fix(ffb): aim the proxy at the wheel, log its reasons, reload udev on install - #110
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… install Three faults behind one report (#105), where the DirectInput proxy route left DiRT Rally 2.0 not starting and nothing in the log said why. The launcher's lookup of the wheel's USB parent, used to aim logi-ffb at the session's wheel, ran cd on a sysfs symlink and resolved the parent logically, landing in /sys/bus/hid; nothing below matched, so the aim never fired on any machine and the proxy fell back to its own scan. readlink -f gives the real parent. logi-ffb's messages, including the one reason it refused to start, went to stderr, which under Steam is a console nobody reads; the lines that do reach the launcher log come from the daemon's redirected stderr, not the game's. The proxy now mirrors every user-facing message into the file LOGI_LAUNCH_LOG names, and the launcher exports that for its children. Debug traces stay on stderr. The Debian and RPM packages never reloaded udev after installing their rules, so /dev/uhid kept its root-only mode until the next reboot and the proxy could not create its virtual wheel. Both now reload and re-trigger misc, hidraw and input; Arch's own udev-reload hook and the from-source installer already did. The Arch install notice also stops telling people to set PROTON_ENABLE_HIDRAW by hand.
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For #105. Three defects on our side: the launcher never aimed logi-ffb (logical
cd ..through a sysfs symlink, verified on this machine), logi-ffb's start-up error never reached the launcher log, and the deb/rpm packages never reloaded udev so/dev/uhidstayed root-only until reboot. logi-ffb tests (72) and core tests pass; clippy clean; shellcheck unchanged.