gimx 0.40 errors

[jane8re]

Hello Matlo
I post this in the development thread because I think it's the best place, just tell me if I'm wrong.

I'm using Gimx on an Xbox360.
I compiled the last Gimx version (0.40) this week-end. Everything went smooth and fine on my Gentoo laptop.

Spoof works like a charm.

But....

When i tested there was some errors.

1) If I run gimx-serial with output "gui" or "terminal" selected ; I get an emuclient error when I click on "start".
From a terminal I get this (gui output selected) :

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execvp(gnome-terminal, -x, emuclient, --360pad, --precision, 8, --config, Battlefieldtest.xml, --refresh, 4, --subpos, --serial, --port, /dev/ttyUSB0, --curses) failed with error 2!

Or this (terminal output selected) :

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execvp(gnome-terminal, -x, emuclient, --360pad, --precision, 8, --config, Battlefieldtest.xml, --refresh, 4, --subpos, --serial, --port, /dev/ttyUSB0, --status) failed with error 2!

Ok. It seems that error 2 means that execvp didn't find something in the command string.
After digging a bit in the sources, I see that in serialMain.cpp there is no more

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else
    {
        command.append("/bin/bash -c \"");

So we depend exclusively on gnome-terminal now. Not really funny for those (as I) who don't use gnome at all.

2) If I run gimx-serial without any ouput selected, when I click "start", it starts but it uses 50% of my CPU. It was only around 5% with version 0.30. As I'm using a dualcore processor, and I guess gimx-serial is not optimized to use multiprocessing, I'm afraid this means that it's using one core at 100%. Ouch !
Is this linked to n° 1 ?

3) Now the good news. Running the whole thing from a terminal makes everything just fine. Spoofing

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usbspoof -p /dev/ttyUSB0

and then emuclient

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emuclient --config Battlefieldtest.xml --serial --port /dev/ttyUSB0 --360pad --precision 8 --refresh 4 --subpos --curses

works perfectly. But no more beautiful gui.

[Matlo]

Hi,

1) This is a side effect of some code refactoring I made. Please open a bug in the issue tracker list and I will try to work on it for the next release.

2) What process is consuming 100% of a CPU core?

3) Great!