1460347 - Enable joystick interface with firefox snap

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Release Engineering Graveyard :: Release Automation: Snap, defect)

Description

[extraymond]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0
Build ID: 20180507191226

Steps to reproduce:

Trying to use gamepad api in firefox snap.


Actual results:

Gamepad can not be found.


Expected results:

Snaps can request to use joystick with joystick interface, it would be nice to enable it.

Relevant link: https://docs.snapcraft.io/reference/interfaces

Comment 1

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

Who owns our Snap builds?

Comment 2

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

This is Johan!

Comment 3

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Thank you for the bug report!

Adding this permission looks like the right thing to do. However, I don't have a gaming controller to test out. Do you confirm your gamepad is mapped to /dev/js*, extraymond?

Comment 4

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

(In reply to Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo] from comment #3)
> Adding this permission looks like the right thing to do. However, I don't
> have a gaming controller to test out.

To clarify: I have a PS4 controller ready. However, my Linux machine detects it as /dev/bus/usb/001/010.

Comment 5

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

(In reply to Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo] from comment #4)
> To clarify: I have a PS4 controller ready. However, my Linux machine detects
> it as /dev/bus/usb/001/010.

That was on Arch Linux. On Ubuntu 16.04, the same controller is mapped to /dev/hidraw0. Without Snap, I can play [1] on Firefox 60. I'll have the Snap version tested.

[1] http://webassembly.org/demo/Tanks/

Comment 6

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Ah, I can't open Tanks on the Snap version of 60.0. The website reads:
> Your browser does not support WebGL

The browser console says:
> Error: WebGL warning: Failed to create WebGL context: WebGL creation failed:
> * Error during native OpenGL init
> * Exhausted GL driver caps.
> * Exhausted GL driver options.

When open in a Terminal, the firefox snap binary returns:
> libGL error: No matching fbCongis or visuals found
> libGL error: Failed to lead driver: swrast

We did declare the "opengl" permission[1]. I don't see any other which can match. Ken, how can I get better logs on this? 

[1] https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/d4b9e50875ad7e5d20f2fee6a53418315f6dfcc0/taskcluster/docker/firefox-snap/snapcraft.yaml.in#26

Comment 7

[extraymond]

(In reply to Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo] from comment #3)

Thank you for the bug report!

Adding this permission looks like the right thing to do. However, I don't
have a gaming controller to test out. Do you confirm your gamepad is mapped
to /dev/js*, extraymond?

Sorry for the long delay!!!
My controller is mapped at /dev/input/js0, and is confirmed working by jstest-gtk.
However there are no gamepads found by calling navigator.getGamepads()

Comment 8

[extraymond]

Additional info:
Joystick in snap that enables the joystick interface works fine: for example -> retroarch, so snap's interface is working as expected.

The current version of firefox didn't enable the joystick interface in the snapcraft.yaml.
I think that might be the case.

Comment 9

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Awesome! Thanks for the info. Then, the fix is easy :)

Comment 10

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Attachment: Bug 1460347 - snap: enable joystick interface r=mtabara

Comment 11

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/6eb5b0b83574
snap: enable joystick interface r=mtabara

Comment 12

[Stefan Hindli [:stefan_hindli]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/6eb5b0b83574

Comment 13

[Stefan Hindli [:stefan_hindli]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/6eb5b0b83574

Comment 14

[extraymond]

Thx!! Confirmed working on firefox snap.

Tested on channel: beta, revision 278.
Joysticks tested: Logitech F310(under Xinput mode), steam wireless controller, both works.
Thx Devs!

Comment 15

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Awesome!

Marking this bug as verified per comment 14.