Pystromo

Have to run in sudo... rules file not working?

Asked by Lighttitan

Hey, I can't stop myself I just have to keep telling you THANK YOU for this program. I can't tell you how much I LOVE it!!

I figured out my problem with not getting it to work sometimes. It won't remap the keys if I don't run pystromo-remap.py as sudo.

I am running Ubunutu Ultimate 1.9 (Hardy) I put that rules file (the debian one) in the directory you said to in the readme file.

There is no rush on this question as I have no qualms with running it as sudo for now. So just put this question on the back burner and when you get a chance let me know.

Oh and before I leave....

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!

Pystromo has SAVED me from switching back to the evil Windoze! I have NO need WHATSOEVER to go back to windoze now that I can use my Nostromo at 100% capacity.

You know when you said that Pystromo did everything the windoze version of the software could do and more, I was skeptical... but BOY was I wrong!

Sure you don't get to use some fancy GUI, but that doesn't bother me as the program runs flawlessly!!!

It just amazes me that you were willing to do for free what Belkin themselves wouldn't do!

I know that there probably aren't that many people out there with a need for your Pystromo software, but for the ones of us who needed it, it has meet our demands so well I think I speak for more than myself when I say that a paypal link on your page to allow us to donate some money for your hard work would not go unnoticed by those of us who you have so willingly helped for free!

[Thank you!] X Infinity!!

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Raumkraut (raumkraut) said : 		#1

Curious having to run it with sudo under 'buntu (I'm on Hardy, too).
Could you post the output of the command `groups`, when run as your normal user, and also of `ls -l /dev/input`, please?

Also; you're welcome. :)

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Lighttitan (dadicus) said : 		#2

groups outputs the following.

titan adm dialout cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev fuse lpadmin admin

`ls -l /dev/input` outputs the following...

total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 160 2008-10-15 23:11 by-id
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 220 2008-10-15 23:11 by-path
crw-rw---- 1 root plugdev 13, 64 2008-10-15 23:11 event0
crw-rw---- 1 root plugdev 13, 65 2008-10-15 23:11 event1
crw-rw---- 1 root plugdev 13, 74 2008-10-15 23:11 event10
crw-rw---- 1 root plugdev 13, 75 2008-10-15 23:11 event11
crw-rw---- 1 root plugdev 13, 76 2008-10-15 23:13 event12
crw-rw---- 1 root plugdev 13, 66 2008-10-15 23:11 event2
crw-rw---- 1 root plugdev 13, 67 2008-10-15 23:11 event3
crw-rw---- 1 root plugdev 13, 68 2008-10-15 23:11 event4
crw-rw---- 1 root plugdev 13, 69 2008-10-15 23:11 event5
crw-rw---- 1 root plugdev 13, 70 2008-10-15 23:11 event6
crw-rw---- 1 root plugdev 13, 71 2008-10-15 23:11 event7
crw-rw---- 1 root plugdev 13, 72 2008-10-15 23:11 event8
crw-rw---- 1 root plugdev 13, 73 2008-10-15 23:11 event9
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 63 2008-10-15 23:11 mice
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 32 2008-10-15 23:11 mouse0
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 33 2008-10-15 23:11 mouse1
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 34 2008-10-15 23:11 mouse2
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 35 2008-10-15 23:11 mouse3
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 36 2008-10-15 23:13 mouse4
crw-rw----+ 1 root plugdev 10, 223 2008-10-15 23:11 uinput

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Raumkraut (raumkraut) said : 		#3

Odd. By that output, it should all be working. :/
Could you try running the remapper script with your usual .map file/s, and add the -v argument? That should output some gubbins to the terminal.

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Lighttitan (dadicus) said : 		#4

We will revisit this problem once the current bug is fixed and I retry everything on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid to see if this will still be an issue at that time.