Hi everyone,

I was wondering why the Steam Controller was not working properly in OpenSUSE
although it's working perfectly in any other distribution I tried before. Turns
out there is a permissions issue which I guess could be easily handled in the
steam-controller package.

Several non-Valve games should be affected by this, and I can confirm it with
Hyperlight Drifter in my case. Steam fails to virtualise the Steam controller
access due to not having permissions on /dev/uinput

Doing a sudo modprobe uinput, or even more bluntly, a chmod 666 /dev/uinput
fixes it.

I wonder why the Games group could not have access to it for example?

This issue also was handled before in steam's issue tracker, link below:

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/4083

"Steam will try to open /dev/uinput when it sees a Steam Controller to create
the virtual controller device and will fail to do so if it's not able to write
to it."