<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Forgot to send to send this to the list ...<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On May 7, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Pierre Massat wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Does anybody know how to have access to HIDs in Pd without having to run as root? I've read that this was considered a security breach and that newer versions of Ubuntu, Fedora, etc. had this "fixed". </blockquote></div></div></blockquote><br></div>Udev rules. I created a wiki page: <a href="http://puredata.info/docs/tutorials/HowToReadHIDDevicesInLinuxWithoutBeingRoot">http://puredata.info/docs/tutorials/HowToReadHIDDevicesInLinuxWithoutBeingRoot</a><br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font>Please test the rules as I only have my rules files and no Linux in front of me to test at the moment.<br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font>I think the wiki page is underused. I must admit, my initial reaction to the question was to post the same info in brief in this email response. More and more, I realize just responding with answers on this list dosen't help as much as putting the same info on the wiki.<br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font>Not everyone knows to search the list for instance ...<div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div><br></div></div><br><blockquote type="cite">Anyway, that's nice to have this howto on the wiki. You don't seem to have mentioned the rt-kernel anywhere, though. That'd be nice to have another paragraph about it, as i think one doesn't get the same performances with realtime permissions in a rt vs. non-rt kernel. <br></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><br></div>Well, it is a wiki ... go ahead and add the info. I don't the rt kernel as, so far, it hasn't been needed. I guess my patches are simple enough and I don't use X11 with pd.<div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br><blockquote type="cite">Pierre<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/5/7 Dan Wilcox <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danomatika@gmail.com">danomatika@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex; position: static; z-index: auto; ">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word;">Howdy,<div><br></div><div>I added a howto page on the wiki adding realtime permissions for Ubuntu: <a href="http://puredata.info/docs/tutorials/HowToRunPDWithRealtimePriorityInUbuntu" target="_blank">http://puredata.info/docs/tutorials/HowToRunPDWithRealtimePriorityInUbuntu</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Please check it for me and make any changes.</div><div><br><div>
<div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div>--------</div><div>Dan Wilcox</div><div><a href="http://danomatika.com/" target="_blank">danomatika.com</a></div><div><a href="http://robotcowboy.com/" target="_blank">robotcowboy.com</a></div>
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