I was going to suggest the new HID code as another possible thing to
consider, but I didn't want to just go blaming someone else's code. :-)
Curt.
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Tom P wrote:
> That was a good hint, because I looked at the property tree, and on 9.04 I
> see an extra item, /input/joysticks/js
>
> Weird, I think, I don't have a joystick.
>
> Turns out 9.04 recognized the internal accelerometer on my laptop as a
> input source and I can control the airplane by tilting the laptop!!!!!
> LOL, what a blast!
>
> Not sure if it's a feature, but it made my day!
>
> Tom
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Curtis Olson <curtol...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Tom P wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I was wondering if anyone has seen a weird input behaviour on Ubuntu
>>> 9.04.
>>> I'm building from HEAD but even building an old version (7/15) shows the
>>> same behaviour.
>>>
>>> Basically the throttle and surface inputs are received, but controls are
>>> "re-centered" from time to time, like it would be the case if someone
>>> continuously pressed '5'.
>>> Plus the throttle is forced to 50%.
>>>
>>> It doesn't seem to be my hardware because on the same laptop I've built
>>> FG from HEAD and ran on Ubuntu 9.10 alpha (Karmic Koala) without a problem
>>> in the past.
>>> Any hint will help, thanks
>>
>>
>> The only time I have seen something similar is when I forgot I had a
>> joystick still plugged in. As long as the joystick inputs don't change from
>> the previous step then I think the joystick is mostly ignored and you can
>> fly with keyboard and mouse, but if anything gets bumped or jittered you
>> momentarily snap to the joystick position.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Curt.
>> --
>> Curtis Olson:
>> http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/<http://baron.flightgear.org/%7Ecurt/>
>>
>>
>
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