Sat, 05 May 2007
f-spot, gphoto, camera and nowt // at 17:55
Attempting to import photos into my Ubuntu system with f-spot, the
import window opens, but contains the text:
An error occurred in the io-library ('Bad parameters'): Could not find USB device (vendor 0x4a9, product 0x30f2). Make sure this device is connected to the computer.
Something is definitely wrong with the permissions, my account can't read the camera, but root can:
ajft@fafnir:/dev/bus/usb$ lsusb Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 005: ID 05a9:0511 OmniVision Technologies, Inc. OV511 WebCam Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 ajft@fafnir:/dev/bus/usb$ sudo lsusb Bus 005 Device 017: ID 04a9:30f2 Canon, Inc. Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 005: ID 05a9:0511 OmniVision Technologies, Inc. OV511 WebCam Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
I'm beginning to suspect that my computer system that has been through three hardware boxes and Redhat to Debian to Ubuntu upgrades has quite possibly got some oddities in the group memberships!
Solution was to add my account to the group plugdev (in
/etc/group). I wonder how many other groups user accounts get
placed into in Ubuntu that my pre-existing account isn't in?
