Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Exclusive ownership of knob or HID devices (powermate.py)

[Eric Blossom]

On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 10:45:30PM -0400, Krzysztof Kamieniecki wrote:
> While lurking on the Kino developers mailing list, they seem to be 
> the most active users of hardware knobs, I can across the EVIOCGRAB 
> ioctl which will exclusively grab an input device. This can be used 
> to temporarily prevent X (under in Linux 2.6 at least) from receiving 
> any messages from a specific device.
> 
> Attached is a patch for "powermate.py". I don't know how it will work 
> on other systems, but it works great for me.
> 
> Enjoy,
> Krys

Thanks!

Eric