Bug#664546: laptop accelerometer disturbs SDL and frozen-bubble

[Dominique Dumont]

Hello

I've reproduced the problem on my HP laptop. 

Turns out that some (all ?) hp laptop have an embedded accelerometer to 
protect the disks in case of mechanical shock. This accelerometer is handled 
by joydev kernel module and is seen as a joystick by frozen-bubble. 

This device is constantly sending key events to sdl loop. This triggers the 
issue with the highscrore screen (and the keybind screen: this is the screen 
that told me something was wrong with the joystick).

Currently, the only work-around I've found it to remove the joydev kernel 
module.

I guess that frozen-bubble should have an option to ignore the joystick or 
(and ?) have dedicated code to ignore accelerometer type joysticks.

I'm going to forward this bug upstream.

Hope this helps 

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