"Please load uinput module first" starting wiican

Hi chmmr!

I'm not sure why it fails while the uinput module it's loaded with 0666 perms.
I'll try Ubuntu 10.10 and tell.

One question? Could you try to launch wminput in a shell? Did it work for you?

"sudo wminput" works, but wminput without superuser privileges does not.

Like I said, my /dev/uinput has 0666 permissions, and I have a file in /etc/udev/rules.d called 99-wiimote.rules with "KERNEL:="uinput", MODE="0666".

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling wiican using the steps described in one of the bugs linked above, but it didn't help.

The fix has been committed at trunk, could you confirm the solution please?

I'll tell the getdeb people so they could perform the properly changes in the debian packages.

Great, I'll look forward to it and let you know what I find.

Updating to the new version and rebooting fixed this issue. Nice work.

I have installed the newest version from getdeb. Bug still present. I can connect the wiimotes with wminput, but wiican still says: "Please load module first."

Running Ubuntu 10.10.

Are you sure you're running the wiican_0.3.1-1~getdeb2 ?

Im sure. Packagemanagement says: 0.3.1-1~getdeb2

Sorry, i have purged wiican and reinstall it again after i compare my version of wiican_dbus.py with the one in the deb. Maybe something went wrong on update. Now i have the right version of wiican_dbus.py.

Sorry again, next time i check it more than 2 Times.

ThreeM maybe that was because wiican service running through dbus doesn't reload itself after installing the new package. I'm sure that if you restart the computer of tear down the wiican dbus service then the changes will apply.

So .. now it works for you, isn't?

Issue remains on 10.10 (32 bits)
0.3.1-1~getdeb2
purging and reinstall has no affect

wminput does work, which I use in the meantime... but all my mappings have no effect offcourse ;)

might be a general issue in 10.10:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1617581

btw... I dont need to run wminput as super user
wminput works fine, however from time to time it seems it cannot run uinput, and nothing happens.
When I then remove wminput, and reinstall it again, it does work again.

Hi DDdW

I'm running Wiican + wminput on 10.10 with no issues. On 10.10 uinput module it's builded in the kernel (not as module) so there's no need to load uinput module at all.

Could you, please, see if the udev rule worked well for you, so you have 664 perms for /dev/uinput file?

well I can't access it as a normal user
I used gksudo nautilus to change the setting, but am unsure in what to change them
see screenshot (there logged in as gksudo nautilus)

terminal output (doesnt allow me to paste it here, so i made a screenshot)

DDdW could you please check if the 99-uinput.rules files exists for you and post here the content.
This is mine:

me@myhost:~$ cat /lib/udev/rules.d/99-uinput.rules
KERNEL=="uinput", MODE="0666"

the file doesn't exist on my system.
Not before running wminput, not during running wminput

Are you sure you're running Ubuntu 10.10 and installed wiican 0.3.1-1~getdeb2 debian package?

Could you please try to install this package:
http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb/ubuntu/pool/apps/w/wiican/wiican_0.3.1-1~getdeb2_i386.deb

I assure you this package contains the 99-uinput.rules file you need to set the right perms for uinput

I was certain I initially installed the getdeb version, however I probably reinstalled another version via ubuntu-update (checked in the update list, indeed wiican says there is a 'newer' version there).
I have the get-deb in my repositories, so it's kinda weird it installs an older version from the ubuntu repositories.
Now the file is there, and indeed wiican works!

Don't mind DDdW I hope you'll enjoy wiican.

everytime run the update it puts the other version (that doesnt work) over it. Anything to counter that?