Bug 1254403

Summary: No SDL support, game engine joystick support broken.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Rick <fedora>
Component: blenderAssignee: Jochen Schmitt <jochen>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 21CC: fdc, hobbes1069, ignatenko, jochen, kwizart, promac
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basic blender file that sets up the environment for exposing this bug. none

Description Rick 2015-08-18 02:50:39 UTC 
Created attachment 1064133 [details]
basic blender file that sets up the environment for exposing this bug.

Description of problem:

In Blender Game Engine, I can't use the joystick sensors to control anything.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 

blender-2.74-5.fc21.x86_64


How reproducible: Always.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Plug in a joystick or xbox controller, etc.
2. Start blender
3. Choose the "Game Engine" pulldown from the main scene menu
4. Add a joystick sensor in the logic pane, choose button, and tick "all events"
5. add a simple and controller
6. add a motion actuator using simple motion, rotate Z axis 5 degrees
7. click and connect all 3 together
8. Pull down the "blender render" option to "blender game"
9. Click "start embedded"
10. push a button on the controller.

(alternatively, load the attached blend file and skip steps 1-8)

Actual results:

Box doesn't rotate


Expected results:

Box rotates.


Additional info:

In 2.74, the blender team added a nice little convenience python module to be able to tell you if SDL support is working or not.  If you open a Python console and type: bpy.app.sdl, it will report back a tuple indicating whether or not SDL is initialized.

In the Fedora packaged version (2.74):

>>> bpy.app.sdl
bpy.app.sdl(supported=False, version=(0, 0, 0), version_string='Unknown', available=False)

In the Blender packaged binary (2.75a):

>>> bpy.app.sdl
bpy.app.sdl(supported=True, version=(2, 0, 3), version_string='2.0.3', available=True)

I have SDL2 installed, as I can make it work correctly with the binary downloaded directly.

See this bug report: https://developer.blender.org/D1112 
describing lack of SDL support causing linux joysticks to fail.
Comment 1 Rick 2015-08-18 03:05:05 UTC 
To ensure it wasn't a regression from one version to the next, I downloaded Blender's precompiled version 2.74 to test. That version too, works fine. 

I suspect its how Blender is being compiled.
Comment 2 Igor Gnatenko 2015-10-13 08:04:58 UTC 
With patch from bug 1238685 it should works fine again.
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