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On Behalf Of Xiaofan Chen
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 12:15 AM
To: libhid-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject: Re: [libhid-discuss] Talking to an HID device from user account in
Linux
On Tue, Mar 31
Hi,
This is a follow-up to my earlier postings.
I am using a device that enumerates as both mass storage device and HID device.
I have used libhid as well as libusb to communicate with this composite USB
device and the communication works as expected. So far so good.
Here is my dilemma:
The
2009/3/31 Ali Asad asad@gemalto.com:
As I understand it, the use of libhid requires root access in order to
read-write from the device, right? This is how I have tested my application.
Is there another way to talk to the HID device so that root access is not
required? If so what would I
, March 30, 2009 6:41 PM
To: Ali Asad
Cc: libhid-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject: Re: [libhid-discuss] Talking to an HID device from user account in
Linux
2009/3/31 Ali Asad asad@gemalto.com:
As I understand it, the use of libhid requires root access in order to
read-write from
Ali Asad wrote:
For example, you can connect a USB mouse (a HID device) without
requiring root access or forcing the user to use udev rules.
How are user mode applications able to talk to such HID devices?
Is that through some generic/universal HID device driver supported
by the Linux
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