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 > > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > | 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
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