[ILUG] Looking for help with Digital Camera Sony Cyber-Shot DCR-V1 / Fedora

[Dale Gallagher]

> Error msg: "could not initialize camera" 
> 
> USB is working fine

The following should get you going...

Make sure you have hotplug installed, then, as root, run:

/usr/lib/libgphoto2/print-usb-usermap >
/etc/hotplug/usb/usbcam.usermap

Place the following in the file /etc/hotplug/usb/usbcam

------- start /etc/hotplug/usb/usbcam
#!/bin/bash
GROUP=camera
if [ "${ACTION}" = "add" ] && [ -f "${DEVICE}" ]
then
    chmod o-rwx "${DEVICE}"
    chgrp "${GROUP}" "${DEVICE}"
    chmod g+rw "${DEVICE}"
fi
------- end /etc/hotplug/usb/usbcam

chmod 755 /etc/hotplug/usb/usbcam

Then, place the following in /etc/hotplug/usb.usermap:

------- start /etc/hotplug/usb.usermap
usb module usbcam
------- end /etc/hotplug/usb.usermap

Finally, add users who're allowed to use digital cameras
on you system to the group camera.

Voila!