hi again, pymike, in svn there are some printf's in the joystick.c
So if you try it with revision 2131 it should print out the results from what the SDL functions get back. compilation docs here: http://pygame.org/wiki/CompileUbuntu cheers, On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:10 PM, René Dudfield <ren...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi, > > This is the joystick bug email thread from before... > > > There's a thread on the SDL mailing list about how linux/ubuntu have > changed things... for no good reason it seems. > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.sdl/40019 > > pymike: are you around sometime to help me debug? Otherwise I'll need to > pick up a joystick again (I gave away all of mine when I moved stupidly). > > Here's the ubuntu bugs page for SDL... I suggest submitting a bug report > there (if you have already, please send me the bug link?): > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+source/libsdl1.2 > > That's the best place to report this bug to get it fixed I think. However > we still might be able to implement a work-around if needed. > > > > > cheers, > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:03 AM, pymike <pymik...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> We're getting "Invalid Hat Number" and some odd indexing errors in one >> game. I'll post the exact errors here in a bit. Basically, it's just not >> reading the hats or axes. I've tried both gamepads and joysticks, and get >> the same errors. >> >> Cheers, >> >> >> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:33 PM, René Dudfield <ren...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> hi again, >>> >>> Just a note for help in debugging, that pygame joystick support didn't >>> change between pygame 1.8.0 and 1.8.1. However there were a few small >>> changes between 1.7.1 and 1.8.0. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 4:31 PM, René Dudfield <ren...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > hi, >>> > >>> > thanks for the report. >>> > >>> > I think ubuntu/linux might have changed their joystick support >>> > somehow. I read as much not long ago, but haven't looked into it yet. >>> > >>> > >>> > What are the errors? Are they segfaults, or are exceptions raised? >>> > Or something else? >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > cheers. >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 5:30 AM, pymike <pymik...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >> Hi all, >>> >> >>> >> Me and my friend are having trouble with joysticks in pygame 1.8.1. >>> We're >>> >> both running Ubuntu 8.10 (on different machines in different >>> countries) >>> >> >>> >> Basically, joysticks are initializing fine. joystick.get_button() also >>> is >>> >> working. However, when printing joystick.get_numhats() and >>> >> joystick.get_numaxes(), we're getting a zero. Obviously, executing >>> >> joystick.get_hat(0) and joystick.get_axis(0) gives us errors. We've >>> also >>> >> tried running some pygames that use joysticks, and they crash due to >>> >> hat/ball errors. >>> >> >>> >> However, I've tried some other SDL games that use joysticks, and they >>> all >>> >> work perfectly. Help? >>> >> >>> >> Thanks, >>> >> >>> >> -- >>> >> - pymike >>> >> "Python eggs me on." >>> >> >>> > >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> - pymike >> "Python eggs me on." >> > >
