FreeBSD-7.0 Release and Camera? Almost got it figured out

chip chip at wiegand.org
Sat Jun 28 01:18:41 UTC 2008


Ryan Coleman wrote:
> chip wrote:
>> Ryan Coleman wrote:
>>> chip wrote:
>>>> Heheh, got that working, had to add sudo to the beginning of the 
>>>> command. Now the problem has to do with permissions. The pics are 
>>>> downloaded with the owner being root, so I have to view the pics as 
>>>> root. Whats the workaround?
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> chip wrote:
>>>>> A little more info -
>>>>> I now have gphoto2 recognizing and downloading my images, but only 
>>>>> in a terminal window. I am using XFCE and want to create a 
>>>>> shortcut on the toolbar or the desktop that will open a terminal 
>>>>> window and run the command. I have a shortcut set up but it just 
>>>>> opens a terminal window and quickly closes, I don't know what's 
>>>>> wrong, but it's not downloading the images.
>>>>> Any suggestions on how to get a shortcut to a terminal window app 
>>>>> to work on XFCE?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>> chip wrote:
>>>>>> Anyone know how to get FBSD 7-R to recognize my Canon S3 IS and 
>>>>>> download pics from it?
>>> First off, please bottom respond. Easier to follow the thread.
>>>
>>> Secondly, chown would do the job. sudo chown youruser:yourgroup * 
>>> (or file*)
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Ryan
>>>
>>>
>> So that is after loading the pics. Is there anything I can do 
>> beforehand so the whole process can be done under my normal user login?
> RTFM: 
> http://gphoto.sourceforge.net/doc/manual/permissions-serial.html#ex-serial-anybody-access 
>
>
> Really, man... RTFM :)
>
Thanks for the link. It refers to ttys0, that doesn't exist on my 
machine. I did use those instructions on acd0 which now allows me to 
play cd's without being on the root account.


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