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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