Pygame spams controller input requests to the command line output

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Someone left printf() statements in the official pygame 1.9.1 build making proper debugging via console logging difficult. Either building pygame from the source or waiting for a new version to be released will solve this.

SDL_JoystickGetButton value:0:
SDL_JoystickGetButton value:0:
SDL_JoystickGetButton value:0:
SDL_JoystickGetButton value:0:
SDL_JoystickGetButton value:0:
SDL_JoystickGetButton value:0:
SDL_JoystickGetButton value:0:
SDL_JoystickGetButton value:0:
SDL_JoystickGetButton value:0:
SDL_JoystickGetButton value:0:
SDL_JoystickGetButton value:0:

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Building pygame from the source temporarily fixed this issue. Pygame 1.9.2 will probably not contain this issue, but here is a temporary fix:

fedora dependencies (requires rpmfusion free)

yum install python-devel SDL_image-devel SDL_mixer-devel SDL_ttf-devel SDL-devel smpeg-devel numpy subversion portmidi-devel libv4l-devel

(smpeg seems to fail but pygame can be compiled without)

ubuntu dependencies

sudo apt-get install libv4l-dev mercurial python-dev python-numpy ffmpeg libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libsmpeg-dev libsdl1.2-dev libportmidi-dev libswscale-dev libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev

possibly needed

sudo ln -s /usr/include/libv4l1-videodev.h /usr/include/linux/videodev.h

Download pygame source

wget http://www.pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.9.1release.tar.gz
tar xvfz pygame-1.9.1release.tar.gz
cd pygame-1.9.1release

Patch joystick.c

cp src/joystick.c src/joystick.c-orig
grep -v printf src/joystick.c-orig > src/joystick.c

install pygame

python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install