Sounds like a permissions issue. You need to have permissions to read/write from the hidraw device. On my machine, the 'root' group has perms. So add yourself to the 'root' group.
h...@palatschinken:~ > ls -l /dev/hidraw* crw-rw---- 1 root root 251, 0 2009-06-09 14:45 /dev/hidraw0 crw-rw---- 1 root root 251, 1 2009-06-09 14:45 /dev/hidraw1 crw-rw---- 1 root root 251, 2 2009-06-09 14:45 /dev/hidraw2 crw-rw---- 1 root root 251, 3 2009-06-09 14:45 /dev/hidraw3 Search the archives, there is a lot of discussion about this related to hid. .hc On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:59 +0400, "a. tonal" <[email protected]> wrote: > > hallo, > i try to read accelleration data from sixaxis joystick via the sixaxis > object into pd linux. > when i attempt to open hidraw1, which is the sony sixaxis acording to > dmesg, sixaxis object gives me an error. > the joystick is known by the system and works fine with the hid object. > > i tried sixhidtest (from pabr.org) as well and i get an error too. > (permission denied). > > it's the same with puredyne (2.6.24) and ubuntu 9.04 (2.6.28). > > has anybody succeeded with this? > thanks > olli > > _________________________________________________________________ > http://redirect.gimas.net/?n=M0906xIE8_MSN3_WW > Hol Dir den neuen Internet Explorer 8 mit MSN-Toolbar _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
