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Date:      Wed, 14 Nov 2001 14:35:56 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com>
Cc:        Charles Anderson <caa@midgard.dhs.org>, Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, Charles Anderson <caa@columbus.rr.com>, multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Olympus digi camera and USB +gphoto2
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111141435480.4779-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <15346.61500.185286.888252@hip186.ch.intel.com>

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I was running as root..


On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, John Reynolds~ wrote:

> 
> [ On Wednesday, November 14, Julian Elischer wrote: ]
> > hmmm
> > did you have any problems compiling it?
> > do you use a frontend?
> > I have not been able to get any information as to what the 
> > command lines look like under freeBSD for a USB device..
> > 
> > I seem unable to get it to communicate across the USB
> > connection properly..
> > it finds the camera with --auto-detect
> > but I can't do anything else with it...
> > I get "write error" messages.
> > 
> 
> check the permissions on your usb devices. You have to be able to write to
> them (in theory you're just getting images off the camera but Good
> Software(tm) sets the "I've been read from the camera" bit in the camera's CF
> filesystem, so that's a write operation).
> 
> Look at /dev/usb* and the endpoints /dev/ugen*
> 
> Do whatever you think best to give yourself write access--either chown to
> operator and be in the operator group, run ghoto2 as root, or something else
> clever that suits your security needs.
> 
> That's my best guess without seeing further error messages and with not being
> familiar with gPhoto2.
> 
> -Jr
> 
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