Sounds like a permissions issue. You need to have permissions to read/write from the hidraw device. On my machine, the 'root' group has perms. So add yourself to the 'root' group.
hans@palatschinken:~ > ls -l /dev/hidraw* crw-rw---- 1 root root 251, 0 2009-06-09 14:45 /dev/hidraw0 crw-rw---- 1 root root 251, 1 2009-06-09 14:45 /dev/hidraw1 crw-rw---- 1 root root 251, 2 2009-06-09 14:45 /dev/hidraw2 crw-rw---- 1 root root 251, 3 2009-06-09 14:45 /dev/hidraw3
Search the archives, there is a lot of discussion about this related to hid.
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On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:59 +0400, "a. tonal" ladataxi@hotmail.de wrote:
hallo, i try to read accelleration data from sixaxis joystick via the sixaxis object into pd linux. when i attempt to open hidraw1, which is the sony sixaxis acording to dmesg, sixaxis object gives me an error. the joystick is known by the system and works fine with the hid object.
i tried sixhidtest (from pabr.org) as well and i get an error too. (permission denied).
it's the same with puredyne (2.6.24) and ubuntu 9.04 (2.6.28).
has anybody succeeded with this? thanks olli
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