Roman Haefeli wrote:
this sounds so easy, but it is not, at least for me. although this might be off-topic, i'd like to ask the list, how to do this step-by-step, since everyone, who uses [hid] on a linux-box, is confronted with that question. the ugly solution i am using for now, is to change the permissions manually each time i boot the computer and want to use a joystick.
adding this line to /etc/udev/permissions.rules (on a debian system) KERNEL=="event[0-9]*", MODE="0664", GROUP="games"
should give you rw-rw-r permissions (and the group will be set to "games") choose your own group and mode.
this is something you i have guessed by just looking at the /etc/udev/ directory and the contents of some files therein. i do not doubt that there is lot of information available in the net.
mfgadr IOhannes