wine users - Jun 2011 - Disabling a gamepad

I'm using a ps3 gamepad to play windows games using wine, and in almost
every game tried (devil may cry 4, grid wars, trackmania nations forever), wine
does some ridiculous thing with constantly making everything go left. (I imagine
it's an issue with the left thumbstick mapping. I  have tried with multiple
PS3 controllers and can confirm it's not a hardware issue).

Anyway, the going left thing is really awful and makes games that require a
gamepad almost unplayable. If I could fix the constantly going left thing I
would be the happiest of campers, but I've resigned myself to just mapping
keyboard inputs using QJoyPad and hoping for the best in games where analog
support is required.

However, it seems that in some games (Trackmania Nations Forever) mapping
keyboard input results in both wine using the controller to constantly go left
and also to register the keyboard inputs that I've mapped the gamepad to. So
Trackmania will know for example that square means brake an right trigger means
accelerate because I've mapped  them to the down and up arrows respectively,
but the car will still go left because WINE is all like "hey a controller!
let's make everything go left!"

Is  there any way to hide the gamepad from WINE entirely so that I can just use
the keyboard inputs and not have wine worry about the gamepad?

On 6/5/11 4:21 PM, rufsketch1 wrote:
> I'm using a ps3 gamepad to play windows games using wine, and in almost
every game tried (devil may cry 4, grid wars, trackmania nations forever), wine
does some ridiculous thing with constantly making everything go left. (I imagine
it's an issue with the left thumbstick mapping. I  have tried with multiple
PS3 controllers and can confirm it's not a hardware issue).
>
Yes, there is a simple way to do this:  Disconnect the controller if you 
can.

The next thing is to capture a logging file where the input is incorrect 
and attach it to a bug report that you should either find or file in our 
BugZilla.

Disconnecting the controller will not allow me to use the controller. 

I don't know enough about logging to make any use of your instructions.

I need the controller in order to play with a controller. The game isn't
worth playing without one.

There's really no way to get wine to just ignore its existence? 

I'll see what I can do about the logs.