21 Jul
2006
21 Jul
'06
1:55 p.m.
On Jul 21, 2006, at 12:02 PM, Atte André Jensen wrote:
Spencer Salazar wrote:
To get HID going in chuck on Linux, you need to set the appropriate permissions on the device files in /dev/input
Why? Any device (my mouse or my keyboard) work in other programs, so they must be available with sufficient permissions. Or is possible for such programs because it go through X, or...?
Precisely. To support fun stuff like independently accessing multiple mice and multiple keyboards, we need to read from the devices directly, rather than go through X like everything else. Also, if chuck used X, it would depend on X being installed, which isnt always the case. spencer