On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 17:23 -0500, Xwang wrote: > sudo chmod uga+rw /dev/input/event* > [sudo] password for andreak: > andreak@pro5av:/dev/input$ ls -l > totale 0 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 2009-03-18 21:17 by-id > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 180 2009-03-18 21:17 by-path > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 13, 64 2009-03-18 20:02 event0 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 13, 65 2009-03-18 20:02 event1 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 13, 66 2009-03-18 20:02 event2 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 13, 67 2009-03-18 20:02 event3 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 13, 68 2009-03-18 20:02 event4 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 13, 69 2009-03-18 20:02 event5 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 13, 70 2009-03-18 20:02 event6 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 13, 71 2009-03-18 20:02 event7 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 13, 72 2009-03-18 20:02 event8 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 13, 73 2009-03-18 20:02 event9 > crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 63 2009-03-18 21:02 mice > crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 32 2009-03-18 21:02 mouse0 > crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 33 2009-03-18 21:02 mouse1 > crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 34 2009-03-18 20:02 mouse2 > > Xwang > And was that pastebin log showing that /dev/input/event* devices were "not available" for a run with this set of permissions or the default permissions that get reinstated on every boot? Also, what did the grep run show? Martin