On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 08:19:38PM +0000, Luke-Jr wrote: > My software does not interface with keyboards under any condition. > > Some specific devices I'm working with include: > FTDI: Avalon, Butterfly Labs BitFORCE & BitFORCE SC, The Chili > CP210X: Bitfountain Block Erupter Emerald/Sapphire > CDC/ACM: Big Picture Mining, BTCFPGA ModMiner > PL2303: Icarus How can you control them through libusb? Why not just use the tty device the kernel exports for you? > > And why not just use the kernel interfaces to the device? That way you > > know it works properly with anything else that has opened it at the > > time. > > I do, when permissions are set such that I can. Unfortunately, the current > Gentoo-stable eudev does not give any groups access to hidraw devices, so it > fails over to libusb. Then fix that by using console-kit to set the permissions of the devices that the local user has access to. best of luck, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html