Package: zsnes Version: 1.420-2.1 Severity: normal zsnes seems to work fine on my system, except that after I change video mode, the dialog asking me to press any key stays there no matter how many keys I press. I traced into the code, and it looks like the problem is the loop in gui.asm line 2842. The program thinks for some reason that I have a joystick plugged in, and furthermore thinks that the joystick has a button pressed. Because of this, it just spins forever waiting for me to release the button (I suppose so it can spin waiting for me to press it again).
I'm not sure why it thinks I have a button pressed. As far as I can tell, it thinks my USB keyboard is some weird joystick: Device 0 Microsft Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop� 2.20 37 axis, 12 buttons, 0 hats, 0 balls I can't imagine how a keyboard could have 37 axes, so my guess is that it's reading data from the keyboard and trying to interpret it as joystick data, resulting in bizarre effects. Garbage in, garbage out. Disabling the joystick device (module joydev) makes this work for now, but obviously won't if I connect a real joystick. It seems like the best thing for zsnes to do would be to just wait for a BUTTON_DOWN, MOUSE_DOWN, or KEY_DOWN event, rather than manually checking button states. Failing that, I wonder if it would be reasonable to code the program to ignore joysticks with more than (eg) 10 axes, on the grounds that any such device is probably spurious. Daniel -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages zsnes depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-20 GCC support library ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 6.5.1-0.4 A free implementation of the OpenG ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-7 PNG library - runtime ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.11-7 Simple DirectMedia Layer ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-20 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime zsnes recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
