[Kstars-devel] FLI CCD indi control panel

[Gaetano Vocca]

I have just tested the FLI CCD driver a little bit after upgrading the cvs 
and:
1) In the Expose tab both the temperature slider and the edit box are now 
independent from the current temperature of the camera, it's ok to me (thank 
you Jasem).
2) Still in the Expose tab about the Duration fields. When the INDI Control 
panel is run the first time, the label (fourth control from left) shows 1.00. 
If I take a picture without filling the text box aside, the frame is 1 sec 
long and in the log window the message is "Taking a 1 seconds frame". At this 
point the label changes to 0.00.
If I take a second frame still without filling the text field, in the log 
window the message is "Taking a 0 seconds frame" while the exposure is still 
1 second long.
3) The driver needs, as supposed, to be run as root to properly connect to the 
camera due to the privileges of the usb device of the camera itself

A very minor little note: as far as I know, for a Bias type of exposure the 
duration is unuseful because this should be anyway the shortest exposure 
possible for the given sensor.

If you have any suggestion for any test I can perform, don't hesitate to tell 
me, I will try.

Hope it helps.

Cheers
Gaetano

On Friday 18 February 2005 15:40, Jasem Mutlaq wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason Harris" <kstars at 30doradus.org>
> To: "KStars Development Mailing List" <kstars-devel at kde.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 3:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [Kstars-devel] FLI CCD indi control panel
>
> > On Thursday 17 February 2005 04:17 pm, Jasem Mutlaq wrote:
> >> Yes that would be very useful indeed. I just need to update the CVS one
> >> more time and you can go ahead and test it. As far as I can tell, the
> >> driver must run as root, or have setuid. So you need to change the
> >> ownership of the file to either root, or setuid. Try to run it first
> >> normally, if it doesn't connect, then run it as root.
> >
> > Speaking of this, I noticed that the fliccd SUID bit was removed from
> > indi/Makefile.am, due to security concerns.  Is this going to be a big
> > problem, or can the program be made to run w/o root priveleges?
>
> Well, this is what we're going to find out soon if Gaetano tests the
> driver. I remember that the driver only worked with root privileges before.
>
> cheers,
> Jasem
>
>
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