Oh, but that's why I tested also a build from 7/15, I just wanted to exclude
that.
Looking closely, I found a reference to this problem on the forum
afterwards:
http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=4880
and, yeah, I can confirm that the accelerometer is usable to control the
plane (think of "a much heavier version of the iPhone"). Funny!
Tom
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Curtis Olson <curtol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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