Bug 1118864

Summary:	Possible easy fix for Steam Controller issues
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed	Reporter:	Sam G <samueldgv>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Sam G <samueldgv>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	jon, jonasdcdm, jxu, samueldgv, thomas.rosenberger
Version:	Current
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Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	Other
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Description Sam G 2018-12-08 21:55:18 UTC

Hi everyone,

I was wondering why the Steam Controller was not working properly in OpenSUSE although it's working perfectly in any other distribution I tried before. Turns out there is a permissions issue which I guess could be easily handled in the steam-controller package.

Several non-Valve games should be affected by this, and I can confirm it with Hyperlight Drifter in my case. Steam fails to virtualise the Steam controller access due to not having permissions on /dev/uinput

Doing a sudo modprobe uinput, or even more bluntly, a chmod 666 /dev/uinput fixes it.

I wonder why the Games group could not have access to it for example?

This issue also was handled before in steam's issue tracker, link below:

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/4083

"Steam will try to open /dev/uinput when it sees a Steam Controller to create the virtual controller device and will fail to do so if it's not able to write to it."

Comment 1 Jonás del Campo 2019-05-28 13:45:28 UTC

Hi,

I have been trying to find a solution for so long, and finally this is it. Simply modprobing uinput fixes it for me on Tumbleweed. Before that I have tried to put my user in the "input" and "games" groups, but nothing would work.

By the time a fix is released, I hope that anyone with this issue can find this simple fix.

Comment 2 Thomas Rosenberger 2019-05-28 15:29:01 UTC

*** Bug 1121672 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Matthias Mailänder 2019-09-03 13:58:16 UTC

Bug 1121672 has a suggested fix for https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/games:tools/steam You will have to provide a .patch for the udev files according to https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Patches_guidelines to resolve this.

Comment 4 Sam G 2019-10-05 09:21:32 UTC

Hello,

Sorry for not taking a look at this earlier. I went to look into the Steam package and it seems that moozaad already added the udev fix quite a while ago on https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/709576

It's been a while since I used the Steam controller on games so I didn't notice it, but upon a quick check right now it's working flawlessly.

P.D: Is it common for users to be assigned this kind of bugs? (I have no problem with it personally :), I was getting ready today for a trip to the wikis!)

Comment 5 Sam G 2019-10-05 09:22:49 UTC

Setting to Resolved for now.