blight input only working when running as root

[wildbill12]

I'm runnning the Mandriva 2007 binary of mupen64 and having some issues with blight's plugin.

Running mupen as a user, blight's plugin won't respond to my controller. It's found in the configure setup but I can't define buttons and when loading games I get a "no controller".

However, if I run mupen64 when logged in as root, blight's plugin works great, I can configure the controller and it works perfectly in games.

So I'm guessing this is just a simple permissions problem. I chmod 777 the /dev/input/js* and that made no difference.

I can use the controller with no problems when running as a user in every other program I've tried it (other emulators, games, etc).

I'm using mupen through mythtv, so running that as root is a secruity issue.

Any ideas?

[wildbill12]

ok, I solved the problem pretty simply.

I copied the /root/.mupen64/blight_input.conf file to my user .mupen64 directory and that did the trick.

Still not able to reconfig the controls when logged in as a user, but it's simple enough to do that as root then copy the file over.

Hope this helps anyone that end up having the same problem

[flip]

hi there

does the file have the right owner and group?
because when you copy the file from the root home folder it should normally be assigned root:root
try (as root)

# chown username:username file

to have write access to the file

you can see the owner/group/permissions when you type
$ ls -l file

also i dont think giving any of the files in /dev 777 permissions is a good idea
change it to the previous settings its perfectly ok and surely not the cause of your problem