On Wednesday 19 April 2006 23:19, Attila wrote:
> On Donnerstag, 20. April 2006 00:45 Joe GIles wrote:
> > Digikam can now see my camera, but the permissions are still root:root on
> > all the usb devices instead on one root:users or root:camera. Thus,
> > Digikam fails to connect to it.
>
> Have you this line in your gphoto.rules for your camera:
>
> # Sony MVC-CD300 (PTP mode)
> SYSFS{idVendor}=="054c", SYSFS{idProduct}=="004e", GROUP="camera"Yes, I have this line in my rule file > > > So, I was wondering if it was a dbus/hal issue, so I downgraded dbus/hal, > > The problem with that is KDE barfed saying it could not load the media > > manager and Digikam didn't work either. > > Did Digikam works if you set the permissions with chmod to camera? If yes, > than a new udev rule could helps you. Well, I tried to set the permissions manually using chmod, but it didn't work. I even tried to launch Diikam though sudo (Root access) and it still failed. > > > Not sure what to think. Maybe an updated Digikam package? > > Here my camera works again with: > > digiKam: 0.8.1 > dbus 0.61-2 > hal 0.5.7-2 > udev 089-3 > gphoto2 2.1.6-1 > libgphoto2 2.1.6-6ah (compiling the files from abs by myself) Interesting... I tried the 2.1.6 version also, and it allowed Digikam to see the camera, but because of permissions, was unable to open it. > > > It works on Suse 10, so I can just use that, but I would sure like to get > > it resolved on my machine so I don't have to run upstairs everytime I > > want to pull pics off my camera. > > Perhaps you can look in the udev rules from Suse to find a solution but the > way of Suse to handle this things is a little bit different ... i find it > is more complicated because they have this resmgr.-) > Yeah, I took a look at their rules and they were more or less the same. I could not make out what any difference was... > See you, Attila > Thanks for your input. I appreciate the assistance with this. I really miss using my camera on my machine. However, I am gaining muscle in my legs running up the stairs several times a day to get the pics to my other Linux box, so there is some good comming out of this :) Joe > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
