I, also, was drawn to the p5 glove for pd control purposes...and so I bought one of the cheapies from compugeeks once I saw the amazingly low pricetag. Got it this week. I run Linux (almost exlcusively, Debian unstable, kernel 2.6.6) and have been quite disappointed with the drivers/support so far.

Apparently there are two ways to roll with this thing [in Linux]: binary driver (supplied by Essential Reality) or a 3rd party driver called libp5glove. The latter uses libusb in userspace (which, obviously, would be a preferred angle of attack)...

So far, I've had zero success...even tho I have plenty of other usb devices configured and working perfectly (think scanner, camera, card reader, hard drive, gamepad, etc). The binary driver causes my machine to hard lock, and the userspace one reports an error within libusb. Something about "Invalid Argument" which I straced back to an ioctl call. Wonderful. I tried emailing the author of the libp5glove driver, but the address now bounces. :(

Based on forum postings, the manufacturer of the p5 seems to be in pretty bad shape. It's great that they were willing to put out a Linux driver and SDK...but the current state of affairs looks bleak. If somebody manages to get either driver working with Linux (I've read a few vague success stories), please drop me a line. If I manage to make mine wiggle, I'll try and post results back to the group.

-jason http://noisybox.net