[linux-audio-user] [(nowhere)] USB Dance mat

Jamie Guinan guinan at bluebutton.com
Mon Nov 15 02:17:57 EST 2004


On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Laura Conrad wrote:

> >>>>> "Jamie" == Jamie Guinan <guinan at bluebutton.com> writes:
> 
>     Jamie> I wouldn't call it a mistake just yet.  I'm also running
>     Jamie> kernel 2.6.9 with no problems (Red Hat before, gentoo now),
>     Jamie> but with the EMS USB + PS2 pads.  The kernel seems to at
>     Jamie> least see your device, and it shows a sane number of
>     Jamie> buttons, so that's a start.
> 
>     Jamie> What does "ls -l /dev/js0" show?
> 
> [test]# ls -l /dev/input/js0
> crw-rw-r--  1 root root 13, 0 Jun 14  2001 /dev/input/js0
> [test]# 
> 
> [test]# ls -l /dev/js0
> cr--r--r--  1 root root 13, 0 Jan 14  2002 /dev/js0
> [test]# 
> 
>     Jamie> I'm using udev, and my device shows up like this,
> 
>     Jamie> $ ls -l /dev/input/js0
>     Jamie> crw-r--r--  1 root root 13, 0 Sep 24 22:22 /dev/input/js0
> 
> I was wondering whether the relationship between /dev/js0 and
> /dev/input/js0 was correct.  I think I've fiddled with those
> permissions, but both devices were there when I started.

Looks like the right major/minor numbers, which is what I was concerned 
about.

Actually, I have to apologize - I'm actually running 2.6.8.1 on the 
machine where my dance pads are attached.  I can try 2.6.9...

-Jamie



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