Bug 54512

Summary:	udev permissions for Sony Vaio jog dial (sonypi kernel module)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ulrich Plate (RETIRED) <plate>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) <gregkh>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Ulrich Plate (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-06-20 04:59:32 UTC

After upgrading to udev-027 the jog dial on my Vaio notebook wasn't accessible any longer. Initially I thought KDE 3.2.3 (from the same update run) was to be blamed, so I filed a bug report at http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83409. But it turned out that including a line in /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions fixed it for me:

# Sony Vaio Jogdial sonypi device
sonypi:root:root:0666

I'm not sure if this is the right way to go about it, but it works again, I can use the jog dial as a mouse wheel and have regained control over the display brightness etc. I'm running a 2.6.7-rc3-mm1 kernel on a Sony Vaio PCG-R505R/GK, by the way.

Comment 1 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-07-02 10:32:01 UTC

Thanks, will be added to the next release of udev (out later today.)