Bill and Claude (and my SINCEREST apologies for hitting the “d” rather than “s” 
and referring to you as you Clause),

The “dialout” group access is needed as a minimum for USB access to device such 
as the SCU-17. As you are working primarily with a “tty” group - and for the 
purposes of being “generic” across system versions – it is always traditionally 
‘safer’ to add “tty” in when using local systems.

Access to the “audio” group is also required for access to the sound 
interfaces. As these two groups are needed its perhaps best to stack these in 
with the “usermod” command (ref to it: 
https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-add-user-to-group-in-linux/ )

I have seen some systems – past - where the “video” group is also needed for 
proper rendering within the graphics driver (weird) for some functions that 
WSJT-X uses in Qt. Again Weird !

The example I provided stacked a few “to be sure” groups onto individual users 
based on too many years of dealing with such issues. But as a minimum for most 
systems the following basic command should be enough and I would recommend  
should head into the documentation of both the “overarching” and “wsjtx source” 
INSTALL files:

i.e. 1: sudo usermod -a -G tty,dialout,audio <user> (then of course log out and 
back in to enact the changes).


i.e. 2: Also as a reinforcement of the earlier ask for doc review/enhancement: 
can a “sudo” please be added re the last line for the Linux install instruction 
(to /usr/local) ==> sudo cmake --build . --target install   … As documented 
this works as “root” but not as a standard user form where most can and should 
work. [ I have been growled at extensively over the years myself for working as 
“root” ]. We are all “lazy” and tend to copy from these docs when building so 
this would be of great assistance ☺

Claude I primarily run the FT-991 (not A model) here – that for all purposes is 
identical – and note that all compiles and works fine at this point with Linux 
and Windows x64 (but will not promise).

I may have put some patches together to have made the JTSDK 3.1 “functional” – 
but the true heart here back to the late 80’s/early 90’s is with BSD and Linux.

73.

Steve I
VK3VM / VK3SIR


From: Bill Somerville <g4...@classdesign.com>
Sent: Thursday, 2 July 2020 9:25 PM
To: wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] FW: CAT problems with FT817, FT857 and FT897

Hi Claude and Steve,

the easiest command to add a user to a group on Linux is:

sudo adduser $USER dialout
then log out (log out means log out of the desktop session, not just the 
terminal window), and back in. Use the 'id' command to check membership. On 
some systems (non-Linux) the correct group is 'uucp', just look at which group 
devices are in to determine which group you need to be a member of.

73
Bill
G4WJS.

On 02/07/2020 11:17, Stephen VK3SIR wrote:

Clause,



A minor correction here: its -G



i.e. sudo usermod -a -G adm,tty,disk,dialout,audio,video,plugdev <user>

There is a little "over-caution" in places here !



73



Steve I

VK3VM / VK3SIR



-----Original Message-----

From: Claude Frantz 
<claude.fra...@bayern-mail.de><mailto:claude.fra...@bayern-mail.de>

Sent: Thursday, 2 July 2020 7:58 PM

To: wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>

Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] FW: CAT problems with FT817, FT857 and FT897



On 7/2/20 11:25 AM, Stephen VK3SIR wrote:



Many thanks, Stephen, for this very interesting information and for your tips.



i.e. sudo usermod -a G adm,tty,disk,dialout,audio,video,plugdev <user>

In my own environment, using Fedora, it was important to add "dialout".



Best wishes,

Claude (DJ0OT)


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