wine users - May 2009 - City of Heroes control problem. Keys repeat.

The problem is that when moving (the most obvious activity you can see this
with) the key you press acts like it's being pressed in rapid succession
instead of being held down. That is until another key is pressed then the
previous key moves the character smoothly. This might be a problem with my
keyboard though. But I'm putting this out there just in case anybody else
has the same problem.

I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 with WINE 1.1.20 and the latest patches for the OS
and game.

Yeah, I tried my USB ZBoard and it has the same problems. Not a keyboard
problem. The reason why I thought it was my keyboard is because my PS/2
keyboard's connector is flaky, but I guess that's not the problem.

ThePenciler wrote:
> The problem is that when moving (the most obvious activity you can see this
with) the key you press acts like it's being pressed in rapid succession
instead of being held down.
Is your OS using any extra type of keyboard control/input? I don't know 
about Ubuntu, in Fedora you find this in System>Personal>Keyboard. 
Sometimes that being active will mess with wine/game keyboard controls.

Evil Jay wrote:
> I see the problem too, and I'm doubting it has to do with the
OS/distro,
> since it doesn't affect any other applications (even games).  Only
> Wine's DInput routines appear to be confused, so that's the most
likely
> place that a logic error has occurred.
Wrong. If you think it's dinput - use native. I'm sure you'll see
the same exact problem.

tparker wrote:
> Check and see if you have SCIM enabled or installed. Remove SCIM and 
> anything the OS wants to take with it, also remove any version of 
> libgxim and anything tied to it, then retest. Those two are common 
> enough problems that, if nothing else, eliminating them will be sure 
> they are not your problem.

Ah. Ok, I uninstalled SCIM and all the items it wanted to uninstall with it. And
I couldn't find anything related to libgxim (so I had nothing to uninstall).
I then restarted and it still happens. :(

tparker wrote:
> ThePenciler wrote:
> 
> > Ah. Ok, I uninstalled SCIM and all the items it wanted to uninstall
with it. And I couldn't find anything related to libgxim (so I had nothing
to uninstall). I then restarted and it still happens. :(
> > 
> 
> I just tried COH in 1.1.20 (fresh build from source, no patches) to see 
> if I could make mine have the same problem, but no luck, typing and 
> movement both worked as normal.

I have a bad feeling about this now. :(

> Is your wine install a straight source build or did you add any patches 
> in, if so which ones?

No patches. Just WINE.

> Have you played before without having this problem or is this your first 
> try at it through wine?

I've played CoH for at least 2 years with WINE before having this problem.

> If it worked before, have you updated your OS, 
> changed any hardware or input related software between it working and 
> not?

The only thing I've done is upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04 from 8.10.

> Have you used one of the funky keyboards with it's own drivers that 
> might still be on the system and conflicting with something?

Nope, I was using my plain vanilla IBM PS/2 105 key keyboard (model number
KB-9910 Rev: E02). Non-multimedia. Looks like the old Mac keyboards, but with
the Windows key. I'm now using a ZBoard without any special software. Both
keyboards have the same problem with the plain vanilla IBM PS/2 keyboard having
the problem first. And I've been using the IBM keyboard (it's NOT a
multimedia keyboard) all this time until I started having this problem. Then I
attempted to troubleshoot by using the only USB keyboard I have which is my
ZBoard WITHOUT trying to find and install any special software to get the
multimedia keys to work. REPEAT: I have not installed any software for the
ZBoard. It's working as a normal unmodified 105 key keyboard.

> I'm mostly 
> just tossing out ideas to try and find a place for you to start tracking 
> the problem down.

It could be the upgrade from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04. If it is the only way I can
think of to be sure is to sipe the hard drive and reinstall 9.04 from a CD. If
that's the case then I can stand having the problem in CoH since it really
doesn't impact performance. Just a little annoying if I forget to tap a
second key to get the first key to work right.

Ok, to get some inter-forum love going, here's the link to the topic I
posted.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7198575#post7198575

As usual I wasn't sure where to post this as it covers many topics such as
upgrading, games and third party software. :\