Microsoft Sidewinder Mouse segfault Plib

[Ralph Glass]

Binary package hint: flightgear

When the Microsoft Sidewinder Mouse is plugged in, fgfs (flightgear) and js_demo (joystick test programm) both stop with segmentation faults.

This is experienced on Ubuntu 8.04 and Flightgear 1.0.0, Plib 1.8.4

Workarounds:
#1 unplug your Sidewinder Mouse, fgfs and js_demo work without segfault

#2 In /dev/input there is a joystick entry for my Mouse (dev/input/js0 on my system - checked with cat dev/input/js0 - some mouse buttons are detected as joystick buttons). When the entry is deleted (root only) fgfs and js_demo work just fine without segfaulting and the mouse is still operating fine. (After you unplug and replug your mouse, the dev/input/ entry will be recreated.)

(Problem should be probably related to Plib)

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 or 9.04?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.