linuxwacom kernel module

Peter Gordon admin at ramshacklestudios.com
Sun Jan 22 21:30:03 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 14:17 -0600, Michael Favia wrote:
> [michaelfavia at lithium ~]$ /sbin/modprobe -v wacom
> insmod /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.1853_FC5/kernel/drivers/usb/input/wacom.ko
> FATAL: Error inserting wacom 
> (/lib/modules/2.6.15-1.1853_FC5/kernel/drivers/usb/input/wacom.ko): 
> Operation not permitted

Please try running that as root. (You can use 'su -' to temporarily
become root.) Only the superuser (UID=0) is generally allowed to load
kernel modules. It could potentially be a very big security hole,
otherwise, which we wouldn't want. ^_^
-- 
Peter Gordon (codergeek42)
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