Hi all. This is my first post here... sorry if this topic was already discussed, but I could not find anything related. In applications run with wine, especially games (but not only) one or more keys seem to be pressed. I mean, even if I don't even touch the keyboard, the program thinks I continuously press UP ARROW and/or RIGHT ARROW. This happens regardless of applications. Sometimes I can play hours with absolutely no problem, than I am suddenly getting continuous forwoard or other key. Or in some applications (for example a word processor like application) when I get with the mouse outside of the edit area, it starts to scroll continuously up or down, left or right. I repeat, this happens independent of the application. Same application can work for days without a problem, than suddenly broke. Also, if I restart the application, or X, or the hole computer, it doesn't help at all. This problem seems to be completely random. My system: - Mandriva Linux 2009.1 64bits - tried wine 1.1.20 -> 1.1.23 - nvidia gforce 8600gt - KDE4.2.2 ( with or without 3D, it is the same)
patkoscsaba wrote:> Or in some applications (for example a word processor like application) when I get with the mouse outside of the edit area, it starts to scroll continuously up or down, left or right.Are you pressing those keys when you move mouse outside of the program's window? what is your focus policy is set to click to focus, or follow mouse?
vitamin wrote:> Do any of you have joystick plugged in?No, I have no joystick at all. But, thanks for the tip. Wine somehow recognized my keyboard as a joystick too. So the program offered me to calibrate my "Microsoft Media Keyboard 3000" "joystick". I moved away the js0 file from /dev/input and it is solved my problem.
I looked around in my /dev/input/by-id directory and I found some intresting file: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2009-06-16 19:15 usb-Microsoft_Microsoft__Digital_Media_Keyboard_3000-event-joystick -> ../event5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2009-06-16 19:15 usb-Microsoft_Microsoft__Digital_Media_Keyboard_3000-event-kbd -> ../event4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2009-06-16 19:15 usb-Microsoft_Microsoft__Digital_Media_Keyboard_3000-joystick -> ../js0 I think this is the problem. My keyboard is not a joystick [Laughing]
I have to try this! I also have no joystick but I have a M$ keyboard...
Incredible! It solved my problem ... I removed /dev/input/-js0 and all is working perfect ... I hope the problem will not appear again. It seems like M$ is sabotaging Linux with their keyboards ... keyboards, the only thing M$ can do really well...