On Wednesday 23 March 2005 10:05 pm, Ron Keller wrote: > *First, a bit of history. I used Gentoo (kernel-2.6.8.1 with udev) as > the host system for building LFS-6.0. One of the packages I emerged on > the Gentoo system was digikam-0.7.1; and using the information ion the > following link, I was able to gety digikam to recognize and access my > USB PTP Class camera as a normal user. > > ** http://digikam*.free.fr/hotplug/howto.html > > So, I thought I would try to build digikam-0.7.1 on my LFS system using > KDE-3.3.2 as the active window manager. I had no problem building the > package, but I cannot get digikam to access the camera or even to > recognize that a camera is conneted to the computer. I know that the > kernel is aware that a USB device has been plugged in. I have tried to > use the same information in the previous link to apply it to the LFS > system. I doesn't work. > > I am really hoping that someone on this list has managed to get this to > work. I woould really appreciate some help. I suspect that it may be a > permissions thing, but since this as a PTP camera, no device is being > genated by the hotplug handler, and thus, I have no device ffile in /dev > for which I can set permissions. Help would be appreciated. Thanks > > Ron
I had the same problem. When you mount usb you could add the devmode=xxx option. WFM. Here is my mount line from fstab usb /proc/bus/usb usbfs devmode=0666 0 0 HTH -- Shane Shields Registered LFS Compiler: 7582 To drink the WINE of success you must first seek the sayings of source Anyone sending unwanted advertising e-mail to this address will be charged $25 for network traffic and computing time. By extracting my address from this message or its header, you agree to these terms. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
