Wanted to share how I did it. So far I've only tried my p/s mouse with [hid] and it works.

Followed this howto: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/gizmod/index.php?title=HOWTO_-_Setting...

The commands "udevrestart" and "udevcontrol" won't work on Lucid, but a reboot is enough after completing these procedures in the terminal (this should work on Ubuntu Jaunty and above)...

# Creating the "input" group:

sudo groupadd -f input

# Adding the user to this group:

sudo gpasswd -a username input

# Creating the file /etc/udev/rules.d/85-pure-data.rules:

gksudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/85-pure-data.rules

# Fill that with:

KERNEL=="event*", NAME="input/%k", MODE:="660", GROUP="input" KERNEL=="js*", NAME="input/%k", MODE:="664", GROUP="input"

# Then reboot and check if changes took effect with this command:

ls -al /dev/input

# result should be something like this (notice that event0, event1.. are now in the input group):

total 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 220 2010-06-09 16:22 . drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 3700 2010-06-09 16:22 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 100 2010-06-09 16:22 by-path crw-rw---- 1 root input 13, 64 2010-06-09 16:22 event0 crw-rw---- 1 root input 13, 65 2010-06-09 16:22 event1 crw-rw---- 1 root input 13, 66 2010-06-09 16:22 event2 crw-rw---- 1 root input 13, 67 2010-06-09 16:22 event3 crw-rw---- 1 root input 13, 68 2010-06-09 16:22 event4 crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 63 2010-06-09 16:22 mice crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 32 2010-06-09 16:22 mouse0 crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 33 2010-06-09 16:22 mouse1

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Can't say I know exactly what I did, but if this is a good way to do it, maybe a howto could be added to the Pure Data site?