Bug 1121672

Summary: Steam controller's Gamepad mode is broken for most games.
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed Reporter: Thomas Rosenberger <thomas.rosenberger>
Component: OtherAssignee: Matthias Mailänder <matthias>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: jonasdcdm
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Hardware: x86-64   
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Description Thomas Rosenberger 2019-01-11 19:00:56 UTC
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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.