>> ERROR: Can't find an input event queue for the keyboard in >> /dev/input/, maybe permisson denied. >> >> does anybody know where this might be hiding so I can link to it? > > It needs to run as root to have access to /dev/input. > You wouldn't want some other user to be able to capture your > keystrokes now would you?
I get the same error with pbbuttonsd on my Powerbook Pismo. And yet I am running it as root. Upon further investigation, I have found that there are indeed no keyboard device in the input directory: [root@wintermute root]# ls -al /dev/input/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 ./ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 ../ crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 63 Dec 31 1969 mice crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 32 Dec 31 1969 mouse0 crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 33 Dec 31 1969 mouse1 crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 34 Dec 31 1969 mouse2 [root@wintermute root]# I did a little more digging, and found that the event interface support is compiled in as a kernel module, and is not loaded at boot time by default. What you need to do first is: modprobe evdev Then you should have no problems running pbbuttonsd as root. :-) Hope this helps, Peter -- Peter R. Wood - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://prwdot.org/
