ok, adding myself to root group did the job.
thanks for your help.
the sixaxis object now reports acceleration data, but only y and z axis.
axis x shows a constant value of 414, even when i shake the controller.

is my controller broke?

thanks
olli

> From: hans@at.or.at
> To: ladataxi@hotmail.de; pd-list@iem.at
> Subject: Re: [PD] sixaxis, can't read from hidraw
> Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 21:28:44 -0400
>
>
> 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.
>
> .hc
>
>
> 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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