Open supertuxkart-sourceforge-migration opened 10 years ago
Author: hikerstk Add this name (or at least a substring of it) to the names to be ignored. Ignoring the device in the settings solves the issue. For the record the exact device name after ignoring it is:
<gamepad name ="ThinkPad HDAPS accelerometer data" enabled="false">
Author: shuber2
On my notebook (Thinkpad X220), supertuxkart-0.8.1 failed to steer right when pressing the corresponding cursor key on the keyboard. After debugging the code I realized that PA_STEER_RIGHT actions arrive at the controller classes in high frequency even though no keys are pressed. This obviously caused the car not to steer right. The source for these events was the "ThinkPad HDAPS accelerometer data" joystick device.
This is per se no bug in the logic of supertuxkart, but a very hard to track down misconfiguration. I am not sure how to handle this issue but here are a few proposals:
Migrated-From: https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/supertuxkart/ticket/1111