{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ynsta/steamcontroller/issues/13","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ynsta/steamcontroller/issues/13/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ynsta/steamcontroller/issues/13/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ynsta/steamcontroller/issues/13/events","html_url":"https://github.com/ynsta/steamcontroller/issues/13","id":123974807,"number":13,"title":"No error message when /dev/uinput is not writeable","user":{"login":"stapelberg","id":55506,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/55506?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/stapelberg","html_url":"https://github.com/stapelberg","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stapelberg/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stapelberg/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stapelberg/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stapelberg/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stapelberg/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stapelberg/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stapelberg/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stapelberg/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stapelberg/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-12-27T12:03:00Z","updated_at":"2015-12-27T12:03:00Z","closed_at":null,"body":"On my Debian testing machine, the default permissions of /dev/uinput are:\r\n\r\n```\r\n$ ls -hl /dev/uinput \r\ncrw------- 1 root root 10, 223 2015-12-27 12:31 /dev/uinput\r\n```\r\n\r\nWhen starting sc-xbox.py, I don’t see an error message, but no new SDL joysticks appear either.\r\n\r\nChanging the permissions of /dev/uinput made this work.\r\n\r\nCould you add proper error handling so that other users have an easier time getting this working please? Also, I think the instructions in README.md should be updated to include the steps to properly change the permissions of /dev/uinput."}}