[SOLVED ]Deathspank duplicates controller

Question

Hi,
I try to play DeathSpank over Steam/Wine and when I connect my XBox 360 Controller the game thinks that I have 2 controllers because the one controller is available over
  /dev/input/js0
  /dev/input/event16
Is there a way to make the controller only available over one location or hide one of them for the game?
The game has a very annoying on screen message who wants me to activate the second controller.
I tried xpad and xboxdrv and both seem to have the same behaviour.
Greetings
Debellator
EDIT: I found an easy solution. When I go into the Control Panel in wine I see the both controller under Game controllers and can deactivate one of them.
Last edited by debellator (2013-08-10 16:15:23)

Answer 1

Eh ... ok, can we go back to the start to avoid the big XY problem here.
You say your goal is to compare to arrays - and any language that can do it will be fine.  But then the only description of what you really want is presenting a potential solution in bash.  Then as we move along we find that these arrays are filled from files.
So can you please describe what you actually want to acheive?
I will start by saying that bash will most likely not be good for such large arrays.  It could do it ... but it shouldn't.
If you have the list in a file, why not just `sort -u`?
EDIT: I just reread your bash version - no wonder it takes hours: for all that weird variable processing, you are repeating the exact same processing on every single array element over 15 thousand times: you extract Width and Height from each element, then for each element you extract W and H from every element - so you end up extracting width and height from each array element one more time than there are elements in the array!  Why on earth are you doing that?  Preprocess every array element once into the parts you care about:
Rule of Representation: Fold knowledge into data so program logic can be stupid and robust.
EDIT: as for awk and sed slowing down the script "very much" it's because you are using them completely wrong.  Don't launch a new awk subprocess for each variable of interest for each element of the array for every other element of the array (which would mean you're launching 1500*1500*2 subprocesses with awk).  Just use one awk process to preprocess the input into a format that can be easily compared.  Then go through that input only once.
Last edited by Trilby (2014-07-26 20:53:08)