On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 05:40 -0500, Christian Convey wrote: > FYI, I finally got the camera working (see millions of earlier emails on > this topic). Congrats! > The solution was simple: add my user to the 'camera' unix group. That's very, very odd. I don't need group "camera". What files/directories are "owned" by group "camera"? > The things that tripped me up were: > > - I had the misconception that my camera supported both USB mass storage > and the PTP protocol. The truth is it only supports PTP. So the fact > that UDEV was never told about the kernel creating a device such as > "/dev/sda1" for the camera wasn't a problem after all - no such device > ought to be created for this camera model. > > - I didn't realize that if you're going to access a camera via PTP, then > that's (typically) accomplished via a user-space USB driver that the > application (such as digikam) makes use of. So the fact that I never > saw the kernel load a module for this camera isn't a problem. (BTW, the > PTP library that many apps like digikam or gphoto use is 'libgphoto2'.) But still, lsusb should have shown you the camera, like my DX4530. On my system, hotplug automagically loads libgphoto2 and usbcam. Nov 29 21:46:09 haggis usb.agent[30165]: libgphoto2: loaded successfully Nov 29 21:46:10 haggis usb.agent[30165]: usbcam: loaded successfully -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. Why I Hate Liberalism: They *make* us, via government mandate, "save precious water" by using a low-flow toilet (even though I live 7 blocks from the largest river in North America). And to boot... now we need to flush the toilet 2 or more times per "incident", _using_more_water_, or risk clogging it up.
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