[Lazarus] run program in ide with sudo for debug purpose

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Henry Vermaak wrote:
> On 27/02/12 11:34, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> Henry Vermaak wrote:
>>> On 27/02/12 11:13, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>>>> The reason it didn't work as expected might have been because the
>>>> insertion of otherwise-unrecognised devices in /dev/usb is a
>>>> comparatively recent feature. Checking, it's not in 2.6.18 (Debian 
>>>> Etch)
>>>> but is in 2.6.32 (Debian Lenny). Allow for a few kernel steppings 
>>>> for it
>>>> to actually /work/ :-)
>>>
>>> The wiki page says it will work as far back as 2.6.13. Before then,
>>> "hotplug" was used, but don't ask me how that worked :)
>>
>> It might be in 2.6.13, but testing on a Debian SPARC Etch with 2.6.18
>> didn't so it might not have been enabled as standard until later.
> 
> That's probably the case.  They are quite conservative with new features!

:-) Testing on a SPARC Debian Lenny similarly didn't show /dev/usb etc, 
so it's probably architecture-specific. I've not checked an ARM system- 
I've got no spare real (i.e. as distinct from Qemu) ARM hardware at the 
moment.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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