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

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk
Mon Feb 27 12:34:17 CET 2012


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.

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