Re: digital camera question

[Wayne Topa <brittman@capital.net>]

Mike Chandler(mailmanmike@sbcglobal.net) is reported to have said:
> On Thursday 15 April 2004 08:33 am, steef wrote:
> > H. S. wrote:
> > > Apparently, _Mike Chandler_, on 04/15/04 10:09,typed:
[-Big Snip-] 
> Thanks for that, I tried to apt-get usbmgr, but it wanted to uninstall 
> hotplug.
> I'm not sure thats what I want to do, do I?
> Here's what I have: 
> gphoto2
> libgphoto2
> gtkam
> digikam
> 
> Now, using digikam I can access the camera as root, but that's it.
> gtkam won't access it at all.
> Weird.


I did this a few months back so can't remember (Old Age) where I read
it.  You have to edit /etc/hotplug/usb/usbcam to get users priviliges.

Change USER=root to the user you want to run as.

:-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-)

Wayne
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