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beijingjj
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 Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 2:35 am Post subject: USB camera with digikam and /dev/pts/3 |
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I am no longer able to connect to my USB camera when I run digikam as an ordinary user. It works as root only. I noticed that when I start digikam as root, before I even connect to the camera, it creates a file /dev/pts/3 but this does not happen when I start digikam as a regular user. I believe this must be the device that is used to connect to the camera.
When I run digikam as an unprivileged user it still recognizes the camera, but just can't connect to it.
Can someone explain to me what /'dev/pts/3 is, and why it doesn't show up when I start the program as a regular user? Does this have something to do with one of the recent upgrades, perhaps the change to udev? Most importantly, how can I get it to work for my unprivileged user?
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trumee
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| Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 4:43 am Post subject: |
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As a normal user type this in a shell
| Code: | | export USB_DEVFS_PATH=/proc/bus/usb |
and then execute digikam from shell. |
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beijingjj
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| Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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This worked, thanks, but
1. Why did it work? (what does it do?)
2. How can I make it permanent? |
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kly84g
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Location: Houston
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| Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 2:51 am Post subject: |
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| beijingjj wrote: | This worked, thanks, but
1. Why did it work? (what does it do?)
2. How can I make it permanent? |
Add
| Code: | | export USB_DEVFS_PATH=/proc/bus/usb |
to your .bash_profile (assuming your SHELL is bash). |
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