Re: Constant spinning in Doom
"Jonathan Dowland" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.user |
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On Mon Jun 29, 2026 at 4:13 AM BST, Paul M. Foster wrote: > Folks: > > If I run "doom" followed by any wad file or none, I get the character's > viewpoint constantly turning to the left (counterclockwise if viewed > from above). The doom executable apparently is from the prboom package. > All the advice I can find has to do with adjusting the sensitivity of > whatever controllers are connected to the system. This isn't useful. > > I'm running this on an Intel i5 PC with a Microsoft mouse. Plain > vanilla. And in the Doom menus, there doesn't appear to be any choice to > adjust mouse sensitivity. > > Any help would be appreciated, as otherwise all Doom games are unplayable. > > Oh, just realized I'm running Debian testing (forky). And for what it's > worth, I don't recall having this problem with prior versions. prboom might be reading a mouse input, or it might be reading a key input. Could you have a stuck key? Perhaps check what key(s) are mapped to "turn left" in the prboom config. You could try another doom engine too, to see what happens. How about Crispy Doom? -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀
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