Arch Linux

Description:

gphoto2 2.3.1-1 comes with gphoto.rules file for udev, which contains lines like this (idVendor and idProduct for my camera) :

ATTRS{idVendor}=="04a9", ATTRS{idProduct}=="311a", MODE="0660", GROUP="camera"

This did not work out on my computer: gphoto2 refused to access the camera unless run under root.

This forum post:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=13870

mentions similar problem and suggests using SYSFS rather than ATTRS to identify the camera device.

I added the following line to gphoto.rules for my camera:

SYSFS{idVendor}=="04a9", SYSFS{idProduct}=="311a", MODE="0660", GROUP="camera"

then the goal was achieved: user belonging to the "camera" group was able to access the camera.

Please add similar lines (s/ATTRS/SYSFS/g) to gphoto.rules file for all camera devices during instalation.

Additional info:
* package version(s)

gphoto2 2.3.1-1
libgphoto2 2.3.1-2

* config and/or log files etc.

/etc/udev/rules.d/gphoto.rules

This was observed on a x86_64 installation of Duke, but would equally affect other architectures.