wine users - Oct 2009 - Gamepad activates both characters in a game

I ran into an interesting problem. With a Logitech Dual Action gamepad in 
LEGO Star Wars The Complete Saga, doing anything other than moving around
(jump, tag, action) with player 1 activates player 2. It's not serious, but
player 2
character now without any input just stands there and acts like an anchor 
(your movement is seriously limited because the game now waits for player 2). 

LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy experienced similar problems, but the
player 2 character moved in unison with player 1 (not so serious) and if you
selected "Drop out" from the menu (to disable player 2 and change it
to
computer player) worked as an easy fix. But this doesn't work on the
Complete Saga.
Player 2 character wakes up on all button events. 

I've read around on solution for The Original Trilogy and there was talk
about
the permissions in the dev/input/ -directory and also about the xinput1_2.dll, 
but those didn't help this issue. I tried connecting my second gamepad but
that
didn't help either. 

[Image: http://www.loadusfx.net/lego-saga.jpeg ]

Has anyone ran into similar problems and found a solution or some workaround for
this?

Loadus wrote:
> I ran into an interesting problem. With a Logitech Dual Action gamepad in
LEGO Star Wars The Complete Saga, doing anything other than moving around (jump,
tag, action) with player 1 activates player 2.
Is it assigning separate joystick to each character?

Wine will see each joystick as 2 separate joysticks because it has 2 different
joystick drivers. The easiest way to deal with this is "disable" one
of the drivers by removing/making unaccessible it's device - /dev/js* or
/dev/input/js* for joydev driver or /dev/input/event? (only one for the
joystick) for evdev driver.