Bug#907731: steam-devices: Steam Controller undetected in Steam due to incorrect udev rules from steam-devices package

[Evan Goers]

Package: steam-devices

Version: 1.0.0.55-1

Severity: normal


Dear Maintainer,


 * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or

ineffective)?

Uninstalled the steam-devices package and used the recommended udev rules
from the Steam community. The recommended rules suggest 0666 for Valve's
controllers, instead of 0660 as is used in the steam-devices rules.

* What was the outcome of this action?

The controller was detected by Steam(big picture mode).


It seems that changing the permissions MODE from 0660 to 0666 for

Valve's devices in /lib/udev/rules.d/99-steam-controller-perms.rules allows
the

devices to work as expected. It may be necessary to change them all to 0666
to

allow them to function normally. I can only test the Steam Controller as I

don't have any of the rest listed. 0666 may be required now due to recent
changes in Steam.

-- System Information:

Debian Release: buster/sid

APT prefers testing

APT policy: (500, 'testing')

Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Foreign Architectures: i386


Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)

Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=
(charmap=UTF-8)

Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

LSM: AppArmor: enabled


steam-devices depends on no packages.


Versions of packages steam-devices recommends:

ii steam 1.0.0.55-1


steam-devices suggests no packages.