Hi, I have a problem which seems like it should have come up before, but maybe it's new, because it's got a little twist.
I installed hotplug usb, and have a Argus DC1500 [essentially a pencam: it requires USB data transfer, and is not just a USB block device]. When I plug in my camera, I see in /proc/bus/usb/001 two files, one of which is the driver "001" and one of which is the camera, with a different number like "005". Now, I also installed /etc/hotplug/usb/usbcam and all that, so that it should adjust the permissions. I used the usbcam.group as my source for usbcam, and adjusted it to be executable. Then from the command line, I addgroup'd camera, and added my user name to the group camera with #adduser myuser camera. Note that usbcam.group refers to the group "camera". And now my executable usbcam does, as well. I also checked that the Argus' control variables, as referenced in /proc/bus/usb/devices, is covered by the graphics engine that runs all the permissions stuff. Finally, on KDE I set up (control panels)::(peripherals)::(camera) to include my Argus DC1500. When I type in camera:/ in the file manager URL, I get my DC1500. But when I click on it, I get one of two messages: "Cannot claim USB Bus", or sometimes "I/O problem. Cannot read file" or sometimes "Could not read file: bad parameters". Just to see if it was a permissions problem, I rather foolishly logged into KDE as root [I know, not a good idea, can wreck things], and tried to access the camera from there. No good -- it says "Cannot claim USB Bus". Maybe with time, it would give me the other errors instead. Does anyone know what is going on, and what I have to do differently? I've tried to follow the installation instructions everywhere, but I seem to be doing something wrong. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com
