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GreenFireFly

02-05-2016 08:57 PM

evdev permissions?

Hello Everyone,

I'm trying to run reicast how ever controller does not work at all.
I can see this in the terminal.

evdev: Trying to open device at '/dev/input/event0'
evdev: open: Permission denied

How can i fix this?

BTW: I'm Slackware Current 20151216 64bit multilib.

yars	02-06-2016 01:10 AM

See

Code:

ls -/dev/input/event0

and make your regular user a member of a group that assigned to devnode, I think it will a 'plugdev' group, so do that (as root):

Code:

# usermod -a -G plugdev username

Then, re-login.

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