Hello Jan (i was screwing around with hdparm and lost your reply so i had to find it on the archive. -X68 = bad. :( )
> Do you have an external keyboard connected? nope. just using the built in adb one. > What does /usr/bin/setupenv.sh say? --------- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/bin/setupenv.sh This script checks the environment on your system so that PBButtons would work with all features also if it was launched as normal user. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ You started this script as normal user 'matthew' so that no adjustments of the system could be made. Instead of that all nessecary changes will be printed to console. To perform missing adjustments please restart this script as superuser root. checking new input layer: active [ ok ] checking /dev/input: exists, user readable [ ok ] checking /dev/input/event0: exists, root access only [fail] Only root could access this device. This wouldn't work if you want also normal user to use PBButtons. To solve this you could set (or let this script do it for you) the nessecary permissions (r-) to 'all users'. This could be done with the command: 'chmod o+r- /dev/input/event0'. checking /dev/input/event1: exists, root access only [fail] Only root could access this device. This wouldn't work if you want also normal user to use PBButtons. To solve this you could set (or let this script do it for you) the nessecary permissions (r-) to 'all users'. This could be done with the command: 'chmod o+r- /dev/input/event1'. checking /dev/input/event2: exists, root access only [fail] Only root could access this device. This wouldn't work if you want also normal user to use PBButtons. To solve this you could set (or let this script do it for you) the nessecary permissions (r-) to 'all users'. This could be done with the command: 'chmod o+r- /dev/input/event2'. checking /dev/input/event3: exists, root access only [fail] Only root could access this device. This wouldn't work if you want also normal user to use PBButtons. To solve this you could set (or let this script do it for you) the nessecary permissions (r-) to 'all users'. This could be done with the command: 'chmod o+r- /dev/input/event3'. checking /dev/pmu: exists, user writable [ ok ] checking /dev/mixer: exists, user writable [ ok ] No changes to the system have been made. ---------- then as root, i did the chmods as suggested. now setupenv outputs ------------ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/bin/setupenv.sh This script checks the environment on your system so that PBButtons would work with all features also if it was launched as normal user. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ You started this script as normal user 'matthew' so that no adjustments of the system could be made. Instead of that all nessecary changes will be printed to console. To perform missing adjustments please restart this script as superuser root. checking new input layer: active [ ok ] checking /dev/input: exists, user readable [ ok ] checking /dev/input/event0: exists, user readable [ ok ] checking /dev/input/event1: exists, user readable [ ok ] checking /dev/input/event2: exists, user readable [ ok ] checking /dev/input/event3: exists, user readable [ ok ] checking /dev/pmu: exists, user writable [ ok ] checking /dev/mixer: exists, user writable [ ok ] No changes to the system have been made. --------- then i try pbbuttonsd: --------- bennyhill:~# pbbuttonsd ERROR: Can't find an input event queue for the keyboard in /dev/input/, maybe permission denied. --------- interesting. so i try it as a normal user: --------- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ pbbuttonsd WARNING: Couldn't open /dev/input/mice, sleepmode and display dimming disabled.ERROR: Can't open adb device [/dev/adb]: Permission denied --------- ok. # chmod 666 /dev/adb then try it again: ------------ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ pbbuttonsd WARNING: Couldn't open /dev/input/mice, sleepmode and display dimming disabled.ERROR: Can't find an input event queue for the keyboard in /dev/input/, maybe permission denied. now i'm stuck! - matthew

