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Lemon-Lime
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 Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 4:02 am Post subject: Xbox One Controller not working out of the box |
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Hello Gentoo,
I recently tried using a Xbox One Controller on my Gentoo box. The controller was recognized by the kernel (it showed up on lsmod), but it was not being picked up by my machine (moving did nothing).
Steam didn't recognize it either, it was if nothing was plugged in. I read this (https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8546110.html?sid=85224a9888dda34906bf91057336260c) post and it said
| Quote: | | Check permissions on /dev/uinput, your user needs rw access to it for steam's controller-remapping stuff to work. That's the most common problem. |
Then I checked Arch's wiki, where it said on https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamepad#Device_permissions that:
| Quote: | | Any gamepad device, regardless of whether it is over USB or Bluetooth, is handled by the "input" subsystem of the kernel, corresponding with /dev/input |
Arch's wiki and that gentoo forum post seemed to be referring to the same thing, so I checked those files. I have two of them (by id):
- usb-Microsoft_Controller_...-event-joystick
- usb-Microsoft_Controller_...-joystick
joystick I could cat perfectly fine, however I did not have permission to read event-joystick. So I followed this (https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/401217/531949) article to give my user group read access to said file. After that, the controller worked like a charm
Thing is, as soon as I unplug it's permissions get reset. Is there a way for me to automate this? Maybe a udev rule I could assign? Thanks in advance
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Lemon-Lime
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| Posted: Sat May 06, 2023 7:37 pm Post subject: Re: Xbox One Controller not working out of the box |
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Update: I wrote a udev rule to bypass this error. It is not perfect by any means, but maybe it helps others with this same issue
Said PR: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/30902
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