running Xorg as non-root (with xserver-xorg-video-fbdev)
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
rms at 1407.org
Thu Sep 9 19:33:06 CEST 2010
Em 06-09-2010 19:05, Timo Juhani Lindfors escreveu:
> Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms at 1407.org> writes:
>> I expect that would be more because it tries to read /dev/input/event3
>> (or 4 or both) and perhaps doesn't have enough privileges?
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> No it's because it uses the accelerometer which is a LED device and
> thus chown/chmod can not be used to grant permissions.
chgrp and chmod appear to work, or I'm not understanding what you mean?
root at om-gta02 ~ # ls -laF /dev/input/event3
crw------- 1 root root 13, 67 Jan 1 1970 /dev/input/event3
root at om-gta02 ~ # chgrp disk /dev/input/event3
root at om-gta02 ~ # ls -laF /dev/input/event3
crw------- 1 root disk 13, 67 Jan 1 1970 /dev/input/event3
root at om-gta02 ~ # chgrp root /dev/input/event3
root at om-gta02 ~ # chmod g+rw /dev/input/event3
root at om-gta02 ~ # ls -laF /dev/input/event3
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 67 Jan 1 1970 /dev/input/event3
root at om-gta02 ~ # chmod g-rw /dev/input/event3
root at om-gta02 ~ # ls -laF /dev/input/event3
crw------- 1 root root 13, 67 Jan 1 1970 /dev/input/event3
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