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Bug 443

Summary: Joystick Initialisation
Product: SDL Reporter: Dave Hillier <davehillier81>
Component: joystickAssignee: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: major    
Priority: P1    
Version: 1.2.11   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Windows (XP)   

Description Dave Hillier 2007-06-21 15:27:53 UTC 
Joystick: Logitech Rumblepad 2 HID

I've recently upgraded to version 1.2.11 from 1.2.8.


Symptom:
SDL_NumJoysticks() returns 0 despite a joystick being attached.

Cause:
E:\libs\SDL-1.2.11\src\joystick\win32\SDL_mmjoystick.c(170):		
result = joyGetPosEx(SYS_JoystickID[i], &joyinfo);

returns JOYERR_PARMS

As a work around I've changed line 171 to:
if ( result != JOYERR_UNPLUGGED ) {

I've no idea why this is happening, as the source seems to be relatively unchanged.
Comment 1 Sam Lantinga 2007-07-07 21:38:11 UTC 
Everything that I've read indicates that the error code JOYERR_PARMS indicates a joystick not installed.  I did notice a comment in MSDN that you should use joyGetPos() instead of joyGetPosEx() for simpler joysticks.  If you replace that call with joyGetPos(), does it detect the joystick?
Comment 2 Ryan C. Gordon 2007-07-08 23:50:45 UTC 
Bumping some bugs' priorities to P1 for consideration before the 1.2.12 release (though some may not be resolved for 1.2.12).

--ryan.
Comment 3 Ryan C. Gordon 2007-07-15 09:12:27 UTC 
I'm going to take a stab at this real quick.

--ryan.
Comment 4 Sam Lantinga 2007-07-15 09:19:19 UTC 
BTW, I tested joyGetPos() and joyGetPosEx() and they were equivalent for the joysticks I have.   Can you reproduce this bug?(In reply to comment #3)
> I'm going to take a stab at this real quick.
> 
> --ryan.
> 

BTW, I tested joyGetPos() and joyGetPosEx() and they were equivalent for the joysticks I have.   Can you reproduce this bug?
Comment 5 Ryan C. Gordon 2007-07-15 09:44:41 UTC 
I just tried this with a NES controller rewired with a USB chip:

  There are 1 joysticks attached
  Joystick 0: SealieComputing RetroPad
         axes: 2
        balls: 0
         hats: 0
      buttons: 8


...msdn's text says that joyGetPos() is for devices with less than 3 axes, but apparently joyGetPosEx() still works with those.

I tried this on XP Service Pack 2. Perhaps the API is buggy in older OS releases?

Maybe this is just a driver issue on Dave's system? Dave, can you verify that this definitely broke between 1.2.8 and 1.2.11?

--ryan.
Comment 6 Dave Hillier 2007-07-15 09:50:24 UTC 
I think this must have been a driver bug, as I can't reproduce this anymore.
Comment 7 Sam Lantinga 2007-07-15 09:57:54 UTC 
Okay, thanks for checking, Dave. :)