[Bug 35954] Dead Space (Steam) crashes on startup (some Microsoft keyboard and mouse devices are incorrectly recognised as joystick, reporting nonsense caps/data)

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35954

Anastasius Focht  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
           See Also|                            |https://bugzilla.kernel.org
                   |                            |/show_bug.cgi?id=37982
            Summary|Dead Space (Steam) crashes  |Dead Space (Steam) crashes
                   |on startup                  |on startup (some Microsoft
                   |                            |keyboard and mouse devices
                   |                            |are incorrectly recognised
                   |                            |as joystick, reporting
                   |                            |nonsense caps/data)
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1

--- Comment #14 from Anastasius Focht  ---
Hello Rob,

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Huh, I don't even have a joystick. I just removed the device node for now (no
idea why it's being populated), and the game works!!
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you probably have this one: 'Microsoft Wired Keyboard 600'

There is a kernel bug reported here:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37982 ("Microsoft Wired Keyboard
600 create a spurious joystick device.")

These devices report nonsense data when being incorrectly recognized as joy
devices (hid).

Maybe Wine should blacklist all input devices with vendor id == 0x045e
(Microsoft) to be safe ... j/k :)

Well, at least those that are obviously invalid:

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0020:trace:dinput:JoystickWGenericImpl_GetCapabilities 0x923f4e4->(0x3c9f1b4)
0020:trace:dinput:_dump_DIDEVCAPS dwSize: 44
0020:trace:dinput:_dump_DIDEVCAPS dwFlags: 00000001
0020:trace:dinput:_dump_DIDEVCAPS dwDevType: 00000214 UNKNOWN
0020:trace:dinput:_dump_DIDEVCAPS dwAxes: 8
0020:trace:dinput:_dump_DIDEVCAPS dwButtons: 57
0020:trace:dinput:_dump_DIDEVCAPS dwPOVs: 1
0020:trace:dinput:_dump_DIDEVCAPS dwFFSamplePeriod: 0
0020:trace:dinput:_dump_DIDEVCAPS dwFFMinTimeResolution: 0
0020:trace:dinput:_dump_DIDEVCAPS dwFirmwareRevision: 0
0020:trace:dinput:_dump_DIDEVCAPS dwHardwareRevision: 0
0020:trace:dinput:_dump_DIDEVCAPS dwFFDriverVersion: 0 
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/987622

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=142469

http://ryort.wordpress.com/2011/12/04/udev-and-the-microsoft-digital-media-k...

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/390959

The root cause is of course 'upstream'.

Regards