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@@ -6,15 +6,21 @@ three. To make and install, do the regular 'make; sudo make install' on unixes.
On windows just 'make' with mingw and do whatever people do with windows exes.
Usage on Ubuntu:
- sudo micronucleus --run name_of_the_file.hex
+ sudo micronucleus --run name_of_the_file.hex
Usage on Mac:
micronucleus --run name_of_the_file.hex
Usage on Windows
micronucleus.exe --run name_of_the_file.hex
-Raw binary file writing hasn't been tested much yet and is suspected to not
-work.
+Raw binary file writing hasn't been tested as much as hex files.
Every now and then the program fails once it reaches the Writing stage - this is
a known bug - but if you simply rerun the micronucleus command immediately, it
-will succeed the second time usually. Most of the time this issue is not present. \ No newline at end of file
+will succeed the second time usually. Most of the time this issue is not present.
+
+To linux users: sudo is used above because the default configuration under most
+modern linux distributions is to not allow userspace apps to communicate
+directly to unknown USB devices. You can fix this by installing some config
+files, or you can just use sudo. Either way you're going to need root. To
+configure your system to allow micronucleus access from non-root users, copy
+49-micronucleus.rules from this folder to /etc/udev/rules.d/