Bug#884595: powermanga: Controls didn't work

[Michael Biebl]

Control: tags -1 + moreinfo

On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 22:24:15 +0100 Markus Koschany <apo at debian.org> wrote:
> 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.

I don't have access to such a device, but it looks like this device node
/dev/input/js0 is created by the kernel.
Please elaborate why this is supposed to be a bug in udev.



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