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Package: xgalaga
Version: 2.1.1.0-3
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream
We currently have options for keyboard and mouse control. We could do with
an additional option for joystick devices here.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i386)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-1-486
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages xgalaga depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-4 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 2:1.1.2-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxmu6 2:1.0.5-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.8-1 X11 pixmap library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.1.0-2 X11 XFree86 video mode extension l
xgalaga recommends no packages.
xgalaga suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Version: 2.1.1.0-8
15 years later...
Hi Mark,
On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 12:44:50 +0100 (BST) Mark Hobley
<[email protected]> wrote:
We currently have options for keyboard and mouse control. We could do with
an additional option for joystick devices here.
Support for joystick have been implemented for xgalaga in 2003, long
before you asked :-)
See https://bugs.debian.org/190241
But unfortunately, it has been "broken" for almost 20 years :-/
Long story: the original code from 2003 tries to access the joystick via
the device node /dev/js0
But the path of this device node moved to /dev/input/js0 a long time ago
(circa 2005~2006 I would say) and the code was never updated.
I just uploaded a new version (2.1.1.0-8) that has the path updated.
Cheers,
Sébastien
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