NixOS should be able to support the Nintendo Switch Pro controller for
steam and non-steam at the same time. Currently there are two mutually
exclusive ways to support the Pro Controller: Steam and `hid-nintendo`.
Unfortunately these don't work together, but there's a workaround in
newer versions of `joycond` (described [here](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamepad#Using_hid-nintendo_pro_controller_with_Steam_Games_(with_joycond))). To use this
workaround `hid-nintendo` and `joycond` need to be updated, and the
systemd and udev configuration needs to be made available in NixOS.
The attributes got renamed in PR #126440 and in some places this caused
evaluation errors, e.g. the tarball job was saying (locally)
> attribute 'alsaUtils' missing, at /build/source/nixos/modules/services/audio/alsa.nix:6:4
and I suspect that trunk-combined jobset's failure to evaluate was also caused.
set a group and user for the service
remove default null config
it's required, now it throws an error pointing to the option
set myself (module author) as maintainer
Upstream has been providing a very thoroughly designed set of systemd units,
udev and polkit rules. With these the brltty daemon is activated
asynchronously via udev, runs as a dedicated user with runtime and state
directories set up using systemd-tmpfiles.
This is much better than the current unit, which runs a single instance
as root and pulls in systemd-udev-settle to wait for the hardware.
- Actually run tcsd as tss/tss
- Install a udev rule to set /dev/tpm* permissions
- Remove systemd-udev-settle dependency, use dev-tpm0.device instead
- Use systemd-tmpfiles to set up the state directory
- Add documentation URI to tcsd.service
This module cannot be easily tested with a NixOS test due to the TPM
dependency. Technically, one could be emulated using swtpm[1], but this
is not packaged in Nixpkgs. If you computer has a real TPM you can do a
passthrough in Qemu, but this requires running the VM as root and of
course it's not determinstic:
$ nix build -f nixos vm --arg configuration '
{
virtualisation.qemu.options = [
"-tpmdev passthrough,id=tpm0,path=/dev/tpm0,cancel-path=/sys/class/tpm/tpm0/cancel"
"-device tpm-tis,tpmdev=tpm0"
];
users.users.root.hashedPassword = "";
services.tcsd.enable = true;
}'
After starting the VM, log in as root, you can check the service has
started with `systemctl status tcsd`.
[1]: https://github.com/stefanberger/swtpm
- Use --netlink to avoid systemd-udev-settle[1]
- Run daemon in foreground which is preferred with systemd
- Add unit documentation
- Write ExecStart directly, no need for a script
[1]: 52bbd2b80b
Say this 10 times so I don't forget:
- just because something has been tested and confirmed working, doesn't
mean that a trivial change can go in without testing simply because
it looks OK. test, test, test.
- just because something has been tested and confirmed working, doesn't
mean that a trivial change can go in without testing simply because
it looks OK. test, test, test.
- just because something has been tested and confirmed working, doesn't
mean that a trivial change can go in without testing simply because
it looks OK. test, test, test.
- just because something has been tested and confirmed working, doesn't
mean that a trivial change can go in without testing simply because
it looks OK. test, test, test.
- just because something has been tested and confirmed working, doesn't
mean that a trivial change can go in without testing simply because
it looks OK. test, test, test.
- just because something has been tested and confirmed working, doesn't
mean that a trivial change can go in without testing simply because
it looks OK. test, test, test.
- just because something has been tested and confirmed working, doesn't
mean that a trivial change can go in without testing simply because
it looks OK. test, test, test.
- just because something has been tested and confirmed working, doesn't
mean that a trivial change can go in without testing simply because
it looks OK. test, test, test.
- just because something has been tested and confirmed working, doesn't
mean that a trivial change can go in without testing simply because
it looks OK. test, test, test.
- just because something has been tested and confirmed working, doesn't
mean that a trivial change can go in without testing simply because
it looks OK. test, test, test.
I'm sorry guys.
