsoft Mouse is detected as a
joystick. This in turn will confuse the SDL library and games like
powermanga will become hard or even impossible to control.

Regards,

Markus


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