[lug] gphoto help

[Mr Viggy]

It looks like the /dev/ttyS0 link only has read/execute access for all, 
no write access.

Jeff wrote:
> OK.  I've gotten the new version of gphoto2 and the system supporst the
> Canon Powershot A70.  Here's the catch (at least on my system).  I can
> only access the camera as root.  This is probably a permissions problem,
> but I can't find it.  Everyone has rw access to the usb bus, I think:
> 
> [jeff at silk tts]# ls -alg /dev/ttyS0
> lr-xr-xr-x    1 root            5 Sep  1 07:23 /dev/ttyS0 -> tts/0

This should prolly be "lrwxrwxrwx"

> [jeff at silk tts]# ls -alg /dev/tts/0 
> crwxrwxrwx    1 tty        4,  64 Oct  9 20:57 /dev/tts/0
> [jeff at silk tts]# 
> 
> I can't seem to find anything else that would be preventing normal users
> from access.  All other devices seem to work OK (e.g. mouse, scanner
> even the flash card reader).  Any ideas?
> 
> BTW- I like Digikam *much* better!  Thanks for the help!!
> 
> Jeff
> 
> Ferdinand Schmid wrote:
> 
>>gphoto is allright - but after using Digikam (a kde utility) I would
>>have a hard time going back to gphoto and gtkam.
>>
>>Just something else to look at - but if gphoto2 won't work then none
>>of the GUIs will work either.
>>
>>Ferdinand
>>
>>--On Sunday, October 05, 2003 06:26:27 AM +0000 Andrew J Jenkins
>><andrew at winston.homelinux.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I have had success with the Canon Powershot A60 on an LFS install, in
>>>GPhoto.  Let me know if I can help you out with any of the details, it
>>>was definitely a tricky process for me.
>>>
>>>On 10/4/2003, "Jeff" <feenix at ticnet.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Has anyone successfully been able to get the Canon Powershot A70 to
>>>>work with GPhoto?  I haven't had any luck.  Running Mdk 9.0.  Thanks
>>>>in advance!
>>>>Jeff
>>>>--
> 
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