Bug#288432: supertux: Joystick does not work

[Francesco Poli]

On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:44:52 -0700 Vincent Cheng wrote:

> Hi Francesco,

Hello Vincent!

> 
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Francesco Poli
> <invernomuto at paranoici.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 02:43:57 +0200 Pierre Pronchery wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >> So, basically, if you want supertux tu
> >> use your joystick as is, use the "-j" flag on the command line (more
> >> options are available to alter the mapping).
> > [...]
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> > what's the status of this bug?
> 
> I've no idea, because I don't have a joystick to confirm this bug
> and/or test any patches (hence I've just left this sitting here in the
> BTS when I first adopted supertux).

Well, I happen to have a joypad: it has sat on a shelf for a long time,
but now I am beginning to see what I can do with it under GNU/Linux (at
last!).

> 
> > I tried to use a joypad with supertux myself (on an updated Debian
> > testing box) and I experienced the issue originally reported by Stefan:
> 
> That means you're using the 0.1.x release, right? Can you please
> upgrade your supertux packages to 0.3.x in experimental and see if
> this is still reproducible?

I upgraded to supertux/0.3.3-5 from experimental and, during these
days, I have tested it a bit.

Wow! The game was improved in many many respects: I am really impressed!
Kudos to the upstream developers!

There are some issues (which I will describe in separate bug reports)
and the program spits out lots of warnings to stderr such as:

[WARNING] /tmp/buildd/supertux-0.3.3/src/video/texture_manager.cpp:52
Texture '/images/tiles/water/waves-trans-2.png' not freed

but, overall, the game is much better than before, my joypad is
recognized like a charm, it works correctly and there's an in-game
joystick input configuration menu.


[...]
> >
> > Anyway, I am not sure I understand what Pierre's patch is supposed to
> > do.
> > Has it already been applied?
> > If not, why?
> > Has it already been forwarded upstream?
> > If not, why?
> 
> AFAIK, no and no. Development has shifted onto supertux's 0.3 branch,
> so I'd appreciate it if someone with a joystick can review, update,
> and test the patch with 0.3.x before forwarding it upstream. :)

Before testing the patch, we should understand what it is supposed to
do...

> 
> > Is there any chance that supertux gets a proper in-game configuration
> > menu for joypad input?
> 
> No idea, sorry.

I can now reply to myself: there is indeed an in-game configuration
menu for joystick/joypad input in supertux/0.3.3-5 and it seems to work.

As far as I can tell, I am under the impression that this bug report
may be closed as fixed in supertux/0.3.3-5 ...


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