Anyway, last night I fired up Ubuntu in VM and just for the heck of it started Oolite as a new Jameson. I launched in the old Cobbie Mk III - and immediately found that my ship was inexplicably thrown into a full continuous roll to starboard. Tried to break out of it, but to my surprise the keyboard attitude controls wouldn't respond: not only could I not break out of the roll, pitch and yaw controls were out as well. I exited, restarted the game and launched - and the same thing happened again, the keyboard flight controls were well and truly munted. What was going on?
This time I hit "Pause" and went into the settings. And to my amazement I found that the Ubuntu Oolite had inexplicably decided that my Wacom Bamboo tablet was now the joystick! It all made sense to me now - the reason the ship was in a hard roll was because the table pen was in its holder on the side of the tablet...
I went back to the game, and this time was able to bring the ship somewhat under control by moving my tablet pen about on the surface of the Bamboo - but I certainly can't recommend using a tablet instead of a joystick as it's really counter-intuitive, especially when I discovered that tapping the stylus fired my lasers! (Brings a new meaning to "drawing a bead" on someone though
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