## Tested myself on Salix OS
Steam for Linux has been available for a while now and it's coming along nicely. It's easy enough to set up for Slackware using Alien Bob's steamclient packages. Big Picture Mode is available which means more people are going to want to use a gamepad. I have a wired Xbox 360 controller that I purchased to use with my emulators. Slackware's kernel already includes the xpad gamepad module so the controller is detected as soon as it's plugged in.
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[ 6.513624] usb 2-1.6: new full-speed USB device number 3 using ehci-pci
[ 6.604012] usb 2-1.6: New USB device found, idVendor=045e, idProduct=028e
[ 6.604014] usb 2-1.6: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 6.604016] usb 2-1.6: Product: Controller
[ 6.604017] usb 2-1.6: Manufacturer: ©Microsoft Corporation
[ 6.604018] usb 2-1.6: SerialNumber: 199BF1B
[ 6.870036] input: Microsoft X-Box 360 pad as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.6/2-1.6:1.0/input/input10
[ 6.870078] usbcore: registered new interface driver xpad
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root@hades:~ # lsmod | grep xpad
xpad 11426 0
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root@hades:~ # modprobe xpad
This can be fixed by creating a udev rule to set the correct permissions for the input device. Stick the rules below in /etc/udev/rules.d/, inside something like 99-joystick.rules:
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# /etc/udev/rules.d/99-joystick.rules
KERNEL=="event[0-9]*", ENV{ID_BUS}=="?*", ENV{ID_INPUT_JOYSTICK}=="?*", GROUP="games", MODE="0660"
KERNEL=="js[0-9]*", ENV{ID_BUS}=="?*", ENV{ID_INPUT_JOYSTICK}=="?*", GROUP="games", MODE="0664"
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root@hades:~ # usermod -G games -a gerardozamudio
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root@hades:~ # ls -l /dev/input/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 180 Feb 7 03:10 by-id/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 180 Feb 7 03:10 by-path/
crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 64 Feb 7 09:11 event0
crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 65 Feb 7 09:11 event1
crw-rw---- 1 root games 13, 74 Feb 7 09:11 event10
crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 75 Feb 7 09:11 event11
crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 76 Feb 7 09:11 event12
crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 77 Feb 7 09:11 event13
crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 78 Feb 7 09:11 event14
crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 79 Feb 7 09:11 event15
crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 80 Feb 7 09:11 event16
crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 81 Feb 7 09:11 event17
crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 82 Feb 7 09:11 event18
crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 66 Feb 7 09:11 event2
crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 67 Feb 7 09:11 event3
crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 68 Feb 7 09:11 event4
crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 69 Feb 7 09:11 event5
crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 70 Feb 7 09:11 event6
crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 71 Feb 7 09:11 event7
crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 72 Feb 7 09:11 event8
crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 73 Feb 7 09:11 event9
crw-rw-r-- 1 root games 13, 0 Feb 7 09:11 js0
crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 63 Feb 7 09:11 mice
crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 32 Feb 7 09:11 mouse0
crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 33 Feb 7 09:11 mouse1