Re: DigiKam -- A permissions thing?

Am Dienstag 22 März 2005 06.29 schrieb Ron Keller:
> I am running Gentoo-2004.3 using udev; and of the packages I emerged is
> digikam-0.7.1.  If I log on as root and launch dikgikam, I have no
> problem connecting to my HP Photosmart R607 camera which is recognized
> as USB PTP Camera.  If I log on as a regular user, dgikam will not
> connect to the camera, and will not even recognize that a camera is
> connected to the computer.
>
> My question is if this is because of permissions not being set correctly
> on some device, what device would I have to set permissions for.  I am
> trying to access the camera as a PTP device and not as a device that
> would normally get mounted.  Any help wopuld be appreciated.  Thanks.
>
> Ron

I think thats not the problem of digikam, but its one of libgphoto2 if you are 
using it.
Look here:
http://www.gphoto.org/doc/manual/permissions-usb.html

I have no problems here with my gentoo system, so feel free to ask me.

Cyrill

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