Steam Input only adopts the virtual Steam Deck controller when it arrives as
a real USB device (raw_gadget or usbip/vhci transports); the UHID fallback
has no USB interface and Steam ignores it. On a stock host neither
precondition for usbip held: vhci-hcd isn't loaded, and its sysfs
attach/detach files are root-only while the host runs as a user service —
so every session silently fell back to UHID and 'no controller appears on
the host' (live-debugged 2026-07-08: client events all arrived, the pad
existed, Steam just refused it).
Ship both preconditions with the host packages:
* modules-load.d/punktfunk.conf loads vhci-hcd at boot (rpm/deb/arch;
Bazzite gets it via the RPM payload + a modprobe in the sysext
post-merge hook)
* a udev rule in 60-punktfunk.rules grants the input group write on
vhci_hcd's attach/detach whenever the device appears
Verified end-to-end on a live host: usbip in-process attach, hid-steam
binds all three interfaces, 'Steam Deck' + motion evdev appear, and Steam
adopts the pad (client-mode grab + its own virtual X360 emission).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Roadmap #5 (rich DualSense). A UHID device presents a real Sony DualSense to the kernel's
hid-playstation driver (matched by VID 054C/PID 0CE6), which exposes the full controller —
gamepad, motion sensors, touchpad, lightbar/player LEDs, adaptive triggers — unlike the
uinput X-Box-360 pad.
- inject/dualsense.rs: hand-rolled /dev/uhid codec (no bindgen) mirroring the uinput style;
the canonical inputtino 232-byte USB HID report descriptor + the feature-report replies
(calibration 0x05 / pairing 0x09 / firmware 0x20) — answering hid-playstation's GET_REPORTs
during init is REQUIRED or it creates no input devices. DsState::from_gamepad maps a
GameStream/XInput frame → the DualSense input report (buttons/sticks/triggers/dpad, +
touchpad/motion fields); service() answers GET_REPORTs and parses HID OUTPUT (rumble /
lightbar RGB / player LEDs / adaptive triggers) into quic::HidOutput.
- scripts/60-punktfunk.rules: grant /dev/uhid to the 'input' group (like /dev/uinput).
- `punktfunk-host dualsense-test`: standalone validation (no streaming session).
Validated live: `dualsense-test` → hid-playstation binds + loads ff_memless + led_class_
multicolor; the kernel creates "Punktfunk DualSense 0" (event/js gamepad + Motion Sensors +
Touchpad + Headset Jack) at VID 054c/PID 0ce6, plus the lightbar at /sys/class/leds/
input*:rgb:indicator; js shows the Cross button firing + the left-stick sweep. Clippy/fmt
clean, workspace tests green. Wiring into the session (pad-type select, touchpad/motion
routing, HID-output back-channel) is the next commit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Full project rename, decided 2026-06-10:
- Crates/binaries: punktfunk-core / punktfunk-host / punktfunk-client-rs.
- C ABI: punktfunk_* symbols, Punktfunk* types, include/punktfunk_core.h,
PUNKTFUNK_FEATURE_QUIC guard (header regenerated; cbindgen renames updated, incl.
PUNKTFUNK_BTN_*/PUNKTFUNK_AXIS_* wire constants).
- Protocol: punktfunk/1 — control-plane magic LMN1 → PKF1, nonce salt lmn1 → pkf1.
WIRE BREAK: clients must be rebuilt from this revision.
- Env knobs: PUNKTFUNK_VIDEO_SOURCE / PUNKTFUNK_COMPOSITOR / PUNKTFUNK_ZEROCOPY / ….
- Host config dir: ~/.config/punktfunk (the box's dir was migrated in place — the
persistent identity is unchanged, pinned fingerprints stay valid).
- Swift package: PunktfunkKit + PunktfunkCore.xcframework + PunktfunkConnection
(Sources/PunktfunkClient app + tests renamed with it); build-xcframework.sh updated.
- scripts/: 60-punktfunk.rules, punktfunk-host.service; OpenAPI doc regenerated.
Also: scripts/headless/run-headless-kde.sh — full headless Plasma bringup. Root cause of
"desktop but no apps/settings" over the stream: plasmashell launched without
XDG_MENU_PREFIX=plasma-, so the launcher resolved a nonexistent applications.menu and
rendered an empty menu. The script sets the complete KDE session env (menu prefix,
KDE_FULL_SESSION, session version) and rebuilds ksycoca before starting plasmashell.
Gate: 97/97 tests, clippy -D warnings (both feature sets), fmt, C-ABI harness PASS,
zero lumen references left outside .git.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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