HAL provides Canon Digital IXUS 40 but not Canon Powershot G2 to system (solved)

[Dan Nicholson]

On 6/14/06, Marcus Meissner <meissner at suse.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 06:27:28PM +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> > On Monday 12 June 2006 16:51, Matthew Munro wrote:
> > [...]
> > >
> > > And then, in `/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty'
> > > was a file called `90-gphoto-camera-policy.fdi', which
> > > contained a `ptp' reference, but nothing about
> > > `proprietary'.
> > [...]
> >
> > This files are not part of the HAL package. They come from gphoto2. You should
> > report the problem against this package.
>
> While the 90-gphoto-camera-policy.fdi is from libgphoto2,
> it should catch proprietary too.
>
> Perhaps it was replaced by your distro.

I accidentally replied to the OP off list since the hal list doesn't
munge the Reply-To.  90-gphoto-camera-policy.fdi is supplied by
Fedora.  They just fixed the bug in the past week to have it include
the "proprietary" driver cameras.  I think they use the .fdi file to
do some callouts to set device permissions.  Presumably, he couldn't
see his camera because he didn't have permissions.

--
Dan