Re: Constant spinning in Doom

"Jonathan Dowland" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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?


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