On Sun, May 7, 2006 10:22 pm, Robert Fisher wrote: > On Sunday 07 May 2006 10:06 pm, Nick Rout wrote: > >> google reveals this to be a permissions problem. I think you need to be >> in >> the usb group. You need to add yourself like this: >> >> sudo gpasswd -a bernard usb > > Bernard uses KDE on Mepis and I am sure it would be easier for him to use > k > System > User Manager to put himself in the usb group (he is not yet > comfortable with command line usage).
Well now he has two options doesn't he :-) I am not in kde and was not about to log out and in remind myself about the right place to find the graphical way, and he is comfprtable enough to type in the gphoto commands and post the output, so i gave hm a quick and clean option. >> >> Then you need to log out and log back in - you don't need to reboot, >> just >> log out of your session and log back in again. >> >> Then try again :-) >> >> Once we have got gphoto2 going gtkam should work for you too. Just get >> the >> command line thing working first, as gtkam uses the gphoto >> functionality. > > Why gtkam when DigiKam is the KDE frontend to gphoto2? > I tried gtkam and digikam on my similar camera yesterday. gtkam detected it automatically and i posted the instructions on the list. digikam didn't do automatic detection. Both are available for mepis. i am trying to get bernard through it one step at a time ;-) He is doing damned fine so far. I have been researching his printer too :)
