evdev permissions?

GreenFireFly · 02-05-2016, 08:57 PM

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.