Bug 1121672 - Steam controller's Gamepad mode is broken for most games.
Summary: Steam controller's Gamepad mode is broken for most games.
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1118864
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE Tumbleweed
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Version: Current
Hardware: x86-64 Other
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Matthias Mailänder
QA Contact: E-mail List
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2019-01-11 19:00 UTC by Thomas Rosenberger
Modified: 2019-05-28 15:39 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

See Also:
Found By: ---
Services Priority:
Business Priority:
Blocker: ---
Marketing QA Status: ---
IT Deployment: ---

Attachments
Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.)

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.
Description Thomas Rosenberger 2019-01-11 19:00:56 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0
Build Identifier: 

Since a while, the steam controller can not be used with "GamePad" configurations. E.g. SuperTuxKart doesn't detect the controller at all.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start steam client.
2. Connect steam controler.
3. Switch to steam's big picture mode.
4. Start a game with gamepad support (e. g. SuperTuxKart, TombRaider, etc.)
5. Ensure GamePad configuration is selected.
Actual Results:  
Gamepad is not detected by the games.

Expected Results:  
SuperTuxKart detects steam controller as "Microsoft X-box 360 pad".

Adding the following line to "/lib/udev/rules.d/60-steam-input.rules" is a workaround for me:

KERNEL=="uinput", MODE="0660", GROUP="games", OPTIONS+="static_node=uinput"
Comment 1 Jonás del Campo 2019-05-28 13:48:31 UTC 
Hi,

This a possibly a related issue: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1118864

I experienced the same behaviour before, and your solution seems to be related to the other bug report. In the end, it is a permissions related issue.
Comment 2 Thomas Rosenberger 2019-05-28 15:29:00 UTC 
Hi Jonás del Campo,

seems you are right. I mark this bug as duplicate.
Thank you for the hint.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1118864 ***
Comment 3 Jonás del Campo 2019-05-28 15:39:34 UTC 
No problem! This issue was hard for me to diagnose, and the Internet didn't give me any relevant results, until I found this bug report.