[plug] USB & kernel questions

[James Devenish]

In message <20031217091309.GA4657 at erdos.home>
on Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 05:13:09PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> you have the drivers either in the kernel or compiled as modules (which
> is like the case if you're using a stock Debian kernel) is to install
> the hotplug package.  It takes care of what modules to load and
> initialising the USB-related stuff.

Thanks.

> One thing that you may have issues with in the particular case of
> scanners and cameras is device "file" permissions and usbdevfs.
> Currently I'm running my script to download photos from my USB camera as
> root, but there must be a better way somewhere!

What do people do, with Linux, for similar problems such as CD/DVD
access, audio access, etc? All I've been able to suggest to people
with stock kernels is to use filesystem groups or sudo, depending.