Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:26:22 +0100 From: Sven =?UTF-8?B?R8O2dHRuZXI=?= <post@sven-goettner.de> To: pav@FreeBSD.org Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: FreeBSD Port: gtkam-0.1.16.1_1 Message-ID: <20091116212622.2e8f1fc1@cohiba.pawalanesien.lan>
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Dear maintainer of gtkam,
just tried out gktam on FBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p8 and was closed to giving
up, since my camera (Panasonic DMC-FZ50) was listed on gphoto.com as
supported device and gtkam recognized it (almost correctly as FZ20 -
but OK...) - but connection via PTP just resulted in an "PTP I/O-Error".
Debugging with --debug and --debug-logfile also just listed an "unknown
error". I could not connect to the camera or even view/download files.
Finally I installed gphoto2 from the ports, since I hoped to get more
help or information from a command line tool (proved to be a good
strategy while trying to get my handheld to work under FBSD) and
then (accidently) started gphoto2 as root - and it flawlessly connected
to the camera and downloaded the pictures.
Since mounting the camera as da* device (usb mass storage) worked
perfectly (which would have been my fallback solution, anyway), I could
not explain this behaviour to me.
It took me quite a while to guess that obviously when connecting via
PTP, an ugen* device is used and not the usual da* device for USB
connections.
Adding
add path 'ugen*' 0660 group operator
to /etc/devfs.rules (as done before for USB sticks) and restarting
devfs and devd via the /etc/rc.d/dev* scripts finally solved the
problem and now also non-root users are able to connect to the camera
via PTP.
So I suggest adding a post-install notice in the install routine for
FBSD that makes the user aware of this step. I have not found this
requirement documented elsewhere...
Greetz and thanks for maintaining gtkam,
Sven.
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