[Neurodebian-users] Was: Installation issues PTB Octave

[Neil Dundon]

Thanks Mario!  GetKeyboardIndices works perfectly.

On 5 March 2016 at 00:20, Mario Kleiner <mario.kleiner.de at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 03/04/2016 07:36 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
>
>>
>> On Fri, 04 Mar 2016, Neil Dundon wrote:
>>
>>     Hi Yaroslav,
>>>     Has there been any issues with PsychHID?
>>>     I only have a USB Keyboard and Mouse plugged in, recognised in the
>>>     terminal, but when I call d = PsychHID('devices') the usageName
>>> structures
>>>     are all TBD... triedA sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0-dev but it's
>>> made
>>>     no difference... would you have any advice?
>>>
>>
>> Best to ask tireless Mario (CCed)
>>
>>
> "TBD" = "To Be Done" ~ "Nah, probably never, as it is mostly pointless on
> this OS". Some of PsychHID's functions are not portable across operating
> systems as they were designed way too specific to old versions of OSX --
> they can't even work as expected on current OSX.
>
> If you use PsychHID directly you are either doing something special and
> low-level, or you followed my instructions for debugging something, or you
> are doing something wrong.
>
> On Linux some information of PsychHID('Devices') is only available when
> running as "sudo" root (which is generally not recommended for normal use),
> or after application of suitable udev rules. This is a security measure of
> the system -- ditto for MS-Windows.
>
> GetKeyboardIndices/GetKeypadIndicies/GetMouseIndices are the functions you
> want to use to select specific mice/keyboards/etc. on all operating systems.
>
> -mario
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Neurodebian-users mailing list
> Neurodebian-users at lists.alioth.debian.org
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/neurodebian-users
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/neurodebian-users/attachments/20160306/7e44f069/attachment.html>