[PLUG] USB foot pedal quit working after installing apcupsd

[Richard C. Steffens]

This morning is the first time since installing the new battery backup 
and apcupsd that I've tried to use my USB foot pedal (which controls 
Rewind / Play / Fast Forward for my transcription program). I remember 
creating udev rules for the foot pedal so that permissions would be 
correctly set on boot:

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="*05f3*", MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="*05f3*", MODE="0666"

But this morning when I loaded the program footpedal I got the error 
message I used to get telling me that I needed to:

rsteff at moonguide:~$ sudo chmod a+r /dev/usb/hiddev0^C

After running the above the footpedal program loaded. But it does not 
control the transcribe program the way it should. I can start and stop 
the transcribe program with its own gui controls but not with the foot 
pedal.

The only thing that comes to mind that has changed is the addition of 
the USB connection to the APC battery backup.

What tool do I use to start figuring out how to correct this problem?

Thanks.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens