Package: billard-gl
Version: 1.75-7
Severity: important
On my current hardware I can't hit ball at full strength.
(not exactly true, but you'll find out later)
It always gets hit at about 8-10% of full strength, always the same
value, after the same time.
After some testing I managed to find out it's the matter of autorepeat
times of keyboard.
When I turn off autorepeat ('xset r off') BillardGL works fine (but the
rest of my system doesn't - autorepeat is quite useful and nice feature)
So, this bug renders BillardGL practically useless to me.
Some time ago I didn't have this problem.
At that time I had different Linux kernel - 2.4 instead of current 2.6
and also different hardware (mainboard using VIA KT133 instead of KT600
chipset, and made by another manufacturer (Sono instead of Gigabyte)).
IIRC on my previous mainboard I had keyboard autorepeat turned off in
BIOS (which didn't turn off autorepeat under OS control), now I don't
even have such setting in BIOS Setup.
This bug is reported to upstream author,
http://www.ameds.de/billardgl/read.php?f=4&i=1&t=1
but BillardGL seems practically dead upstream, so forwarding bug
to Tobias Nopper probably won't solve the problem.
I tried to sort things out myself, but plenty of BillardGL code is
written/documented in German (eg. variable names).
So, unfortunately, I had to give up trying to analyze program to make
useful patch.
Anyway. It seems that BillardGL tries to read key events at level way
too low, which leads to trouble on certain, specific hardware.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-k7
Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL (charmap=ISO-8859-2)
Versions of packages billard-gl depends on:
ii billard-gl-data 1.75-7 3D billards game - data files
ii freeglut3 2.2.0-8 OpenGL Utility Toolkit
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-9 GCC support library
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxi6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Input extension li
ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii xlibmesa-gl [libgl1] 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Mesa 3D graphics library [XFree86]
ii xlibmesa-glu [libglu1] 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Mesa OpenGL utility library [XFree
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-11 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
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