Xboxdrv without root?

I'm trying to run the xboxdrv driver as a systemd user service (so that I can start the service when I want to use it for keyboard mapping, etc, and stop it when I want to play a game that supports the controller directly via Joydev), but I can't get xboxdrv itself working without root.
I have already set permissions up so I can cat /dev/input/js* without root, but it seems xboxdrv is doing something a little lower-level, something I can't control via udev and permissions. It seems to be bypassing the filesystem altogether and trying to access the controller via something called "libusb".
Here's the output of a few commands that might be helpful:
$ xboxdrv
xboxdrv 0.8.5 - http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/xboxdrv/
Copyright © 2008-2011 Ingo Ruhnke <[email protected]>
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.
Controller: Afterglow Gamepad for Xbox 360
Vendor/Product: 0e6f:0213
USB Path: 005:007
Controller Type: Xbox360
-- [ ERROR ] ------------------------------------------------------
USBController::USBController(): libusb_open() failed: LIBUSB_ERROR_ACCESS
$ sudo xboxdrv
xboxdrv 0.8.5 - http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/xboxdrv/
Copyright © 2008-2011 Ingo Ruhnke <[email protected]>
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.
Controller: Afterglow Gamepad for Xbox 360
Vendor/Product: 0e6f:0213
USB Path: 005:007
Controller Type: Xbox360
Your Xbox/Xbox360 controller should now be available as:
/dev/input/js1
/dev/input/event9
Press Ctrl-c to quit, use '--silent' to suppress the event output
[SUCCESS]
^C
$ xboxdrv -L
id | wid | idVendor | idProduct | Name
----+-----+----------+-----------+--------------------------------------
0 | 0 | 0x0e6f | 0x0213 | Afterglow Gamepad for Xbox 360
$
What do I do? The current systemd user service I'll be using once I get it working is this:
# ~/.config/user/systemd/xboxdrv.service
[Unit]
Description=XBox controller keyboard bindings
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/xboxdrv -D -c ~/.config/xboxdrv/xboxdrv.conf
PIDFile=%h/.config/xboxdrv/xboxdrv.pid
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
(If there are any glaringly obvious errors in that, please give me a heads up! )

nomorewindows wrote:This xbox to keyboard feature is it something in the xboxdrv package? Most programs change the buttons that do certain actions configured from whatever joystick-aware program you are using. I just plugged my joystick in, and it is located under /dev/input/js0, with input group and 0664 for the mode. You'll just have to try it to see what it behaves like. If it requires xboxdrv to even work, it may not do anything. The linuxconsole package also allows for testing of the joystick interface.
xf86-input-joystick is similar to xboxdrv, except it's tied to the X server, and so it cannot reload its configuration or be enabled/disabled without editing system-wide configuration files and restarting the X server.
I'm sure xf86-input-joystick would work perfectly well for keyboard mapping. But if I'm going to use something that requires root to run and change, I may just as well set xboxdrv up as a system service instead, since that way I could at least still change the mappings and enable/disable it without restarting the X server. It would still require root, though, and that's what I'd like to avoid if at all possible.
Last edited by ThePacman (2014-10-13 14:39:01)

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