From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Nov 14 14:40:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (c421509-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.7.86.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2682437B405 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 14:40:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA05072; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 14:35:57 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 14:35:56 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: John Reynolds~ Cc: Charles Anderson , Richard Tobin , Charles Anderson , multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Olympus digi camera and USB +gphoto2 In-Reply-To: <15346.61500.185286.888252@hip186.ch.intel.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 > > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, CDS - Senior CAD Engineer | > | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 602-868-6512 | > | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message