[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Powermate not found?

[John Ackermann N8UR]

John Ackermann N8UR wrote:
> Hi --
> 
> I'm running a CVS snapshot that's about a week old on my Debian system,
> and for some reason the Powermate knob isn't being detected.  I am using
> kernel 2.6.15 and lsmod shows the powermate module installed, and the
> little blue LED is glowing happily.  Yet apps report: "FYI: No Powermate
> or Contour Knob found."  The same snapshot built on my laptop (after the
> Ubuntu pain mentioned here a week or so ago) has no problems; the knob
> works just fine there.

Problem solved.  I didn't have the kernel event interface module (evdev)
selected.  After building and modprobing that, all is well.

John