[ILUG] hotplug USB

[John P. Looney]

 I'm trying to get my USB camera working The Right Way. Yeah, I've gotten
gphoto2 and gtkam to talk to it. But, now I want to play with hotplug.

 I'm confused. I did a 'gphoto2 --print-usb-usermap' and it printed gob
loads of stuff. The following line looked right;

usbcam               0x0000      0x04a9   0x304e    0x0000       0x0000 0x00         0x00            0x00            0x00            0x00 0x00               0x00000000 

 as the kernel usually prints;

Feb  7 16:07:57 bartender kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus2/2, assigned device number 18
Feb  7 16:07:57 bartender kernel: usb.c: USB device 18 (vend/prod 0x4a9/0x304e) is not claimed by any active driver.
Feb  7 16:07:57 bartender /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: ... no modules for USB product 4a9/304e/1

 when I plug it in. But, nothing happens any differently, despite
assurances from /etc/hotplug/usb/usbcam that all I needed to do was:

# Note that for this script to work, you'll need all of the following:
# a) a line in the file /etc/hotplug/usermap that corresponds to the 
#    camera you are using. You can get the correct lines for all cameras 
#    supported by gphoto2 by running "gphoto2 --print-usb-usermap".
# b) a setup using pam_console that chown's /dev/console to the 
#    user currently using the "console"
# c) a Linux kernel supporting hotplug and usbdevfs
# d) the hotplug package (http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net/)

 And, hey...that's what I've done. Anyone got this working, and could they
send me a few pointers ?

Kate

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