[Digikam-users] Sony DSC-S40 Cyber-shot

[David Matthews]

On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 12:00:17 +0200
digikam-users-request at kde.org wrote:

> digiKam relies on gphoto2, it uses its API to interface the cameras. 

yes I understand this

> David, if you have root access and no user access I guess that gphoto is 
> installed but you are not member of the 'camera' group. The udev/hotplug 
> scripts that come with gphoto will set the device to 660 or 664 with 
> root:camera ownership. I my diagnosis is right just do as root: 
> $ addgroup 'user' camera

Thanks for this is interesting suggestion Gerhard!  However there is no camera group on my system and I look in vain for any scripts in the packages I have that might alter device permissions. Incidently, I have unofficial Slackware packages for digikam and all its dependancies, maybe I should have compiled from source, but the the linux packages site had excellent reviews for them.

If I just know what device is involved I can change its permissions manually. 
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