Steam Controller

The Steam Controller is Valve.]] It features two trackpads (in place of thumbsticks) with haptic feedback and sixteen buttons. The Steam controller is designed not only for games supporting traditional controllers, but also for games that support keyboard and mouse.

Kernel
The Steam Controller is fully supported by Linux without the need for a specific device driver, however it does require USB and user level driver support.

To have the kernel support the Steam controller without running the Steam client, enable the driver support in the kernel ( CONFIG_HID_STEAM ). This support was added in kernel version 4.3 and above.

Permissions
If Steam was installed manually or from an external repository, and ConsoleKit or systemd is not being used, create the following udev rules file:

The above udev rules file will grant access to the Steam Controller for users in the group:

If Steam was installed manually and ConsoleKit or systemd is being used, create the following udev rules file:

The above udev rules file will grant access to the Steam Controller by automatically setting an ACL entry for the logged-in user.

If Steam was installed from anyc's Steam external repository, a udev rules file that supports ConsoleKit and systemd should already be installed with the ebuild.

Next, reload the udev rules files and trigger a device event for the new rule:

Once the udev rules files are reloaded, the user using the Steam Controller will need to log out/in for the correct permissions to be set.