Bug#820317: xboxdrv grabs event device but doesn't produce any output

[Christian Weinz]

Package: xboxdrv
Version: 0.8.8-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I connected a controller to the computer and invoked xboxdrv manually with
'xboxdrv --evdev /dev/input/event21 --mimic-xpad' where event21 corresponds
to the controller. The device event21 produced events just fine, which I checked
using evtest. Here is the output in verbatim:

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# xboxd --evdev /dev/input/event21 --mimic-xpad
xboxdrv 0.8.8 - http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/xboxdrv/ 
Copyright © 2008-2011 Ingo Ruhnke <grumbel at gmail.com> 
Licensed under GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> 
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. 
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details. 


Your Xbox/Xbox360 controller should now be available as:
  /dev/input/js1
  /dev/input/event22

Press Ctrl-C to quit, use '--silent' to suppress the event output

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xboxdrv grabs the device event21 but doesn't produce any events on event22
nor on js1.

Help is very much appreciated.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_ES.utf8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages xboxdrv depends on:
ii  libc6             2.22-5
ii  libdbus-1-3       1.10.8-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2  0.106-1
ii  libgcc1           1:5.3.1-13
ii  libglib2.0-0      2.48.0-1
ii  libstdc++6        5.3.1-13
ii  libudev1          229-3
ii  libusb-1.0-0      2:1.0.20-1
ii  libx11-6          2:1.6.3-1

Versions of packages xboxdrv recommends:
ii  python       2.7.11-1
ii  python-dbus  1.2.4-1

xboxdrv suggests no packages.

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